MSE349 HISTORY AND NATURE OF SCIENCE
| Course Code: | 4600349 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 4.0 |
| Department: | Mathematics and Science Education |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
At the end of the semester, preservice science teachers should be able to:
- Comprehend the importance of scientific literacy
- Show awareness for characteristics of scientifically literate individual
- Apply domains of science critical in developing scientific literacy.
- Analyze the characteristics of scientific knowledge
- Show awareness for interaction of science with technology, environment and society
- Aware of commonly held ideas about the nature of science
- Appreciate the role of history and philosophy of science in understanding science concepts
- Judge the quality of claims made in media
Course Content
Scientific literacy; nature of science; characteristics of scientific knowledge; myths of science; history and philosophy of science; historical development of scientific knowledge; interaction of science with technology, environment and society. Nature of science instruction; students conceptions of nature of science; historical approach to understanding of nature of science; teaching science through history and nature of science; activities for teaching the nature of science; activities that promote understandings of the nature of science; nature of science in science textbooks and in science curriculum.
Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the semester, preservice science teachers should be able to:
- distinguish science from pseudoscience
- participate in decision making processes
- develop better understandings of nature of science
- propose activities facilitating teaching and learning nature of science
- develop a science lesson depending on history and nature of science approach.
- delivers lesson on nature and history of science
- evaluate the news in media from a scientific perspective