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What do I need know about science to teach it effectively in primary schools? How do children learn about science? How do I teach it? What does a good primary science lesson look like? If you are a primary trainee with only a limited knowledge of science, his text will help you build the subject knowledge you need to transform your teaching and spark children's interest in science. Covering all of the areas of the new National Curriculum for primary science and offering insight into effective teaching, it helps you connect what you need to teach to how it can be taught. It highlights the opportunities in the new curriculum for creative and imaginative science teaching. It explores how you can introduce the way scientists work, how science ‘happens’ and how it connects to our world in your teaching. This text is a comprehensive guide to the teaching of primary science. It will help you secure your subject knowledge and transform your teaching. 10ss A guide to effective primary science teaching. All subject knowledge required to teach the new National Curriculum for primary science alongside an exploration of how children learn and how successful lessons can be shaped.
Working Scientifically
Working Scientifically
Learning Outcomes
By reading this chapter you will develop:
- an awareness of the importance of working scientifically;
- an understanding of the key scientific processes that underpin working scientifically;
- a knowledge of the progression in the process skills that underpin working scientifically;
- an understanding of effective pedagogic strategies for the teaching of working scientifically.
Teachers' Standards
- Promote good progress and outcomes by pupils
- be aware of pupils’ capabilities and plan teaching to build on these
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how pupils learn and how this impacts on teaching.
- Demonstrate good science subject and curriculum knowledge
- have a secure knowledge of science and foster and maintain pupils’ interest in science
- demonstrate a critical understanding of the developments in the subject and curriculum area.
Introduction
What is Science?
The biggest challenge for you as a teacher in the ...
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