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Special Students: Exploring the Best Methods for Learning Science

Special Students: Exploring the Best Methods for Learning Science. “Science is for all students” (Haskell, March 2000). Written by: Laura Shipman. What is the best method for instruction?. Textbook Mnemonic Activity approach Inquiry learning Hands-on Lecture . Textbook.

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Special Students: Exploring the Best Methods for Learning Science

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  1. Special Students: Exploring the Best Methods for Learning Science “Science is for all students” (Haskell, March 2000) Written by: Laura Shipman

  2. What is the best method for instruction? • Textbook • Mnemonic • Activity approach • Inquiry learning • Hands-on • Lecture

  3. Textbook • Enormous amounts of vocabulary • The readings maybe harder for special needs children to understand • Paper and pencil work – end of chapter questions/workbook • Students have difficulty learning from reading/worksheet assignments *

  4. Mnemonic • memory-enhancing strategy • Study guides • keyword method – “three R’s” recording, relating, and retrieving

  5. Activity Approach/Inquiry Learning/Hands-on • Engages students in using the multiple literacies of all disciplines while gathering data, determining how the data constitutes evidence for the claims the students are generating, and sharing/evaluating the claims with fellow classmates • Teachers are challenged in inquiry based instruction • Learn through doing the experiments – build on prior knowledge • Use less vocabulary • More time spent interacting with actual examples of the concepts being studied • FOSS • Students like these approaches to learning commenting that it helps them learn more and is more enjoyable

  6. Lecture • Problems for students with short attention spans • Lectures need to be brief for special needs children

  7. Conclusion • The inquiry based, hands-on, activity approach is the best method for special needs children to learn science! • “Learning science is an active process,” (Haskell, March 2000)

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