Abstract:
The study sought to investigate the effects of Activity Method (AM) on 53 Junior High
School students’ performance in energy transformation at the Sekyere South District of the
Ashanti Region of Ghana. The study investigated the comparative efficiency of the AM and
the traditional lecture method in energy transformation in Integrated Science. A
pretest-posttest action research design was used as the main design for the study. The students
from the experimental group were taught with the AM whereas the students from the control
group were taught with the traditional lecture method. Means, standard deviations, and
Mann-Whitney U tests were used to analyze the scores from the pretest and posttest scores of
the students. The findings from the study show that the students from the experimental group
performed creditably well than the students from the control in the posttest. Hence, the AM
enhanced the performance of the students in energy transformation.
