SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
What Is Science & Technology?
Why Is It Important?
Best Practices
What Is Science & Technology?
Science lessons are planned to ensure that students become science-literate citizens, while emphasizing that science is a way of thinking. It aims to equip the students with skills they can use throughout their lives by internalizing the ability to investigate and inquire scientific knowledge. Through scientific research and project activities, students are supported to improve the ability to access valid and reliable sources. Therefore, they acquire such skills as analyzing, interpreting, and finding solutions to real-life problems, which they are expected to use not only throughout their study, but also later in their adult lives.
Why Is It Important?
Science lessons ensure that students learn and understand the natural world and experience its intellectual richness and excitement. In addition to developing a sense of curiosity, it has a content that provides experience by observing the mutual interaction between the society and the environment. Through science lessons, students realize social, economic and ethical values, personal health and environmental problems. They acquire skills that help them take responsibility about environmental problems and make conscious decisions within the framework of ethical values.