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Critical Thinking in Teaching Natural Science
Taisiya Pyl
Students pursuing any educational problem should believe that their research would result in understanding or explanation. Any explanation should be relatively simple and subject to demonstration. Also, it should correspond with or be discussed in terms of known theories. Students of the fifth grade are in between junior and middle school age (according to the traditional school division in the post-soviet territory - editor's note) and their knowledge is mainly general - their understanding is tied to visual images or verbal definitions, expressed with the help of a specialized vocabulary. The body of information these students must learn, as laid down by the school program, is difficult to acquire without analysing, generalizing, systematizing and establishing relationships of cause and effect - i.e. without theoretical processing. To this end, students' research is of the utmost importance.
What is the teacher's role in the organization of such research activities?
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Critical Thinking in Teaching Natural Science