This course introduces participants to the potential of informal learning approaches and environments for science learning through lectures and field trips. Major avenues of learning such as the use of structured venues, everyday life activities, science-related programs, mass media and the use of extended science investigations of the world around you will be examined for their affordances in providing high quality and engaging/applied learning experiences.

1. Describe the affordances of informal science learning approaches and environments.


2. Adapt informal learning activities for diverse learners.


3. Design technology-infused science investigation activities for applied learning

1. Introduction to informal learning environments


2. Applied learning in primary science


3. Demonstration of IoT science instruments


4. Theory of informal learning environments 1


5. Theory of informal learning environments 2


6. Individual presentations


7. Virtual field trip


8. Field trip to science place-of-interest

• Diploma in Education (Dip Ed), OR


• Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) from NIE or its equivalent.