COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY APPLICATIONS I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SNÖ 2009 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY APPLICATIONS I COMPULSORY 0 2 0 3

Offered By

Elementary Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR AYFER KOCABAŞ

Offered to

Elementary Teacher Education
Elementary Teacher Education

Course Objective

Enabling students to learn by living and doing and carrying all the activities in Science and Technology course in the first stage of the primary education.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to know about science
2   Being able to have of knowledge about laboratory in science education
3   Being able to use scientific process skills.
4   Being able to have of knowledge of the types of experiments and being able to design experiments for different age groups.
5   Being able to to know how to assess the experimental skills

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to course: Introduction of course to the students, discussion of students views about course gains.
2 Definition of science: The aim of the science education, the aim of the lab studies in science education.
3 Introduction to science curriculum,the content of science curriculum, the importance of lab studies in science curriculum.
4 Classification of the experiments regarding their purposes.
5 Defination and classification of the scientific process skills.
6 Production of the problem.
7 Defining variables.
8 Midterm exam
9 Doing controlled-experiments.
10 Measurement skillls in experimental studies.
11 Measurement skillls in experimental studies.
12 Designing of the experiments with given problems .
13 Designing of the experiments with given problems.
14 Designing of the experiments with given problems
15 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

1.Bağcı-Kılıç, G. (2006), Ilköğretim bilim öğretimi. Morpa: Istanbul,
2.Çepni, S. (ed). (2007), Fen ve teknoloji laboratuar uygulamaları I . Trabzon.
3. Çepni, S. (ed). (2007), Fen ve teknoloji laboratuar uygulamaları II . Trabzon.
4. Ergin, Ö., Şahin-Pekmez, E. and Öngel-Erdal, S. (2005), `Deney yoluyla fen öğretimi . Izmir.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, discussion, case studies, group work

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 +FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Tutorials 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 5 3 15
Preparation for final exam 5 3 15
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 71

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18PO.19
LO.122433
LO.24543
LO.34433
LO.45
LO.535