SCIENCE UNIT BOXES: OLD HAT AT McGILL

Abstract

There is nothing novel about the development of Science Unit Boxes by elementary school teaching candidates. In fact, students enrolled in elementary school science in the Faculty of Education at McGill University are expected to prepare a Science Unit which takes the form of a Materials Box and Resource File. This activity, a major and culminating assignment for the methods course since 1970, involves the preparation of a comprehensive multimaterials supply box as well as an appropriate set of pupil-oriented activities in the form of a conceptual scheme.