Teaching and Learning Experimental Sciences I

The educational purpose of this subject has been designed taking into account: 1) The student's features; 2) Total available time to teaching and learning of science in the study plan, and 3) the legal requirements about this area of knowledge. These restraints are summed up in:
- Almost 75% of students do not have studied physics, chemistry, biology, or geology since Secondary School.
- Most of them have negative attitudes toward teaching and learning science (especially toward physics and chemistry).
- From 240 credits of the study plan, all students will study only 12 credits related to teaching and learning science.
- There is a general interest in instructing future primary teachers in a way that enables them to be able to teach science in accordance, as well as point out legal requirements in the pedagogical content knowledge.

For all these reasons, we have designed a shared program for both subjects of teaching and learning science, and we have chosen:
- Depth against extent
- The quality and the selection of the contents instead of the superficial treatment of more scientific contents related to primary school.
- Methodological coherence between what is said and how classes are developed.

Course will consist of 60hrs of in class work and 90 hrs of independent work outside the classroom.