Creativity in Primary Science (Exploring Primary Science and Technology)

✍ Scribed by Jenny Frost

• Publisher: Open U.P.
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 210
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

• How do primary teachers incorporate all the facets of science in their teaching? * How do primary teachers plan and replan their science teaching in the light of how children are learning? * How do primary teachers retain lively and imaginative science teaching within the constraints of a specified curriculum? This book is about the very best of primary classroom practice in science; six teachers, six schools, six science topics, with children from ages five to eleven years. The teaching and children's learning are described in a straightforward style, richly illustrated by pen and ink drawings made from photographs, and by examples of children's work. The author has provided a commentary on the particular classroom examples by linking them to a wider discussion of science in primary schools and by sharing the teachers' own rationale for their decisions. The book was written initially for beginning teachers, but experienced teachers who reviewed the drafts, welcomed the combination of 'real' classroom examples coupled with a more theoretical commentary. Above all, they welcomed the essence of the book which, as the opening sentence indicates, is "about creativity in teaching and a celebration of the skills and expertise of primary teachers in the area of science." The book will be invaluable reading for both trainee and practising primary school teachers.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Creativity in primary science......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 7
Series editor's preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Part 1......Page 16
1 Introduction — creativity in teaching......Page 18
2 Science education — aims and research......Page 26
Part 2 Case studies......Page 48
3 Parks, woods and wastelands......Page 50
4 Rabbit's House......Page 80
5 Ourselves......Page 96
6 The Channel tunnel......Page 120
7 The river Thames......Page 138
8 Seeing and light......Page 161
Part 3......Page 184
9 From action to reflection......Page 186
Bibliography......Page 198
Index......Page 202