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:O How to link the topic with other areas of learningO Identifying and challenging common misconceptionsO How to effectively pre-assess the learners' ideas to best meet their needsO Practical activities for challenging and developing children's ideasO Explanatory models to help pupils consolidate their understandingThis book provides friendly support and guidance to anyone teaching or training to teach primary science.
Introduction How to use this book How children learn Ensuring an effective learning context The relationship between science skills and knowledgeand understanding Developing an initial understanding of classifying materialsand their properties Developing an initial understanding of changes in materials Developing a more advanced understanding of classifyingmaterials and their properties Developing a more advanced understanding of changesin 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 asimple circuit Developing a more advanced understanding of what goeson in a simple circuit Developing an initial understanding of forces Developing a more advanced understanding of forces Developing an initial understanding of life processesand living things Developing a more advanced understanding of lifeprocesses and living things Further reading
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