Modeling is a method that is used very often in science and science education. Howevet it brings desadvantages together because students view sicence and especially science as body of facts and it is not emphasized that models are simple and concrete protypes of the real phenomena. Therefore, the aim of this course is to make students to be aware of models and modelins, to gain knowledge about them and their types, to know the models ysed in science education and to make new models

Model-based teaching and learning, basic concepts and background of model-based learning, introduction to model-based teaching strategies, models used in science education.