1.

the phrase becoming scientific involve is a particular way of thinking about

learning science which involves the whole person of the learner, his feelings and
works, their personal interests, their previous experiences and how they perceive
themselves as a learners. It also involves many things, including learning about
what scientists know and think, how they have come to believe in their sometimes
strange ideas, and why they do science.
2. We know that children are becoming scientific when they begin to explore their
experiences, feelings and interests to develop their knowledge.
3. Teaching science involves 1) ideas and evidence in science: 2) Investigative skill:
4. Ideas and evidence in science means that students should be taught the science in
the school and they should find the evidences by doing experiments with their
curiosity using the possible mean to gather in formations.
5. Some hidden curriculum in science class are our values and beliefs about how we
want children to learn and help them to develop the skills, attitudes and ways of
working that express our scientific values such as curiosity, collaboration,
skepticism, imagination, questioning, tolerance to uncertainty.
6. The difference between Victorian image of science and the modern image of
science is that Victorian image of science regarded science knowledge as fixed
and certain truth, would be consistent with a didactic method of teaching while
Modern image of science is consistent with constructivist approaches with real
investigation.
7. Theories of learning are helpful for me in teaching science that it helps us
improve in teaching especially the way how children think and act.
8. Science is a way of exploring and investigating our world. The aim is to learn
more about and understand better, the objects, materials, living things and
phenomena we experience.
9. Modern view of science says about the facts, concepts and theories which make
up scientific knowledge are neither permanent nor beyond dispute. They are just
like a report on progress which need future investigation to modify.
10. I understand the word “theories are not final they are provisional” that the theories
are only a means to explain what to do about the strange ideas about the world.
They cannot be used to determine what is happening, it can be use temporarily
how to do experiments.
11. The strength of science lies on its openness to criticism and correction. Science is
regarded as a powerful and influential activities precisely because the truth of
scientific knowledge cannot be taken for granted and because it is always open to
question.
12. The three kind of knowledge are 1) Knowledge “that” 2) Knowledge “why” and
2) Knowledge “how to”.
13. Knowing that is the knowing of the facts, events and changes. Example of
Knowing “that” is if a child knows that when salt dissolves in water, it does not
appear but mixes with the water. If he doesn’t know this, it might be a surprise for
him. Since he knows, he might be curious to find out the reason.
14. Knowing “why” is concerned with identifying causes for what has been observed
by seeking and explanation and by gaining understanding rather than gaining
factual knowledge. It is a kind of knowing which grows out of and enables us to
 answer, question begins with “why”. For example, if a child wants to know why
the blue litmus paper turn into red. He would probably say ‘can all the paper turn
its color to red? Why only the litmus paper?
15. Knowing “how to” is to investigate the processes and procedures, including fair
tests for ideas and theories. For example, if a child wants to know the change of
litmus paper, he would undergo the experiments. Only then he will understand it
work.
16. Being scientific largely concerned with investigating through first-hand
experience which helps children to understand the world around them. This
presents the teacher with great opportunities, but can also raise problems.
17. Topic approach for me is to collect all the means that is helpful, useful for the
topic that we are going to teach and display them to the student in order to
understand what the topic all about is.
18. It is important and powerful resource in the children’s own question because it
arouses children’s curiosity, scientific thinking and discussion about what they
already know and want to learn next.
19. Scientific investigation is to see how something starts using various methods and
experiments: Human explanatory is the fact that it it is carried out in an agreed
and thorough way.
20. The two extremes of learning style are Knowledge first and Experience first. I
think to be able to teach science effectively, we need the two learning styles.