IDENTIFIERS *Science through Discovery

Many primary school teachers feel a lack of confidence in teaching science and technology. This paper aims to demonstrate useful and practical strategies for non-specialist science teachers to use in stimulating a positive scientific attitude among primary school students. It proposes that teachers should strive to develop children's natural inquisitiveness and curiosity about the world around them, and that a constructivist approach facilitates scientific investigation because the curriculum is not teacher-centered. It describes how the constructivist approach uses specific strategies, including observation, designing, making, questioning, prediction, discussion, and recording, experiences, which are characteristics of successful scientific inquiry. The paper explains that the constructivist approach to science encourages the process of discovery and learning rather than the "book teaching " o