Abstract

Science has been man’s greatest friend since the dawn of civilization. Educationists, psychologists and philosophers have tried their best to develop new strategies, approaches and methods to make science education more effective. The difficult to teach and challenging to learn scientific concepts is attributed by the fact that Science has always been associated with demonstrations, experiments, analysis and inductive-deductive reasoning. So, innovative science teaching strategies must come out in order to satisfy the varied needs of the students. Guided discovery learning combines guiding the way to understanding or problem-solving by a facilitator along with the discovery of facts, drawing relationships and proposing solutions by the students themselves, as they explore things, manipulate, debate, or perform experiments inculcating upon their own experience and existing knowledge.

Keywords: Guided Discovery Learning, Scientific literacy.

[1] LPST, Department of General Education, Government of Kerala.

[2] Asst. Professor, Department of EIE, FISAT, Angamaly.