COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DEVELOPING SCIENCE ACTIVITIES IN PHYSICS EDUCATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Physics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SERAP ÇALIŞKAN

Offered to

Physics Teacher Education

Course Objective

The first objective of the course is to implement science activities utilized classroom environment to science class and the second objective is to develop science activities with an innovative approach for the use of in and out of the science class

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Implementing science activities utilized in the classroom environment to different educational sources and design
2   conception of innovative science activities
3   to design the teaching of experimental activity
4   to develop the ability to make the experimental activity
5   to develop innovative thinking skills

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Importance of the science activities in physics teaching
2 Access to the indoor and outdoor science activities available written and on-line resources.
3 Exemplar experimental activities adapted for teaching of a topic /concept.
4 Practice with exemplar experimental activities
5 Main components in the design of experimental activities
6 Deciding to the topic for experimental activities and Constructing a problem
7 Reviewing the literature and searching the related activities for the solution of the problem
8 General review, course evaluation
9 Preparation phase-in the process of experimental activities
10 The development phase I- in the process of experimental activities
11 The development phase II- in the process of experimental activities
12 The test phase- in the process of experimental activities
13 Indoor and outdoor practice and follow-up evaluation phase- in the process of experimental activities.
14 The implementation of the experimental activities to different learning environments
15 Final exam (Experimental activity assessment) and feedback

Recomended or Required Reading

Physics Education: http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9120
European Journal of Physics: http://iopscience.iop.org/0143-0807
The Physics Teacher: http://tpt.aapt.org/
The American Journal of Physics: http://ajp.aapt.org/
Science Activities: Classroom projects and curriculum ideas http://heldref.org/pubs/sa/manuscripts.html
Science Scope: Middle School Science Classroom: http://www.nsta.org/middleschool/
Science &Children: Elementary Science Classroom : http://www.nsta.org/elementaryschool/
Journal of College Science Teaching: College Science Classroom: http://www.nsta.org/college/ lid=pub

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Cooperative (active) learning, discussing, making projects

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRJ PROJECT
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PRS PRESENTATION
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRJ * 0.40 + ASG * 0.40 + PRS * 0.20


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Implementing a science activity from a published source/journal to classroom environment (%20), develop an inovative activity as project (40%), homeworks (40%)

Assessment Criteria

Implementing a science activity from a published source/journal to classroom environment (%20), develop an inovative activity as project (40%), homeworks (40%)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance to the course is important

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

kemal.yurumezoglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Out of course in weekday

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Project Preparation 1 50 50
Lab Preparation 4 7 28
Project Assignment 1 2 2
Project Final Presentation 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 196

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.1535444333
LO.25354544333
LO.3535544433
LO.45334
LO.5435544

CONTACT INFORMATION
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