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- Title
SOME POINTS TO BE CONSIDERED IN TEACHING ELEMENTARY SCIENCE.
- Authors
Curtis, Francis D.
- Abstract
The article focuses on issues related to teaching elementary science. The primary objective of many courses of science involves teaching of factual information. The ability of the pupils to score well in tests covering the factual information related to the course determine the success of a teacher. After exams the pupils hardly remember such factual information. This unfruitful objective of fact-teaching dominates science teaching at the junior and the senior-high-school levels. Use of the deductive method by teachers for teaching principles can lead to pupils just memorizing the statements of principles without really understanding the statements. The teaching of principles by deductive method is most common in classes of physics, general science, chemistry and biology. The inductive method enables facts gathered in the solution of definite new problems to be combined into generalizations, statements or principles which can be later applied in real-life situations using deductive method.
- Subjects
SCIENCE education (Elementary); INSTRUCTIONAL systems; LEARNING; SCHOOL children; TEACHERS; PHYSICS; REASONING; GENERALIZATION; BIOLOGY
- Publication
Science Education, 1940, Vol 24, Issue 3, p121
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730240302