Method project on the teaching of Science in the primary and middles school

Abstract

Of old it has been the usual order that the study of nature in Ghanaian schools has been in the form of the modern teacher regarding the child as a Passive recipient of imparted knowledge and therefore dumping on him his acquired knowledge from books and of which, in most cases he the teacher lacks any practical knowledge. This promotes rote learning and apart from sealing off the child's exploratory, discovering and developing mind, it does the child the greatest harm to swallowing with pleasure and delight every written information especially in books or imparted knowledge ~ especially from his elders and seniors without thinking about its validity or possibility. The result is failure on the part of students to give correct answers to such simple questions as "How does the aeroplane fly?" or "How is the gramophone able to give out music?" and attributing the phenomena to magic.