Teaching Middle School Physical Science

Welcome to your multimedia physical science course! Hands-on exploration and discovery will enhance the way you learn and teach science.

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 energy transfer, light and waves, heat transfer, and density and solubility.;
• introducing inquiry-based learning models;
• providing a range of effective teaching methodologies and strategies for use in teaching science concepts;
• introducing a media-rich learning environment to use with students;
• providing models to illustrate ways to teach beyond the textbook; and
• understanding and utilizing the scientific process.