Primary Science

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-335-24039-5
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

Do you lack confidence in teaching the more difficult areas of primary science?

Do you want accessible, well structured support?

Yes? Then this handy book is for you.

It provides a combination of engaging, practical lesson ideas and subject knowledge to help you teach the trickiest parts of primary science such as materials and their properties, magnetism, circuits, forces and life processes.

Using strategies that have been successfully used in primary school classrooms, it explains the most difficult topics in a simple, non-technical style. It includes a range of accessible ideas, hints and tips with a focus on providing a skills-based, problem-solving approach to learning.

Each topic area includes advice on:

- How to link the topic with other areas of learning

- Identifying and challenging common misconceptions

- How to effectively pre-assess the learners' ideas to best meet their needs

- Practical activities for challenging and developing children's ideas

- Explanatory models to help pupils consolidate their understanding

This book provides friendly support and guidance to anyone teaching or training to teach primary science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rutledge, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik E-Learning, Bildungstechnologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein E-Learning

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

How to use this book

How children learn

Ensuring an effective learning context

The relationship between science skills and knowledge

and understanding

Developing an initial understanding of classifying materials

and their properties

Developing an initial understanding of changes in materials

Developing a more advanced understanding of classifying

materials and their properties

Developing a more advanced understanding of changes

in materials

Developing a primary school model of thermal insulation

Developing a primary school model of magnetism

Developing an initial understanding of light

Developing a more advanced model for understanding light

Developing primary school models of Earth and beyond

Developing a primary school model of sound

Developing an initial understanding of what goes on in a

simple circuit

Developing a more advanced understanding of what goes

on in a simple circuit

Developing an initial understanding of forces

Developing a more advanced understanding of forces

Developing an initial understanding of life processes

and living things

Developing a more advanced understanding of life

processes and living things

Further reading

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Rutledge is Senior Lecturer in Science at the University of Cumbria, UK and also runs science CPD programmes for Cumbria LEA and for the Science Learning Centre. He has been nominated for the National Teaching Fellowship scheme.