Resource materials in physical science

1. RESOURCE MATERIALS
Presented by,
Arsha Ramesh
Roll.no.31
Physical Science
DTE.Dharmasala

2. RESOURCE MATERIALS
Any tool that helps teachers to
teach and students to learn

3. RESOURCE MATERIALS IN PHYSICAL
SCIENCE
•TEXT BOOK
•HANDBOOK
•WORKBOOK
•SUPPLEMENTARY READER
•REFERENCE BOOK

4. 1.TEXTBOOK
•Printed materials that play vital role
in teaching & learning
•Widely used instructional materials
•Economical device for teachers &
students
•Designed for students

5. Use of the textbook
 Ready source of authoritative information
 Helps to form correct understanding of
basic
concepts
 Supplements & enriches classroom
learning
 Helps students to do home assignments
 Helps in systematic & speedy revision of
the lesson
 Stimulates reflective thinking among
students
 Cultivates scientific attitude among
students

6. Characteristics of good
textbook
 Content
 Organization
 Literacy style & vocabulary
 Illustrations
 Teaching aids
 Mechanical appearance

7. VOGEL’S criteria for selection
of textbook
Louise. F. Vogel developed
an evaluation scale for
selecting good science
textbook.

8. are
1. Qualification of the author
2. Organization
3. Content
4. Presentation of materials
5. Accuracy
6. Readability
7. Adaptability
8. Teaching aids
9. Illustrations
10. Appearance

9. 2. HANDBOOK
 Resource material for
teachers
 Excellent reference
material for effective
teaching

10. Handbook contains…
Summaries of chapters
Conceptual development of topic
List of instructional objectives
Explanation of significant technical terms
Learning activities
Teaching aids to be used
Assignments
Evaluation tools
Provision for conducting seminars ,projects
& other co-curricular activities

11. Advantages of Handbooks
1. Equips the teacher with
sufficient knowledge
2. Provides suitable learning
experience
3. Helps to adopt appropriate
teaching methods &
approaches
4. Helps to evaluate learning

12. Disadvantage of Handbook
 Not easily available to all
teachers

13. 3.workbook
 A practice material for pupil
 Pupil practices what they have
learned with the help of workbook

14. workbook
Key to
exercises
Different
exercises
Summary of
chapters
Suggestion
for
assignments

15. Advantages of workbook
 Supplements classroom learning
 Promote self learning & self
assessment
 Reinforces learning
 Promote scientific thinking
 Can be used to evaluate pupil

16. Disadvantage of workbook
 Relatively inflexible
 Little provision for the inclusion of
new materials
 Little opportunity to develop special
interest & talents
 Deny pupil any incentive to do
independent work

17. Eg. for workbook
Workbook
for English
Workbook
for
Mathematics
Workbook
for I.T

18. A
worksheet…

19. 4. Supplementary readers
Reading extra books in science help the student
to develop their maximum potentials

20. Criteria for selection
Should be accurate & authoritative
Should be fair & sincere in presenting
controversial topics
Should have good literacy standard

21. Advantages
Stimulates further reading
Suggests further problems
Encourages thinking & discussion
Develop interest towards applied
aspects of science
Develop literacy tastes

22. Supplementary periodicals for
science students
Science Reporter
Science today
Vignanakairali
Eureka
Junior Science Digest

23. 5. REFERENCE BOOK
Reference books are effective aids to
learning
Students must be given training in the
use of reference book
It should be readily available
It should be easily comprehensible

24. Advantages of reference
book
Supplements classroom learning
Insists self study habits in pupil
Helps to workout assignments

27. Reference
1. Science education, Theoretical
Bases of Teaching& Pedagogical
Analysis, Dr. T.K. Mathew, Dr. T. M.
Mollykutty.
2. Science Education, Methodology of
Teaching and Pedagogical Analysis,
Dr. K. Sivarajan, Prof. A. Faziluddin.
3. Wikipedia