My Notes - Early Childhood Education Diploma » Science for Young Children http://www.irenelaw.net My new mode of studying via blogging, my journey to get a diploma unknown to me Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:13:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Teaching Science to Young Children http://www.irenelaw.net/2009/04/20/teaching-science-to-young-children/ http://www.irenelaw.net/2009/04/20/teaching-science-to-young-children/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:03:52 +0000 admin http://www.irenelaw.net/?p=225 Who can teach Science?

  • Someone who is able to maintain classroom atmosphere.
  • Someone that have postive attitudes.
  • Someone who can nurture and willing to participates in various activities.

Teacher roles

  • Choose a focus for inquiry and ensure it’s age appropriate.
  • Prepare for the activities.
  • Ensure suitable environment for the activities.
  • Observe and assess the children engagement in the activities.

Teaching roles

  • Be a facilitator.
  • Be a catalyst.
  • Be a consultant.
  • Be a model.

Environmental roles

  • The family:
    - Respond positively to the child’s excitements
    - Encourage and motivate the child
    - Provide continuous support
  • The communities:
    - Provide resources and facilities
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  • Build self-confidence
  • Gain first hand experiences
  • Develop basic concepts
  • Increase observation skills
  • Receive opportunities to use tools, equipments and familiar materials
  • Receive aid in problem solving
  • Stimulate curiosity
  • Develop language skills

Skill children learn in Science:

  • Observation
  • Sequencing
  • Patterning
  • Counting
  • Measuring
  • Defining/Inference
  • Comparing and contrasting
  • Communicating
  • Classifying
  • Hypothesizing
  • Predicting
  • Testing/Recording
  • Experimenting/Planning investigation

Planning Science lesson:

  • Goals
  • Science ideas
  • Engage (ensure it can grab their attention)
  • Explore
  • Materials
  • Explain
  • Elaborate (how to real life)
  • Evaluate

Incorporating Science processes in classroom:

  • Set up Science center
  • Teach what you know
  • Use the surroundings
  • Be a good observer
  • Introduce new items and concepts to the group
  • Answer question honestly
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Science is:

  • A process
  • A body of knowledge and associated to the world in which we live
  • Sets of ideas
  • Sets of attitude

Early years science:

  • Cognitive development – knowledge and understanding
  • Conative development – practical aspects of the development of scientific skills
  • Affective development – emotional, social, cultural, and moral development

How children learn about science

  • Curiosity
  • Anxiety about the unexplained
  • Pleasure in discovering
  • Self-efficacy and learning

Multiple learning pathway

  • Conscious thinking – aware of doing, use of language and information
  • Unconscious thinking/implicit learning – no language involved, imagining, “pattern seeking”, usage of metaphor

Multiple Intelligences Theory

  1. Logical-mathematical
  2. Linguistic
  3. Musical/rhythmic
  4. Spatial/visual
  5. Bodily kinesthetics
  6. Interpersonal
  7. Intrapersonal
  8. Naturalist
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