COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DEVELOPING SCIENCE ACTIVITIES FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÖEP 5106 DEVELOPING SCIENCE ACTIVITIES FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Special Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SAFIYE SUNAY YILDIRIM DOĞRU

Offered to

Special Education

Course Objective

Designing and implementing scientific activities for teaching science-related concepts and subjects in special education classes

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. To be able to comprehend science and doing science through science activities
2   2. To develop ability experimentation, observation and logical inference skills through science activities
3   3. Access to innovative science activities that have scientifically proven validity
4   4. To apply innovative science activities that have scientifically proven validity and to adapt them by considering the characteristics of special needs groups
5   5. Applying and evaluating science activities adapted and designed for groups with special needs

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The importance of science activities in special education classes
2 Access to in-class and out-of-class scientific activity resources (journals and activity books and basic resources)
3 Adapting a sample science activity to teaching a topic or concept
4 Apply a sample science activity and organizing through feedback
5 Main and basic components in designing science activities
6 Determining the subject area and a problem for science activity design
7 Benefiting from resource research and similar activities for problem solving
8 Midterm evaluation
9 Science activity development process - preparation
10 Science activity development process - development
11 Science activity development process - experiment
12 Science activity development process - adaptations for special needs groups
13 Application of the developed science activity inside and outside the classroom
14 Dissemination of the science activity which is developed
15 End of term evaluation (Project evaluation and feedback)
16 End of term evaluation (Project evaluation and feedback)

Recomended or Required Reading

Basic reference textbooks in the related field of course resources and are scientific activity journals that exist on this subject.
Below are examples of the most common of these journals.

Anite Van Saan (Derleyen), Dorothea Tust(Resimleyen), (2018). Her Güne Bir Deney (365 Experimente für jeden Tag, 2008, Moses Verlag, 7. Baskı), Çeviri: Esen Tezel. Yapı Kredi Yayınları-3995.
Science Activities: Classroom projects and curriculum ideas http://heldref.org/pubs/sa/manuscripts.html
Science Scope: Middle School Science Classroom: http://www.nsta.org/middleschool/
Science &Children: Elementary Science Classroom : http://www.nsta.org/elementaryschool/
Journal of College Science Teaching: College Science Classroom: http://www.nsta.org/college/ lid=pub

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Joint-group learning, discussion, project design

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Adapting and evaluating a science activity from a scientific source / journal to a special education classroom environment (40%), developing an innovative science activity as a project (60%)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attandence is obligatory

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

kemal.yurumezoglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 13:00-17:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 8 112
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 198

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7
LO.12223323
LO.23223334
LO.34223323
LO.42223334
LO.53223324

CONTACT INFORMATION
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