Teaching Primary Science - Promoting Enjoyment and Developing Understanding

Informationen zum Autor The authors! who specialise in primary science and science education! worked together at the University of Northampton and are currently engaged in educational consultancy in the UK and overseas. Their main research interests and publications are concerned with promoting the value of social learning! more specifically the effective use of talk for learning and story-telling strategies Klappentext 2nd edition of this interactive! full-colour textbook aimed at those training to teach primary science. Zusammenfassung 'Thought-provoking and entices the reader to take a discerning look at science.' Claire Garven! MA Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England! Bristol! UK. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Theory and practice 1. The pleasure of finding things out 2. Views of science learning 3. Organising how children learn science 4. Scientific understanding and mental models 5. Talk for learning in science 6. Scientific enquiry and the passionately curious 7. Planning and assessing children's science learning 8. Learning outside the classroom 9. The origins of scientific knowledge Part 2 Subject knowledge and ideas for practice 10. The Earth and beyond 11. Energy and the well-being of the planet 12. Interdependence 13. Diversity 14. Adaptation and evolution 15. Health and well-being 16. The particle nature of materials 17. Changing materials 18. Electricity and magnetism 19. Forces and motion 20. Light 21. Sound

Product details

• Authors: Lyn Dawes, Peter Loxley, Peter Dawes Loxley, Linda Nicholls
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.2013
• EAN: 9780273772989
• ISBN: 978-0-273-77298-9
• No. of pages: 440
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology