This course introduces student teachers to the role of science in the society and its importance in the school curriculum, the nature of science, scientific method (processes of science), inductive & deductive logic as well as science as a process and a product. It also deals with theories of learning: behaviourism(Pavlov) and constructivism (Piaget, Ausubel, Bruner and Vygotsky). Methods of teaching science, laboratory work, investigation, inquiry, discovery and others will also be explored.