Abstract
The science education that pre-service elementary teachers receive shapes their and their students' relationship with science. Elementary school teachers report low confidence and low enthusiasm when it comes to learning and teaching science. The Hands on Science (HoS) program at UT Austin was created as part of the successful UTeach program, to serve the unique needs of Applied Learning and Development majors. HoS consists of four required content courses: Physics, Chemistry & Geology, Biology, and Astronomy & Earth Climate. HoS classes were designed using best-practices from education research to meet the specific needs of future elementary school teachers. They differ from traditional introductory science courses in two ways: our students learn the specific content they will later be expected to teach, and they learn it through hands-on inquiry. They attain higher learning gains and show improved attitudes towards learning and teaching science, compared to students in traditional lecture-based intro classes.
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