DOI: 10.36347/sajb.2018.v06i08.004

Pages: 585-588

The study investigated the importance of on practical activities for effective teaching of Biology. The work was carried out in Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu State. The design of the study was quasi-experimental design. The researcher used simple random sampling to select 120 (one hundred and twenty) students. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. the instrument for data collection is the Biology Achievement Test (BAT) which consisted of 20 multiple choice items with four answer option. The instrument was used for both pretest and posttest. The instrument was face and content validated by experts. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Kuder-Richardson formular 20 (K-R 20). The internal consistency obtained was 0.84. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation while z-test was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The results revealed that practical activities has a positive effect on the achievement of students since the students taught with practical activities achieved higher than those students taught without practical activities and that female students achieved better than the male students when taught with practical activities. The researcher recommended among others that Government should equip the laboratories to make the teaching of biology more comprehensive, easier, enjoyable and effective and that Biology should be taught with practical activities so that the students will do science instead of learning about science.