Social and Natural Sciences Teaching

Code: PED14118M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

The curricular unit aims to equip the future teacher/educator to start the adventure for science with children, being also an open space for reflection and action proposals. It seeks to meet the multiple interactions between physical and social sciences, society, technology and the environment.

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes - Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes promover sociedades pacíficas e inclusivas par ao desenvolvimento sustentável, proporcionar o acesso à justiça para todos e construir instituições eficazes, responsáveis
e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

Learning Goals

To assess the role of Natural and Social Sciences in education for all and throughout life, aiming at the scientific literacy of all citizens and in the global education of children.
To analyze the curricular guidelines for Pre-school Education and the program of the 1st cycle of Basic Education.
To know, justify and justify curricular, pedagogical and didactic currents that promote the interrelationship between sciences and technological, social, cultural and environmental issues.
To know a diverse set of teaching methods and techniques, suitable for children's learning. To mobilize knowledge and skills in the elaboration of didactic plans within the scope of Knowledge of the World and Environment Study.
To identify problems in the Natural and Social Sciences, which may be related to the children's universe.
To know and use different ways of assessing knowledge, skills and attitudes within the scope of Natural and Social Sciences.

1. Purposes of the areas of Knowledge of the World and Environment Study.
1.1. Why to teach science to pre-school and elementary school children? Science education and citizenship: implications for lifelong learning;
1.2. Critical analysis of the proposals and the curricular structure of the area of Knowledge of the World and Study of the Environment.
2. From teacher science to the construction of students' knowledge.
2.1. Children's previous conceptions and language in learning.
2.2. Teaching science to pre-school and primary school children
2.3. Development of attitudes of experimental practices.
2.4. To assess students' learning.
3. Purposes of scientific, citizen and responsible education.
3.1. The interrelationships between Science, Technology, Society and the Environment.
3.2. Environmental and heritage education and sustainable development.
3.3. Addressing gender issues in childhood.
4. Didactic approach to themes of Knowledge of the World and Environment Study.

Teaching Methods

The methodologies favor the participation of students in classes, through debate, reasoned criticism and reflective intervention, contributing to the consolidation of their knowledge and their mobilization. We will highlight ways of working focused on the critical analysis of texts with relevant didactic content, the construction and the didactic exploration of simple materials, linked to the topics addressed and appropriate to the children's context. The evaluation is continuous and takes place throughout the semester through the completion of Tasks (T) (50%), of a different nature (individual and / or group), related to the themes of the program and a Final Task (TF) (50%), scientific-didactic in nature on a theme chosen by students, subject to presentation and discussion in the classroom. (Final Classification = [(T1 + T2 + T3 + T4) / 4] + Tf) / 2)). In the exam regime, students take a written test (Ex) 50% and a Final Task (TF) (50%). (Final Classification = (Ex + Tf) / 2)