COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE TEACHING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FBE 4001 INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE TEACHING COMPULSORY 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Science Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SIMGE KOÇ

Offered to

Science Teacher Education

Course Objective

The main aim of this course is to provide necessary information and skills related to knowledge in different fields of science and perception of skills used, understanding the nature of interdisciplinary knowledge the use of interdisciplinary knowledge in science teaching.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to know interdisciplinary learning, knowledge in different fields of science and perception of skills used
2   Being able to recognize understanding the nature of interdisciplinary knowledge
3   Being able to develop skills for model development, process and system design, project development, inventing-and personal development
4   Being able to know interdisciplinary competence, engineering and design, decision making, high-level thinking, information-communication and business association, innovative thinking, entrepreneurship, science, technology, society and environment and interactions
5   Being able to use application of teaching methods and strategies for sociopolitical issues

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Interdisciplinary learning
2 Knowledge in different fields of science and perception of skills used
3 Understanding the nature of interdisciplinary knowledge, valuing and developing interdisciplinary perspectives
4 The use of interdisciplinary knowledge in science teaching
5 Project development, inventing-and personal development, career choice and precaution; interdisciplinary competence, engineering and design, decision making, high-level thinking, information-communication
6 Business association, innovative thinking, entrepreneurship, science, technology, society and environment and interactions
7 Environment, culture, science and technology policies
8 Course overview, evaluation, and midterm exam
9 Teaching of Socioscientific topics
10 To be a citizen with responsibility, attitude and worth, who take and make sensible decisions about sociopolitical issues
11 Cognitive, affective, intuitive, moral and ethical reasoning
12 Application of teaching methods and strategies for sociopolitical issues.
13 Local, national and global events, product and model development, process and system design - I
14 Local, national and global events, product and model development, process and system design - II
15 Final examination

Recomended or Required Reading

Akgündüz, D.(2018) STEM Eğitimi, Anı yayıncılık, Ankara
Agündüz, D., Ertepinar, H. (2015) STEM eğitimi Türkiye raporu: Günün modası mı yoksa gereksinim mi Istanbul Aydın Universitesi
Çorlu, S. (2017) Stem Kuram ve Uygulamaları, Pusula Yayıncılık
Yıldırım, B. (2017) Teoriden Pratiğe Stem Eğitimi-Uygulama Kitabı, Nobel Bilimsel Eserler

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, presentation, demonstration, discussion, question-answer, case-study, cooperative learning techniques

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Assessment of Student s quiz, project preparation and final exams are evaluated according to learning outcomes

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Its required to join to %70 of courses
The Instructor hides to get various exercises done via individual and cooperation in the planned education and training period

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

bulent.cavas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday, 13:00-15:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 2 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 2 15 30
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 98

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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