BIOLOGY PRACTICALS FOR ORDINARY LEVEL
For FORM THREE and FORM FOUR
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Skills Acquisition from Practicals
Practical activities can help develop many transferable skills. In other words, such skills can add value to students and aid them on their chosen career paths.
Potential Confusion
Practical activities can sometimes confuse rather than improve the students’ understanding, especially if the practice doesn’t go according to plan. Furthermore, there is an assumption that practical tasks are not a good method of teaching theory, suggesting that theories comprise abstract ideas which can’t be demonstrated physically. ‘In the context of the school laboratory, it is clear that students cannot develop knowledge through their own observations, as the theoretical entities of science are not there to be seen.
Possible Demotivation
Many students dislike the prospect of performing practical tasks. There is also evidence indicating that typically boys enjoy practical work way more than girls, and therefore the latter can often be less enthusiastic when participating in the same practical activity (Wellington).