University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 1: Process Skills
In this umthamo teachers are asked to think carefully about science and scientists. The outcomes provide teachers an opportunity to: * develop their own science literacy * reconsider some ideas about the abilities of young children * identify and describe science process skills * present a lesson that develops science process skills. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Technology Education. Umthamo 6: Making Moves
This umthamo discusses the various elements and aspects of movement related to technology. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Technology Education. Umthamo 5: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
This umthamo discusses technology and environmental education and the tensions between the two in real world issues. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Technology Education. Umthamo 4: Differentiated Group Work - Joining and Fastening
The focus in this umthamo will be on the process of joining things. Joining and fastening is a very important part of making. It would be impossible to join things without using materials and special tools. This umthamo will also suggest interesting approaches to group work. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Technology Education. Umthamo 2: An Introduction to Graphic Communication
In this second Technology Education umthamo, we focus on drawing. We will be looking at how different ways of writing and pictures are a form of communication. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 6: Gardening and Guarding Our Heritage Plants
This umthamo aims to increase understanding of the natural environment around the school and will explore the rich floral heritage of the Eastern Cape. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 5: Fair Tests
The outcome of this umthamo relate to integrating the way children think and work scientifically in the classroom. There will be a focus on experimenting, as well as the related process skills of using time relationships and controlling and manipulating variables. Teachers will also be asked to reflect on their role as they help learners develop these science skills. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 4: Finding Out More About Science
This umthato focuses on the living world and emphasizes the value of integrating different learning areas. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 3: Investigation and Inquiry-based Science
In this umthato teachers and learners will build on the development of science process skills by trying activities that promote an inquiry-based approach to science learning. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 2: What's Happening Here?
In this umthamo we continue to think about some of the science process skills. We will continue to base the work on the natural science strand, /Matter and Materials/, but this time it will also be linked to the strand /Energy and change. /In the previous umthamo the focus was on the science skills of observation and predication. This time the skills of inference and developing theories is... more
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