Teaching Science is not taught without principles. Every science teacher must know all of these to guide them as they teach

1. Theories, Approaches,
Guiding Principles and
Methods of Teaching
Science
Jade Erickson Sale
Discussant 

2. Objectives
1. Describe educational theories on
which science teaching is grounded
2. Explain at least three guiding
principles in the teaching of Science
3. Cite the implications of these
educational theories to the teaching
of science

3. Introduction
Bandura (1986)
“Learning can occur
through observation
or direct instruction.”

4. MODEL!
OBSERVE!

6. The Learning Styles of
students are different.

7. Brain Based Learning Theory
1. The Brain is a parallel processor.
2. The search for meaning is innate.
3. The search for meaning occurs
through “patterning”
4. Emotions are critical to patterning
5. Learning is enhanced by a challenge
and inhibited by a threat.

8. Experiential Learning

9. Situated Learning

11. Reflective Learning

12. Discovery Learning
Once upon a time, in one morning
Ecology class with Ma’am Carbonell…

13. Cooperative Learning
Nothing is better
than a work done by
groups
~Jade

14. TIPS IN THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE
1. Create Positive Atmosphere
2. Develop Mastery and
Understanding of your topic
3. Extend Learning in Real-world
Situations

15. Guiding Principles
1. Constructivist Principle
2. Discovery Principle
3. Brain-based Principle
4. Collaborative Principle
5. Considering Multiple
Intelligences

16. TEACHING SCIENCE
• Brain based
• Experiential
• Situated
• Discovery
• Cooperative
TIPSTheories Involved Principles
• Positive
Atmosphere
• Mastery and
Understanding
• Learn
Real-world
Situations
• Constructivist
• Discovery
• Brain-based
• Collaborative
• Multiple
Intelligences

17. “The important thing about science is NOT to
OBTAIN too much NEW FACTS, but to discover
NEW WAYS of THINKING ABOUT THEM”
~Sir William Bragg
1915 Nobel Prize winner in Physics

18. “If I can bring my students to
see the kind of thing that I see,
then I’ll know they understand
the same science that I do.”
~Sir Paul Groves