SSME403 LAB.EXPERIMENTS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
| Course Code: | 4200403 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.5 |
| Department: | Secondary Science and Mathematics Educ. |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Lecturer Dr. UFUK YILDIRIM |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, the student will learn:
- about the role of experiments in science teaching
- different kind of experiments
- which experiments to carry out in secondary schools
Course Content
Laboratory Experiments in Science Education. Improvement of skills in setting up experiments in Physics, Chemistry and Biology for secondary schools. Theory of the experiments. Data gathering and evaluation. Interpretations of possible unexpected results. Daily life applications of scientific principles relevant to experiments
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, students will be able to;
- Discuss the role of experiments in science and science teaching
- Explain different types of experiments
- Recognize the tools used in these experiments
- Conduct experiments
- Use measurement tools properly
- Make careful measeruments
- Record data appropriately
- Plot appropriate graph from the data
- Analyze the data
- Discuss questions to be asked during experiments
- Write experiment report
- Design an experiment