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 Science : Planning and Investigations
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Differentiated Science Inquiry
This book will help primary school teachers of science gain the skills and knowledge needed to both incorporate inquiry-based instruction into their classrooms and to differentiate such instruction to more effectively meet the needs of all students. The author introduces differentiated inquiry and show teachers how to develop and customize learning choices that best fit their students’ individual styles and comfort levels.
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Teaching, Learning and Assessing Science
The author details a constructivist view of learning, which recognizes that children already have ideas about the world in which they live, and gives advice on how teachers can help children to develop their understanding and change their perception to a more scientific view. A particular feature is the focus on formative assessment as a framework for discussion on how to help students develop their understanding, enquiry skills and positive attitudes to scientific investigation.
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Science 5-11
Offering a practical and innovative guide which is ideal for students, trainee and practising teachers, the book provides full information on the appropriate science topics for Key Stage 1 and 2, outlining the subject knowledge that a teacher needs, the curriculum requirements and the best ways to go about teaching, with an emphasis on practical science enquiry.
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Teaching Science Creatively
Explores how creative teaching can harness primary-aged children’s sense of wonder about the world around them. It offers innovative starting points to enhance your teaching and highlights curiosity, observation, exploration and enquiry as central components of children’s creative learning in science.
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50 Science Things to Make and Do
These cards bring a fresh and exciting approach to the practical world of science, combining creative arts and crafts activities with the basics of physics, chemistry and biology. This title contains 50 stimulating and original activities, including foaming monsters, hanging crystals and kaleidoscopes. Each activity is safe and simple to carry out using the step-by-step instructions and uses objects and materials that can be easily found. The cards are durable and robust, making them ideal for repeated use.
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Essential Primary Science
If you are teaching or learning to teach primary science, this is the toolkit to support you! Not only does it cover the essential knowledge and understanding that you need to know, it also offers over 200 great ideas for teaching primary science - so no more late nights thinking up creative new ways to teach key concepts!
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Jumpstart! Science
Provides teachers with a range of lively, short, fun activities and games to support teaching and learning in different aspects of the science curriculum. It encourages teachers to develop creative approaches to motivating and engaging children in science. The activities are aimed at a number of areas of science from learning scientific words to recalling information and problem solving.
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Misconceptions in Primary Science
Michael Allen describes over 100 common misconceptions and their potential origins, and then explains the correct principles. He suggests creative activities to help students to grasp the underlying scientific concepts and bring them alive in the classroom. This easy to navigate guide is grouped into three parts; life processes and living things; materials and their properties; and physical processes.
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Planning to Teach Science in the Primary Classroom
This great resource gives teachers, particularly non-specialist science teachers and trainee-teachers, both pedagogical knowledge and ideas for teaching science within one, practical book. The book is full of notes for teachers, ideas for activities and copy masters and is and ideal resource to dip into at the planning stage, as the stimulus for sessions or to support existing schemes of work
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Art of Creative Teaching: Primary Science
In a world driven by testing and assessment, there is often very little opportunity or time to explore new, creative and more effective approaches to teaching science at a primary level. In response to this, Alan Haigh has written a book that will equip you with the science knowledge, skills and confidence to plan your own lessons, teach creatively and encourage a discovery approach to learning. This book will not only improve your teaching of science but will make it hugely enjoyable to boot.
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Understanding Primary Science
Shaped by the National Curriculum, this text explains key scientific theories and concepts which pupils at primary level, including very able children, need in order to understand the observations and investigations they undertake. A CD Rom of 200 science investigations for young students is included with the new edition, allowing teachers to explore the practical application of topics covered in the book.
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The Teaching of Science in Primary Schools
The new edition of this best-selling textbook provides an up-to-date discussion of the many aspects of teaching primary science, maintaining its strong focus on constructivist learning and the role of social interaction in learning. With emphasis on the child-centred approach, the book also promotes the importance of fostering motivation for learning through enjoyment and giving children some control of their activities.
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Science Homework for Key Stage 2
It’s a suite of activities, aligned to the national literacy strategy topic areas, that teachers can use as extension activities or give to pupils to do independently at home. Best of all the activities will foster active and collaborative learning in pupils and are easy and quick for teachers to manage.
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Science Formative Assessment
This essential resource provides primary and secondary teachers with 75 user-friendly strategies for using formative assessment to enhance science teaching and learning. The author addresses how to balance opportunity to learn with assessment of learning and describes a rich repertoire of purposeful methods that weave assessment throughout teaching and learning. The book provides guidelines to help teachers become more aware of the different ideas students bring to their learning, see the connections between learners' thinking and the specific ideas included in standards, and provide learning experiences that build a bridge between students' thinking and accepted scientific ideas.
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Science for Primary and Early Years
A comprehensive guide to the subject knowledge requirements for the teaching of science in early years settings and primary schools. This Second Edition consists of activities to help the reader extend his/her 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.
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Progression in Primary Science
Using straightforward language and many examples drawn from classroom practice, this text has been designed to support and extend the student teacher's own subject knowledge and understanding of science in the context of the primary classroom.
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