Practical Ideas for Teaching Primary Science (Critical Teaching) - Softcover

Cooke, Vivian; Howard, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909682292 ISBN 13: 9781909682290

Verlag: Routledge, 2014

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This up to date text addresses primary science teaching in light of the new primary National Curriculum and the latest Teachers’ Standards. Aimed at primary trainees and teachers, it provides creative, inspiring and practical ideas and approaches for teaching the full range of science topics. Each chapter is aligned to an area of the new National Curriculum and provides key vocabulary, details of common misconceptions and how to address them, teaching strategies and activities, cross-curricular links and health and safety points. Throughout there is a strong focus on science subject knowledge development and how to translate this into practice in the primary classroom. The book also encourages readers to reflect on their own subject knowledge of science and challenges them to critically evaluate their teaching in order to become more effective.

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Vivian Cooke is a senior lecturer in primary science education at the University of Worcester. She began her teaching career as a primary school teacher with responsibility for science, design and technology and ICT. She has worked in two other higher education institutions as a senior lecturer in science on postgraduate, undergraduate and Masters’ courses as well as being course leader for early years, primary and the two-year PGCE.

Colin Howard is a senior primary lecturer in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) at the University of Worcester. He has been involved in primary education for over 24 years of which 14 years has been as a successful head teacher in both small village and large primary school settings. He has been involved in inspecting schools for the Diocese of Hereford as a S48 SIAS Inspector. He has recently been awarded a Phd linked to his interest in the influence that school buildings have upon their stakeholders.

Vivian Cooke is a senior lecturer in primary science education at the University of Worcester. She began her teaching career as a primary school teacher with responsibility for science, design and technology and ICT. She has worked in two other higher education institutions as a senior lecturer in science on postgraduate, undergraduate and Masters’ courses as well as being course leader for early years, primary and the two-year PGCE.

Colin Howard is a senior primary lecturer in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) at the University of Worcester. He has been involved in primary education for over 24 years of which 14 years has been as a successful head teacher in both small village and large primary school settings. He has been involved in inspecting schools for the Diocese of Hereford as a S48 SIAS Inspector. He has recently been awarded a Phd linked to his interest in the influence that school buildings have upon their stakeholders.

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Practical Ideas for Teaching Primary Science

By Vivian Cooke, Colin Howard

Critical Publishing Ltd

Copyright © 2014 Vivian Cooke and Colin Howard
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-909682-29-0

Contents

Acknowledgements, 
Meet the authors, 
Introduction, 
1 The nature of science teaching and working scientifically, 
2 What makes an effective science lesson?, 
3 Animals and humans, 
4 Plants, habitats and living things, 
5 Evolution and inheritance, 
6 Everyday materials and their properties, 
7 Earth and space, 
8 Rocks, 
9 Light, 
10 Forces, motion and magnets, 
11 Sound, 
12 Electricity, 
Index, 

CHAPTER 1

The nature of science teaching and working scientifically

Introduction

The Education Reform Act 1988 had a profound effect on the place of science in the primary curriculum in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as, since then, the teaching of science has been statutory and the science that is taught in primary schools is prescribed. This chapter deals with the following important aspects of science.

The nature and importance of primary science

Primary science provides children with the skills and knowledge that they need to help them understand the world around them. It helps them to make sense of the changes in our increasingly technological world and prepares them for life in the twenty-first century. Science makes children scientifically literate by enabling them to have a broad understanding of key ideas in science, as well as helping them to apply those ideas to everyday events. It gives pupils the skills to make decisions with confidence about scientific issues that affect us all and understand the implications of science now and in the future. Science can help develop children's curiosity and their sense of wonder and nurture useful attitudes such as perseverance, critical reflection, flexibility in thinking and being sensitive to other points of view. These can be applied to other aspects of their lives.

The new national curriculum (DfE, 2013) describes how science has changed our lives and is vital to the world's future prosperity, and states that all pupils should be taught essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes and uses of science. It also describes how science can develop a sense of excitement and curiosity in children about natural phenomena. It describes how the social and economic implications of teaching science are taught most appropriately within the wider school curriculum and how you may wish to use different contexts to maximise pupils' engagement with and motivation to study science. Science can thus effectively be applied and referred to in other curriculum areas such as geography or history, for instance when children are learning about pollution, or how ideas about scientific phenomena have changed over time.

The dual aspect of science

The outcomes of undertaking science activities in your primary classroom will result in children developing conceptual knowledge and understanding about important scientific ideas like ourselves and other living things, materials and their properties, electricity, forces or light. This will require pupils to process information, handle data and use problem-solving skills. These process skills can be defined as the methods and strategies that scientists use to find answers and explanations. They include the ability to ask questions, make predictions, hypothesise, create tests, take measurements, collect data and look for patterns and explanations. This is referred to as the dual aspect of scien

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1909682292
• ISBN 13: 9781909682290
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
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