Teaching Middle School Life Science

Welcome to your multimedia life science course! Enhance the way you learn and teach science, using exploration, discovery, and rich-media resources.

This course focuses on three elements: content knowledge, inquiry and other teaching strategies, and use of multimedia in teaching and learning. Course goals include:

• developing content knowledge about topics taught at the middle school level;
• understanding inquiry-based learning models;
• exploring a range of effective teaching methodologies and strategies;
• drawing on a media-rich learning environment that you can use with your students;
• using classroom-practice videos to model ways of teaching beyond the textbook; and
• understanding and utilizing the scientific process.