ABSTRACT
Filtration of water is a very important topic in the (JSS One) General Science syllabus. It is one way by which water could be purified and made safe for use.
It is of this view that the researcher adopted a way to construct a teaching and learning material to teach the topic.
The purpose of the study is to improvise a teaching and learning material to teach the topic, find out whether the use of improvised teaching and learning materials does help in teaching Science lessons and finally to help teachers and other researcher carry out their work with the improvised teaching and learning material as their basis.
The targeted population is Dodowa Methodist Basic One. It is the JSS Department where the researcher focused with particular attention at the JSS One class. In all, the study dealt with a Science tutor and fifteen (15) pupils.
The entire study is conducted using interview as the instrument and the data that is gathered are put in tables with figures converted into simple percentages.
The results of the study are based on the research questions and the responses the research subjects gave to the items in the interview schedule.
Finally, it must be recommended that the entire work is a successful one and hence would be suggested that the use of teaching and learning materials should be used intensively in the teaching and learning process. Where these teaching and learning materials are not readily available, teachers must be encouraged to use materials available in their immediate environment to construct one.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In preparing this work, many people have been of immense assistance. It is therefore the author’s pleasant task to thank all those who helped him in completing this work.
The author strongly believes that any intellectual work is a collective product and he is just a mere vehicle manifesting the various intellectual current and social forces of time.
My Sincere thanks go to the Almighty God who gave me life, strength, good health and knowledge. Without him, nothing good could have been achieved.
I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to my able supervisor, Mr. Oppong Clement Afriyie who took his time to go through this work.
I would also like to acknowledge my lead mentor, Mrs. Margaret Ofosu for granting me numerous permissions so as to carry out this study. Not forgetting my mentors for their comments and suggestions on the study.
Finally, to pupils of Dodowa Methodist Basic JSS (Form One Class) for cooperating with me to successfully complete this work.
DEDICATION
This work is dedicated to my beloved sisters, Fidelia Doe Agbemavah and Dzigbordi Agbemavah.
