50 Methods in Science
50 Methods in Science
Methods in Science
Hands on Learning
This is the best teaching method invented so far that
involves the active participation of students to
experience scientific concepts than to just have an
audience view.
Schools are promoting the use of low cost apparatus in
classrooms to helps students to have hands on learning
experience.
Story Telling
Students love to hear stories and therefore, storytelling is one
of the best ways to get their attention in class.
Teacher can explain the facts of biology or the laws of physics
in the form of stories. This is a mental organizer as human
brains can remember stories than just plain facts. Some
teachers present the whole concept as a story while some
others use a story to open and end the session.
Role Play
This innovative method is becoming an integral part of science
education as students can intellectually and physically involve
through activities while learning a new concept.
Activities can be organized in classroom sessions where a
group of students can take the role of atoms or molecules to
study a chemical reaction or they can represent a scientist
group to demonstrate the particular scientist’s laws.
Sports Based Learning
This is an interesting approach to learn problem solving in
physics or a step wise method to study complex chemical
reactions.
There are many virtual science labs available online for free and
therefore, this approach almost gives hands on experience of
learning the subject without much expense.
Detailed diagrams, illustrations or close up pictures allow
students to virtually get inside a plant or animal part without
actually doing it. Dissections in biology can be studied
thoughtfully with a virtual hands-on sensation without the
problem of odor and similarly, experiment a chemical reaction
without burns.
Word walls
In this method, students are given the opportunity to create context and
explore ideas from them. They interact with surroundings, hold
conversations with subject experts, make relevant notes and attempt to
modify the nearby objects.
The context can be understood in detail by exploring the world around. This
gradually helps them to interpret new information from the context and
relate to what they already know.
Computational thinking