Practical Ideas for Teaching Primary Science

Vivian Cooke, Colin Howard

• Publisher: Critical Publishing
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781909682320
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

This up to date text addresses primary science teaching in light of the new primary National Curriculum and the latest Teachers' Standards. Aimed at primary trainees and teachers, it provides creative, inspiring and practical ideas and approaches for teaching the full range of science topics. Each chapter is aligned to an area of the new National Curriculum and provides key vocabulary, details of common misconceptions and how to address them, teaching strategies and activities, cross-curricular links and health and safety points. Throughout there is a strong focus on science subject knowledge development and how to translate this into practice in the primary classroom. The book also encourages readers to reflect on their own subject knowledge of science and challenges them to critically evaluate their teaching in order to become more effective.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgements
• Meet the authors
• Introduction
• 1 The nature of science teaching and working scientifically
• 2 What makes an effective science lesson?
• 3 Animals and humans
• 4 Plants, habitats and living things
• 5 Evolution and inheritance
• 6 Everyday materials and their properties
• 7 Earth and space
• 8 Rocks
• 9 Light
• 10 Forces, motion and magnets
• 11 Sound
• 12 Electricity
• Index