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A topic immersion course on Teaching Elementary Life Science.
Explore the essential question of how to use processes of scientific inquiry to learn and teach about the living world. Examine the characteristics common to all organisms and learn techniques to surface your students' prior knowledge and understanding.

Enhance your understanding and teaching of life science. In addition to developing content knowledge, you will be introduced to the constructivist learning model, learn a range of effective teaching methodologies and experience a media-rich learning environment which you can use with your students.

Enhance your understanding and teaching of physical science by exploring the concepts of motion, force, and matter that are part of daily life. Learn to incorporate observation, discourse, and experimentation into classroom lessons.

A topic immersion course on Teaching Elementary Physical Science.
Learn to identify and analyze the forces that cause the motions of rolling, falling, floating, and sinking. Explore ways to foster learning through the making and testing of predictions and develop strategies to employ observation and experimentation to illustrate the major forces that act on moving objects.

A topic immersion course on Teaching Elementary Physical Science.
Leverage the power of the real-world context for physical science learning. In this course you'll investigate the physical properties of objects and how their structures affect their response to forces. You'll complete the course prepared to use prediction and testing as a learning tool and assess learning in an ongoing manner.

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