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Ng, Betsy Ling-Ling – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2012
Learning of science has been traditionally conducted in classrooms or in the form of lectures. Science education is usually context-specific learning as students are taught a particular module of content in class. In problem-based learning, they are provided with examples of problems in which they learn how to solve these types of problems.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Learning Strategies, Service Learning
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Tan, Kok Siang; Heng, Chong Yong; Tan, Shuhui – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2013
In classrooms, science is usually taught within the cognitive domain while the psychomotor learning domain is achieved through performing science experiments in the laboratory. Although students attend civic and moral education and pastoral care classes where values and life skills are often taught directly, learning experiences in most school…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Affective Behavior, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science
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Corrigan, Deborah – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2007
This paper describes how a frame has been used to articulate the intentions of a preservice chemistry education course to students of that course. The frame, which draws on appropriate knowledge bases for teachers of science, is also used through the teaching of the course as a diagnostic and development tool to assist the learning of these…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Education Courses, Chemistry
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Man, Yiu Kwong – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2004
This paper discusses the basic concepts of reflection and its related concepts in optics. It aims at providing examples on how to apply the principle of reflection in geometry. Explorations of the concepts involved via dynamic geometry software are also included.
Descriptors: Reflection, Geometry, Concept Teaching, Optics