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EDU256: Physics Methods
This Course Guide tells you briefly what the course is about, what course materials you will be using and how you can work your way through these materials. It suggests some general guidelines for the amount of time you are likely to spend on each unit of the course in order to complete it successfully. It also gives you some guidance on your tutor – marked assignments. Details of information on tutor – marked assignments is found in the separate Assignment File, which will be available to you.
What Will You Learn?
This course is to bring to consciousness of those to be involved in physics teaching at senior secondary level. So the overall aim of EDU 244 (Science Methods II) physics is to introduce you to some of the rudiments of physics teaching. You will as well learn about the meaning of science, historical development of science education in Nigeria and the nature of science; science education curriculum reforms at both primary and secondary school levels and psychological theories of learning and its implications for science teaching.
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On successful completion of the course, you should be able to:
1. explain the meaning of science and the rationale of school science teaching and learning
2. explain the nature of science
3. discuss the history of science
4. trace the historical development of science education in Nigeria from missionaries to the colonial government and to post independence period
5. advance reasons for science education curriculum reforms in both Nigeria and outside Nigeria.
6. discuss the contributions of some cognitive psychologists such as Ausubel, Brunner, Gagne, and Piaget to science teaching and their implication for science teaching
7. outline the methods of teaching physics
8. describe the various resources for teaching physic
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