Abstract:
This instructional resource production project explored low cost and
waste materials for developing practical and interactive resources for teaching
science at the basic school level. Developing countries, including Ghana, are not
able to provide teachers with instructional resources for teaching and learning due
to financial constraints. Science in particular is a subject that pupils and students in
Ghana generally do not perform well both at the basic and senior high levels which
is evident from the end of level examinations over the years. The study used
exploratory and descriptive approaches under qualitative research. Convenience
sampling was used to select low cost and waste materials to work with, and
observation was used to collect data from the production process. The research
found that waste materials can be used safely to develop appropriate and useful
instructional resources that are very practical for teaching and learning of science
lessons. This research projects to science teachers that they can freely turn col lected waste and low-cost materials into useful resources for effective lessons.
