Science Teaching Pedagogy

• Know, use and interpret scientific explanations of the  natural world
• Generate and evaluate scientific evidence and explanations, distinguishing science from pseudoscience
• Understand the nature and development of scientific knowledge
• Participate productively in scientific practices and  discourse.

            (Taking Science to School Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8. National Research Council of the National Academies.)

1. Experience excitement, interest and motivation to learn about phenomena in the natural and physical world.
2. Come to generate, understand, remember and use concepts, explanations, arguments, models and facts related to science.
3. Manipulate, test, explore, predict, question, observe and make sense of the natural and physical world. 
4. Reflect on science as a way of knowing; on processes, concepts and institutions of science; and on their own process of learning about phenomena.
5. Participate in scientific activities and learning practices with others, using scientific language and tools.
6. Think about themselves as science learners and develop an identity as someone who knows about, uses and sometimes contributes to science.

(Duschl et. al., 2007; Bell et. al. 2009)