Abstract The lesson plan of nature of science (NOS) is the basis of NOS teaching practice. This study evaluated NOS lesson plan of 35 pre-service science teachers. Data sources include NOS lesson plans, semi-structured interviews, informal interviews, and other multiple data. Data analysis applied the “explicit-reflective” teaching as the framework, and coded NOS lesson plan from six aspects: setting instructional objectives of NOS, integrating traditional teaching content with NOS, creating situations related to NOS, asking questions about NOS, discoursing questions about NOS, and reflecting on NOS. The results showed that preservice science teachers can take the NOS as a cognitive goal, excavate the content of the NOS in curriculum materials, and create well teaching situations of the NOS, but they do not perform well in the problems, discussions, and reflections of the implementation of NOS lesson plan. This indicated that preservice science teachers still have difficulties in transforming “explicit-reflective” teaching into concrete and practical lesson plan.
GOU Xin-Yue, LIU Rui, CHEN Zong-Ying. Evaluation of Nature of Science Lesson Plan of Pre-Service Science Teachers[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Education, 2023, 44(4): 61-68.
