{"id":491,"date":"2022-04-14T21:11:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T19:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2022-05-18T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T07:32:15","slug":"5-facts-in-teaching-science-in-primary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/en\/5-facts-in-teaching-science-in-primary-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Facts in Teaching Science in Primary Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In order for you to understand why you have to teach science to the primary school pupils, you need to study the goals for science education<\/a> in this country. Teaching science in primary school is a very delicate issue because children start encountering formal science learning at this level. You need to acquaint yourself to some of the documents that talk about primary science education in Zambia such as Educating our future (policy document on education) and the Zambia Basic Education Syllabus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE RATIONALE OF TEACHING SCIENCE IN PRIMARY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching <\/strong>science <\/strong>in primary <\/strong>, although it does obviously include content, is equally about establishing attitudes and working practices, which will first catch and then nurture the germinal concepts of learners. It gives the learners clear understanding of basic concepts, enabling them to acquire capacity to grasp more intricate science undertakings. Through this approach, they become more specific, more a meticulous, laterally thinking and persevering. Whole process is an effort to create a more scientifically literate community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teachers place a significant imprint in the minds of the learners under their care and their worldview. The views of the science teachers shape their teaching approaches<\/a> in class. The teaching approaches in turn influence the learners\u2019 views and perceptions, their attitudes, values and interest in science. Science educators have the task of preparing students for multiple roles and responsibilities in the society including managing naturally occurring scientific problems in a thoughtful and reasonably accurate way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bases and frameworks of the goals and objective of science education for science teachers and curriculum designers are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. a)Science has an intrinsic value as a body of accumulated knowledge and as a way of finding out about the world.<\/li>
  2. b)Learning science is a means of helping individuals to fulfil their own personal potential.<\/li>
  3. c)Learning science helps the individual to learn to live in a society and both to contribute to it and benefit from it.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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