ERIC Number: EJ921500
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Sep
Pages: 4
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ISSN: ISSN-0047-231X
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Thinking outside the Kit: Building Preservice Science Teachers' Inquiry Skills with an Experiment that Doesn't Go as Planned
Baumgartner, Erin
Journal of College Science Teaching, v40 n1 p54-57 Sep 2010
Preservice preparation courses for elementary teachers of science can provide opportunities to build pedagogical content knowledge. One common concern of preservice teachers is how to cope with a preplanned lesson that does not proceed as planned. Providing opportunities for preservice teachers to experience the unexpected actually immerses them in creative problem solving that is a hallmark of scientific investigation. This lesson in a preservice science methods course requires future teachers to build problem-solving skills through scientific inquiry as they cope with a type of science-kit activity in which the experiment does not go as planned. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Curriculum, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Scientific Literacy, Science Instruction, Science Education, Higher Education, Inquiry, Experiments, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Problem Solving, Scientific Methodology, Science Curriculum, Learning Modules, Instructional Materials, Hands on Science, Science Process Skills
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Oregon
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