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Science Processes
Teachers must know
Major Science Education Events
Ways of teaching
Teaching Vocabulary
100
Using your senses to describe something.
What is observation?
100
The topics elementary teachers need to know to teach science.
What is content?
100
The Soviet space satellite that spurred a push for science in schools in the United States.
What is Sputnik?
100
When students do experiments to learn about science, rather than just reading about them.
What is hands-on teaching?
100
When a lesson uses skills and/or concepts from more than one content area.
What is multidisciplinary?
200
Looking for common patterns among items.
What is classifying.
200
Being able to measure using a ruler, set up an experiment, weigh, etc.
What are scientific skills?
200
When Jerome Bruner, Robert Gagne, B. F. Skinner, and others came together to discuss how to change science education.
What is the Wood Hole conference?
200
The teacher is a helper rather than a director.
What is a facilitator?
200
When two or more unlike things are compared for the purpose of creating understanding.
What is metaphor?
300
Making a guess about what will happen.
What is predicting.
300
Asking questions and setting up experiments to test things out.
What is scientific inquiry?
300
When teaching science shifted from talking about science to doing science during the 1960s.
What is Hands-On Science?
300
When the teacher allows students to give ideas and provide reasoning; rather than looking for one specific answer.
What is open-ended questioning?
300
The biological study of the interaction of organisms with other organisms and/or their environment.
What is ecology?
400
Using collected information to try understand something.
What is interpreting data.
400
Being able to join ideas across different content.
What are conceptual connections?
400
International testing that is used to compare student preparation in science.
What is NAEP or TIMSS?
400
The sequence of engagement, exploration, explanation, elaboration, and evaluation.
What is the 5-E learning cycle?
400
Problem, hypothesis, experimentation, observation, data collection and conclusion.
What is scientific method?
500
Testing out your ideas in a controlled way.
What is experimenting.
500
When you use science to help solve problems in the world.
What are personal and societal issues?
500
A process-oriented inquiry method of teaching science hands on, that was developed by Dr. Robert Karplus.
What is the Science Curriculum Improvement Study?
500
It leads to this when teachers use constructivism so that students must develop their own understandings.
What is ownership?
500
The art and science of teaching.
What is pedagogy?