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ASSIGNMENT
SUBMITTED
BY
KAVITHA.
V
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
TOPIC
SOURCE BOOK AND HAND BOOK
INTRODUCTION
Teaching is a challenging and time
consuming activity. Teachers are
constantly looking for new ideas and practical work for science subjects. Many
have to teach new or unfamiliar topics with limited time to plan and try out
suitable activities. Pupils usually hope that science will offer exciting activities or experiments and
science teachers face the challenge of meeting these expectations. Here comes
the significance of source book and hand book.
Source book is
a book giving information such as facts
on a particular subject. The source book for teaching science is a unique
comprehensive resource designed to give middle and high school science teachers
a wealth of information that will enhance any science curriculum. Filled with innovative tools, dynamic
activities and practical lesson plans that are grounded in theory, research and
national standards, the book offers new and experienced science teachers
powerful strategies and original ideas
that will enhance the teaching of physics, chemistry, biology and the earth and
space sciences.
Hand book: The name hand book may sometimes be
applied to reference works that are not pockets sized but to provide ready
reference. It is a treatise on a special
subject. Now a day it is often a simple
hut all-embracing treatment, containing concise information and being small
enough to be held in the hand.
IMPORTANCE OF SOURCE
BOOK AND HANDBOOK
SOURCE BOOK :-
The term source book is used to describe
many different kinds of books such as collection of more articles, Bibliographies,
biographies, printed archival sources, directories and so on.
The source
book for teaching science is designed to compliment any secondary school
science curriculum. Science teachers
will find ready to use demonstrations, experiments. Illustrations, games, puzzles, analogies
lessons, activities and strategies, as well as explanations of how to adopt
these for English learners and diverse student populations. All topics are accompanied by pedagogical
principles necessary for successful classroom implementation. Computer based
resource for teaching and learning science are incorporated throughout this
book. If we require additional resources, we can find it on free website.
(Science source book.com)
According to Hedi Moscovici (CSTE,
director) “Source book is an excellent
resource for every science teacher it provides both theoretical background and
practical applications for science concepts in all four major science areas:
biology, chemistry, physics, and earth and space science.”
According to
Robert Yager, (Formes president of NSTA, NARST, ASTE, SSMA), “The source
book for teaching science offers specific ways to enhance the curriculum,
making at relevant current and personal to students. It Provides suggestions for meeting the
reform visions central to the national standards and it personalizes Science in
ways that provide real learning.”
There are
source books on evaluation for the teacher.
These are prepared by educational experts and experienced teachers
through a series of workshops.
The teacher’s
source book serve as a handbook more than in its conventional sense and it
helps the teacher providing him with additional materials and information. A special feature of the book is that it
gives enough freedom to the teacher in the choice of methodology or even content
not conceded or suggested in the book.
It also gives the teacher a variety of situations, examples, exercises
tasks and activities to be chosen from among for class room use.
Hand book:-
A hand book is a type of reference material for teachers or
collection of instructions that is intended to provide ready reference. Hand books deals with any topic and are
generally compendiums of information in a particular field or about a particular
technique. In our state hand book is prepared by the
SCERT along with text books prepared by them. It contains summaries of chapters is the
Science text books, conceptual development of each topic, list of instructional
objectives, specifications, learning activities, teaching aids to be used,
evaluation tools, seminars, projects etc. organized and suggested reference for
teachers and pupils. Handbooks are
designed to be easily consulted and provide quick answers are a certain
area. “Hand book” sometimes applied to
documents that are produced with in an organization that not designed for
publication – such as a company handbook for HR, for instance. In this case the
term is used nearly synonymously with “manual”.
Hand books are widely used in the science and in medicine as quick references
for various kinds of data.
Advantages
1. It equips the teacher
with sufficient theoretical knowledge and practical suggestions of what is to
be taught.
2. It provides suitable
learning experiences for different instructions situations
3. Help to adopt appropriate methods and approaches
of teaching
4. Help the teacher to prepare
various instructional materials.
5. Help the teacher to evaluate learning using relevant
and standard tools of evaluation.
CONCLUSION
From the above information we can
conclude that source book and hand book are resourceful materials for science
teachers. These books help the students
to develop scientific literacy, reasoning, understanding, problem solving and research skills through
teachers.
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