Strategies for Developing Learning Skills in Primary Science in Nigeria Schools

Abstract

This paper examined the 21st century learners characteristic, the learning skills and the importance of
developing learning skills in Primary Science teaching. The use of conventional methods of teaching was
discouraged as it merely reproduced learners without thought processes who focus on mere regurgitation
of facts without necessarily utilizing the left brain and the right brain activities in learning science. The
paper also identified some of the strategies for developing learning skills among learners of primary
science and the educational implications involved, were discussion.