History of Science in the Curriculum

History of
Science in the
Curriculum
Presenter:
Leo Frank T.
Lamban

History of Science in the Curriculum
A. History of Science
Education Curriculum
B. Reasons for History
C. History of US Science
Curricula

History of Science
Education Curriculum
Science education curriculum includes textbooks, instructional materials, and complete instructional programs designed to help students master the content and processes of science. History of Science
Education Curriculum
Subject during the last half of the
19th century, science education curriculum reflected the current understandings of how children learned; that is, by reading and by recitation of the facts.

History of Science
Education Curriculum
At the secondary level, students were to study chemistry, physics, and astronomy with a strong laboratory component.

History of Science
Education Curriculum
However, contemporary evidence suggests that most students were taught science by reading textbooks and reciting what they had read.

History of Science
Education Curriculum
John Dewey developed new sociological insights into learning that should be applied in schooling. Human have the ability to learn from experience. Human learning as a natural human learning capacity is the understanding that learning is the result of active investigation of learning.

History of Science
Education Curriculum
William Heard Kilpatrick developed “project method”showed that it was possible to engage students in the crucial activity of investigation even within the context of a traditional school. History of Science
Education Curriculum
National Education Association’s
Committee of Ten in 1893- first systematic attempt of formalizing what should be taught and learned about science in the elementary and secondary schools.

History of Science
Education Curriculum
Elementary years- “nature study”
High School- botany, zoology, chemistry, and physics with the goal of learning the facts and principles of those subjects in a laboratory