Mapping the Science Skills of Grade III Pupils at Leon M. Manigbas Elementary School
Keywords:
observing, inferring, comparing, predictingAbstract
INTRODUCTION
During elementary years, especially during science subjects, pupils get easily bored with routine activities, instead, they like to try their own ways of doing things. Using different science skills in teaching, science enhances children's reasoning ability. The science curriculum is designed to develop human knowledge and understanding. It is mandatory for science teachers to look for the goal of their instructions beyond the narrow confines to science learning. These are found in activities and all of these should be utilized. Activities help students to think critically and develop scientific attitudes. During classroom activities, aroused and sustained among students further interests in science which may lead to the pursuit of science.
METHODS
The study made used of descriptive method of research to attain data that would precisely interpret the concerns of this study. The descriptive method was used to identify the performance of pupils in science and health, the pupil's competency in science skills and to find out the relationship of the performance of pupils in science and health with the different science skills.
RESULTS
Majority of pupils had an average level of performance in Science and in its components. Pupils found less difficult observing and comparing because they had the basic skill to all investigative activities learned at the very early grade level and had enough knowledge on how to use the different apparatus and instrument. On the other hand, pupils encountered difficulties in some science skills such as predicting and inferring because children were easily destructed.
DISCUSSIONS
The pupils should develop their ability to think critically, to investigate and work through problems logically and to make connections to the real world. And for teachers and administrators, they must go together to think of better ideas on how to assess the different science skills in learning of science of pupils.
