About the Book

Science Teaching

Prosperity of a nation is contingent upon the values and scientific knowledge, attitudes, processes as well as creativity of its future citizens. This requires effective teaching and learning of science. This book is treasure of ideas to help student-teachers build their capacity for planning, developing, executing, and evaluating curricular and co-curricular learning activities for science students. It provides useful information about aims and objectives, curriculum construction, methods of teaching, evaluation strategies, and organization of co-curricular activities. This book will serve the purpose of science teachers and teacher-trainers besides the policy-planners. CONTENTS: (1)Introduction (2)Understanding the Teaching of Science (3)Teaching Science During the Early Childhood Years (4)Teaching Methods.