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9780335222285

Primary Science Teaching the Tricky Bits

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  • ISBN13:

    9780335222285

  • ISBN10:

    0335222285

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-10-01
  • Publisher: Open Univ Pr
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Summary

This book provides a combination of practical lesson ideas and theory, focusing particularly on those areas that research has shown most trainee primary teachers struggle with. Each chapter provides a good range of practical and accessible ideas, hints and tips linked to how children learn. Thus there are lots of practical ideas on: How to effectively pre-assess the children's ideas Misconceptions likely to be encountered and how to challenge them Detailed summary of conceptual progress with advice on translating this into learning objectives, along with outline activities to achieve these Effective models/ideas for aiding children's understanding.

Author Biography

Neil Rutledge is Senior Lecturer in Science at the University of Cumbria, UK and also runs Science CPD programmes for Cumbria LEA and for the Scsience Learning Centre. He has been nominated for the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. vii
Introductionp. 1
How to use this bookp. 3
How children learnp. 7
Ensuring an effective learning contextp. 12
The relationship between science skills and knowledge and understandingp. 15
Developing an initial understanding of classifying materials and their propertiesp. 17
Developing an initial understanding of changes in materialsp. 28
Developing a more advanced understanding of classifying materials and their propertiesp. 35
Developing a more advanced understanding of changes in materialsp. 42
Developing a primary school model of thermal insulationp. 56
Developing a primary school model of magnetismp. 67
Developing an initial understanding of lightp. 76
Developing a more advanced model for understanding lightp. 84
Developing primary school models of Earth and beyondp. 96
Developing a primary school model of soundp. 108
Developing an initial understanding of what goes on in a simple circuitp. 116
Developing a more advanced understanding of what goes on in a simple circuitp. 127
Developing an initial understanding of forcesp. 149
Developing a more advanced understanding of forcesp. 158
Developing an initial understanding of life processes and living thingsp. 177
Developing a more advanced understanding of life processes and living thingsp. 188
Further readingp. 197
Indexp. 199
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