Apr 24, 2024  
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1 
    
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1

EDU 5050 Integrating Science and Social Studies in the Learning Environment


Lecture: 4 Lab: 0 Practica: 0 Total Credits: 4
EDU 5050 introduces candidates to the K-2 science and social studies curricula, research-based instructional strategies with emphasis on comprehension strategies, and explicit instruction as components of building a community of independent learners. Candidates investigate resources that enhance student learning in science and social studies, plan and present K-2 science and social studies lessons, practice differentiating instruction and providing feedback, and participate in conferences to discuss their effectiveness. Candidates demonstrate and apply understandings and integration of the three dimensions of science and engineering practices, cross-cutting concepts, and major disciplinary core ideas, within the major content areas of science for grades K-2. Candidates also demonstrate understandings, capabilities, and practices associated with the central concepts and tools in Civics, Economics, Geography, and History, within a framework of informed inquiry for grades K-2.