COOLSCI01 - Resources for Science Education - 2020 English
TISSx-COOL
About This Resource
We are offering these Connected Open Online Learning (COOL) resources to enable student-teachers and teacher educators to stay connected to your learning. Please stay safe and use these COOL resources for TE and continue with your professional education during this COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period.You can use the url tissx.tiss.edu or the tissx android app.
We have mapped the resources onto the BEd Curriculum Framework of NCTE. (See the table below).
We hope you will find these resources useful. We also invite you to enrol in our online modular certificate courses when they are announced.
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These Science Education resources will provide you with understanding, skills and strategies to teach Science. They will help you to think deeply about the nature of science and its implications for science education, the importance of experimentation and argumentation in science education, findings from educational psychology and its relevance to science pedagogy, issues around inclusivity, particularly gender bias which is common in the context of science education and some new pedagogic techniques such as the use of ICT in science education. We will also discuss the aims of science education, i.e. what do we want to achieve at the end. Hope this broad perspective on science education will help you to reflect on your teaching practices and change some of them if necessary.
| Sr.No. | NCTE B.Ed. Topics | COOL Science Education Resource Mapping |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nature of science | Unit 2: Nature of Science
Session 1: What is science - part 1 Session 2: History of science - A story Session 3: What is science - part 2 Unit 3: Role of Argumentation and Experimentation Session 1: Role of Experimentation in Science Session 2: Importance of Argumentation in Science |
| 2 | Science as a school subject | Resources will be offered shortly |
| 3 | Aims of science education | Unit 5: Objectives of Science Education
Session 1: Aims of science education |
| 4 | Pedagogical approaches in science education | Unit 4: Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Session 1: Alternative conceptions Session 2: Use of Information and Communication Technology in Science Education Unit 5: Objectives of Science Education Session 2: Science for All |
| 5 | Students' ideas in science | Unit 4: Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Session 1: Alternative conceptions |
| 6 | Revisiting science concepts | Unit 1A : TPD material for 'Atomic Structure' Module
Unit 1B: TPD material for ‘Basic Astronomy' Module Unit 1C: TPD material for ‘Ecosystem' Module Unit 1D: TPD material for ‘Health and Disease’ Module Unit 1E: TPD material for ’Sound' Module Unit 1F : TPD material for 'Understanding Motion' Module |
| 7 | Situating science concepts in the curriculum | Resources will be offered shortly |
| 8 | Revisiting learning theories | Resources will be offered shortly |
| 9 | Teaching-learning processes in the classroom | Resources will be offered shortly |
| 10 | Assessments in science | Resources will be offered shortly |
| 11 | Science and Society | Unit 5: Objectives of Science Education
Session 2: Science for All Session 3: Science and Society |
These resources are a part of the modular courses of the Post Graduate Certificate for Reflective Teaching with ICT (RTICT), and have been offered by TISS to over 2000 teachers. These resources were developed as a part of the Connected Learning Initiative CLIx.tiss.edu an initiative seeded by the Tata Trusts and led by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA; Winner of the King Hamad Prize for Excellence in the Use of ICTs in Education (2018). CLIxOER.tiss.edu has several modules, simulations and tools relating to school science, mathematics and English learning.
TISS-COOL is supported by Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and grants from the Tata Trusts and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching.
Resource Staff
Dr. Shamin Padalkar
Rafikh Shaikh
