Teaching Primary Science: Promoting Enjoyment and Developing Understanding

✍ Scribed by Peter Loxley, Lyn Dawes, Linda Nicholls, Babs Dore

• Publisher: Pearson Education Ltd
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 393
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Primary Science: Promoting positive attitudes to conceptual learningis a full colour, core textbook to support, inform and inspire anyone training to teach Science at primary level. This book is a new kind of text linking subject knowledge and pedagogy in one package, rather than treating them as separate entities. The text aims to encourage trainee teachers to teach scientific concepts in contexts which will inspire the children to look at the world in new and intriguing ways, rather than presenting it as a list of facts and definitions. Encouraging critical reflection and offering practical support, this book will help trainee teachers to overcome negative attitudes to Science. The two part structure of the book first presents insights into the nature of science and science education, exploring issues such as the value and purpose of teaching Science in the primary school and the value of scientific enquiry. It then moves on to cover subject knowledge, relating it to pedagogy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Teaching primary science : promoting enjoyment and developing
understanding......Page 4
Bief Contents......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of photos, illustrations and tables......Page 14
Guided tour......Page 19
Preface......Page 23
Acknowledgements......Page 24
Publisher’s acknowledgements......Page 25
Part 1: Theory and practice......Page 28
1 The pleasure of finding things out......Page 30
2 Organising how children learn science......Page 40
3 Scientific understanding and mental models......Page 52
4 Talk for learning in science......Page 63
5 Scientific enquiry and the passionately curious......Page 72
6. Planning and assessing children’s science learning......Page 89
7 The origins of scientific knowledge......Page 106
Part 2: Subject knowledge and ideas for practice......Page 124
8 The Earth and beyond......Page 126
9 Energy and the well-being of the planet......Page 151
10 Interdependence......Page 176
11 Diversity......Page 197
12 Adaptation and evolution......Page 215
13 Health and well-being......Page 238
14 The particle nature of materials......Page 258
15 Changing materials......Page 277
16 Electricity and magnetism......Page 296
17 Forces and motion......Page 316
18 Light......Page 336
19 Sound......Page 357
References......Page 377
Glossary......Page 381
Index......Page 387