Instructional materials play an important role in science education by enriching the learning process and making it more meaningful. They include both print materials like textbooks and workbooks as well as non-print items like real objects, pictures, videos, and technology. Effective instructional materials provide core information to engage students, and should be carefully selected based on content breadth and depth to optimize learning. Some examples of materials discussed are writing boards, printed texts, pictures, real objects, graphic organizers, dioramas, bulletin boards, and technology tools like PowerPoint, videos, and overhead projectors.

1. Instructional Material
Development for Science
Education & Technology in
Elementary Science
Education

2. Instructional materials play an
important role in the teaching-learning
process. Instruction is improved and
learning is enriched and become more
meaningful with the use of modern
instructional methods and materials..

3. Instructional materials print and
non-print items that are related to
impact information to students in
the educational process.
(Effiong & Igiri, 2015).

4. Instructional materials
provide the core
information that
students will experience,
learn, and apply during a
course. They hold the
power to either engage
or demotivate students.
Therefore, such materials
must be carefully planned,
selected, organized, refined,
and used in a course for the
maximum effect. The
planning and selection of
instructional materials should
take into consideration both
the breadth and depth of
content so that student
learning is optimized.

5. Instructional materials are defined as resources
that organize and support instruction, such as
textbooks, tasks, and supplementary resources
(adapted from Remillard & Heck, 2014).
It refers to the human and non-human materials and
facilities that can be used to ease, encourage,
improve and promote teaching and learning
activities.

6. Roles In Teaching And Learning
01 They promote meaningful communication and effective learning;
02 They ensure better retention, thus making learning more permanent;
03 They help to overcome the limited classroom by making the
inaccessible accessible;
They provide a common experience upon which later learning can
be developed;
04

7. Different Types of
Instructional
Materials for
Science Education

8. Writing Board
⮚ Can display information written with chalk
(chalkboard or blackboard) or special pens
(whiteboard).
⮚It is a convenient writing area where illustrations can
instantly be drawn even during a discussion. An eraser
can easily keep it clean and ready for continuous use.

9. Printed Materials
⮚ Consists of all written material, and is
printed with text or graphics as a medium
for communicating information.
⮚Type of educational material used by most
teachers.

10. Magazines
Textbooks
Reference
Books
2
Workbooks
4
Examples of Printed Materials
1
3

11. Pictures and Pictorial Materials
Is a visual representation as
by photography or painting.
Makes it easier for the
learners to understand what
something really looks like,
instead of mentally
visualizing and imagining the
lesson or the subject matter.
 Photographs
 Drawing
 Story Boards
 Post Cards
Examples:
Pictures and Pictorial

12. Realia/Real Object
 Solid, physical objects that can
be brought into a classroom to
be examined.

13. Graphic Organizers
⮚ A graphic organizer visually represents ideas,
concepts, and relationships between various
components.
⮚A graphic organizer is a strategy for science instruction
that teachers can use to help students record information
from direct observation as well as from reading in order
to create a descriptive model of an organism or a
phenomenon.

14. Dioramas
 include models, mock up
objects, specimens,
laboratories, simulation and
games (toys). They are non-
projected materials.
Characteristically, they have
length, width, height, hence
they are called 3 dimensional.

15. Dioramas
 They usually display a
historical time period, a
nature scene, or a
fictional situation.
 It will make the classroom
be creative and
innovative.

16. Bulletin Boards
⮚ A bulletin board is usually stationary on a
wall or it can be movable. The surface is
made of cork or soft wall boards for
attachment of display items. Its contents
may be used for the duration of unit being
studied. The learning materials may be
pictures, newspaper clippings, real objects
or drawings.

17. Using
Technology in
Elementary
Science
Education

18.  The science classroom provides a perfect environment to help
students develop the technological knowledge and skills they will
need for the rest of their lives. Learning how to operate machines used
for science experiments will help future mechanical engineers in their
pursuits.
 An architect will employ modeling software similar to modeling
programs used to design scientific experiments. And beyond future
employment opportunities, these forms of literacy will help students
make informed decisions as both consumers and global citizens.
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19. Teachers can also use technology
to engage and instruct students
with learning or cognitive
disabilities.
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20. Science teachers can use many modern technologies
to great effect in the classroom. Computer software
and tablet apps have obvious applications in
classroom activities, but the technologies inherent in
automated cameras, LCDs and experiment monitoring
systems can also aid in science education.
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21. PowerPoint Presentation
-The most common and useful ,
accessible way to create and present
visual aids.
-Easy to create colorful, attractive
designs using the standard templates
and themes; easy to modify compared
to other visual aids, such as charts, and
easy to drag and drop slides to re-order
presentation.

22. & Visual Resources
- Taught by the use of other sensory
organs such as hearing and seeing.
- Which include the television, video
recording motion pictures with
sound tracks, slide and films trips
projection with sound tapes, films and
multimedia.
Sounds

23. Audio recording
-Audio recording include tapes, records
and compact discs. Tapes may be in the
form of teacher- recorded, student
recorded or ready-made tapes that are
commercially produced. Audio media is
used by the teacher in connection with
speech rehearsals, drama, musical
presentation, radio and television
broadcasting.

24. Overhead Transparencies and Overhead
Projector (OHP)
-By using the overhead projector, a
transparency will can show pictures,
diagrams and sketches at a time
when they are needed in a discussion.
Step-by-step instruction,
enumerations or any sequenced
illustration can easily be presented
through transparencies.

25. Video/Films
-Films that address topics that children
study in school are just as effective as
other teaching materials. They see the
world from another perspective and
provide teachers with a new tool to
enrich their lessons. Integrating and
using films in the classroom stimulate
young children's imagination and
artistic awareness.

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