Summary
Contents
Subject index
Science for Primary and Early Years is a comprehensive guide to the subject knowledge requirements for the teaching of science in early years settings and elementary schools. This second edition consists of activities to help the reader extend their own understanding of science. Part One explores understanding the nature of science, processes of planning, carrying out and evaluating scientific investigations, collecting and using data, hypothesizing, predicting, fair testing, use of correct terminology and understanding health and safety as well as key ideas in science that underpin subject knowledge. Part Two builds on these ideas as it explores in more detail life and living processes, the environment, electricity and magnetism, light, sound and the earth in space. This is a set book for the UK's Open University Course, 'Ways of Knowing: language, mathematics and science in the early years'.
Part 2
Part 2
This section of the book looks at specific science topic areas, building on the key ideas of science presented in Part 1.
In Chapter 5 the emphasis is on living things and how they carry out the necessary functions to live. It explores the characteristics of living things and how plants and animals carry out these functions to stay alive and what it means to be healthy.
Chapters 6 and 7 explore the large concepts of continuity and change by looking at the diversity of plants and animal life and how characteristics are passed from generation to generation. How these characteristics can change leads into the way animals and plants interact within their environment. Key concepts of ecology are briefly studied to build a ...
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