5. LEARNING ENVIRONMENT/CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT: The practitioner uses an understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.

A. Create a science classroom with multiple teaching resources so that the environment engages the learner in positive social interaction active learning, and self-motivation.

B. Identify the advantages and limitations of science textbooks, curriculum guides, kits, games, video tapes, and computer programs and design a classroom in which these materials provide for active learning.

C. To be able to describe practices which can be employed to make activity-centered instruction more effective in the classroom.