Practice Test: Science Pedagogy - 4 - CTET & State TET MCQ

 Option A, B and C are nature of science. But option D, i.e., science and its method can answer all questions is one of the 15 myths proposed by Mc Comos in 1998.

For the discussion on the given topic, the teacher should provide a common platform to the learners, acknowledge learners’ responses to sustain their interest and summarise and asses the learner’s ideas at the end of discussion. These all enhance the student's learning and provide them with relevant opportunities to understand the concept.

Teacher should discuss swine flu and make detail about it and also encourage all the students to get more science related articles.

Teachers need to plan a lesson design such that learners are challenged to think. In a meaningful learning experience, teachers are able to take students beyond listening to thinking, reasoning and doing.

According to task learning through practical examples are more effective and easy to understand about anything. So, this type of activity helps the students to go beyond the text books and find answers for themselves. But it take lot of time and effort. And sometimes students just waste their time. So, it is better that teacher will do this type of activity in front of her. So, the least response is for a such activities is to make a good homework task.

Dales’ Cone of Experience is a tool to help teachers make decisions about teaching learning resources and activities. The teachers can think on the line of following questions for making a decision.

• Where will this teaching-learning resource fit with the learner's experience on the Cone?
• How far it is related to their real life?
• What kind of learning experiences can be provided in the classroom?
• How does this teaching-learning resource augment the information supplied by the textbook?
• What and how many senses can learners use to learn this teaching learning material?
• Does the teaching-learning material enhance learning?

Standardized test scores may be especially inappropriate evaluations of programs that are designated for culturally diverse students. Standardized achievement tests suffer from the same ailments as intelligence tests, are also used to determine educational programming, and more recently have been used to determine funding for schools.

Teachers need to plan a lesson design such that learners are challenged to think. In a meaningful learning experience, teachers are able to take students beyond listening to thinking, reasoning and doing.

Concept map, anecdotal and portfolio are some methods of finding the learning gaps of learners in science.

Hence, ‘Wax pieces begin to fall one-by-one in the order of their increasing distance from the flame’ is an observation and other statement ‘Aluminium strip transfers heat from the end nearest to the flame to the other end.’ is inference.

While teaching the topic ‘Save Water’ we should Asking students to interview people in their colony about water consumption and carry out ‘Water Audit’.

At the upper primary level the child should be engaged in learning principles of science through familiar experiences. The objective of science education at the upper primary level is to nurturing the natural curiosity of children and cultivating scientific temper in them. Inculcating the values of co-operation and concern for life.

'Law of effect ' of Thorndike states that a person learns anything depending on its effect. An activity in a class is always effective and helpful in retaining learning for long duration. Therefore, the teacher ask students to write slogans on saving energy, Make a model/project to depict energy saving and encourage students to save energy in various ways in their lives.

As 82a58b is divisible by 45 but not by 20 it means it is divisible by 5 and 9 but not by 2. Now for divisibility of 5, ‘b’ should be 0, 5. But ‘b’ can’t be ‘0’ as number is not divisible by 2. Similarly, for divisibility of 9, sum of the digits, i.e. 23+a+b= 28+a should be divisible by 9.
Hence, a=8 as 36 is divisible by 9.