Science has become an essential and integral part of our life. Without the knowledge of basic principles, concepts, theories, and laws of science one cannot understand and explain a number of daily-life processes and many phenomena which one observes and experiences in one’s life. Hence a basic knowledge about the fundamentals of science has become a necessity of everyone. Furthermore, science is not only a knowledge rather it is an attitude towards nature I a way of thinking as well as a way of life. Keeping this in view, science has been given the status of a compulsory subject in any education system in the form of “general science”. So it is being taught even to the students of arts, literature, and social sciences. It is due to this large scale demand of science teaching that we need a large number of science teachers. These science teachers must be equipped with in-depth knowledge with full understanding and well-developed skills to communicate (teach) the concepts, principles, theories, and laws of science at the elementary and secondary levels.

Learning Outcomes

After the completion of this course, the students will be able to:

Understand and apply the concepts of science in daily life.

• Develop scientific thinking and scientific attitude among their students
• Plan, organize and teach a lesson on a given topic of science in the light of theory and

research in science education

• Understand recent trends and issues in methods and techniques of teaching science at

elementary and secondary level

• Comprehend and teach theories, Laws and principles of science effectively upto

secondary level

• Understand and apply the scientific method in daily life
• Understand and apply various methods and techniques for teaching concepts of

science

• Develop scientific thinking and scientific attitude among their students
• Select an appropriate method or technique for teaching a given topic of science by

developing and arranging necessary materials and conditions

• Plan organize and teach a lesson on a given topic of science in the light of theories

and research in science education

• Understand recent trends and issues in methods and techniques of teaching science at

elementary and secondary levels

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