EDU 688 Teaching Environmental Science
The course will engage participants in guided inquiry-based learning practices and effective research-based teaching strategies. Through lectures, discussions, and fieldwork, candidates with be provided with the necessary content to successfully teach ecology and environmental science at the elementary school level. Instructors will also model "best practices" in the teaching of elementary science to provide participants with an increased awareness and knowledge of successful teaching pedagogies. Explores the use of performance-based assessment models. Focuses on two research based elementary science programs-FOSS (Full Option Science System) and STC (Science and Technology for Children).