Teaching Science in Early Childhood Classrooms (Pre K-3)
Teaching Science in Early Childhood Classrooms (Pre K-3)
Develop the pedagogical knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to teach science to young children of various ages, abilities, backgrounds, and exceptionalities.
| Hours | 3.0 Credit, 3.0 Lecture, 0.0 Lab |
| Prerequisites | Concurrent enrollment in ECE 441 and 442. |
| Taught | Fall, Winter |
| Programs | Containing ECE 446 |
Course Outcomes:
ECE 446 Course Outcomes
Teacher candidates will:
- evaluate their personal dispositions, development, and growth toward becoming a teacher of science.
- identify and describe purposes for teaching science in K-3 classrooms.
- explain what science is and how young children learn science, including the knowledge and reasoning skills students must acquire to become proficient in science.
- recognize the practices, crosscutting concepts, and core ideas of science and engineering and how they influence science instruction in K-3 classrooms.
- plan for science instruction for children of various ages, abilities, backgrounds, and exceptionalities, including how to (a) identify appropriate science content from national standards and state core curricula; (b) apply a variety of appropriate teaching methods and strategies to support science learning; (c) integrate science with other disciplines across the early childhood curriculum; and (d) employ appropriate assessment methods and strategies.