CRIN 326B Met/Mat In Teaching Sci
326. EARLY CHILDHOOD SCIENCE
METHODS (Credit, 3 hours). This course
includes at least 15 hours of field experiences. The
goals of this course are to: 1) familiarize teacher
candidates with the principles and practices that
have proven to be effective in facilitating the learning
of science on the part of all students; 2) enable
teacher candidates to develop the inquiry-based
process skills that their students need in order to
learn and use sciences; 3) enable teacher candidates
to engage students in the processes that will
result in the acquisition and application of science
content knowledge applicable to grade PK- 3; 4)
enable teacher candidates to develop scientific attitudes
and values on the part of their students; and
5) heighten the awareness on the part of teacher
candidates that science is a human enterprise to
which all cultures have contributed.