Creative Ways To Teach Primary Science
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2014
186 pages
978-0-335-24766-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is intended to encourage creativity and experimentation in teaching primary science, which are regularly recognised as features of outstanding teaching.
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Alan Cross | Jon Board
Creative Ways to Teach Primary Science
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10/2014
Open University Press
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Content
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Praise
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Creativity in primary science
- Introduction
- Creative teachers
- Science and creativity
- What can help me?
- Making science a creative subject
- Learner creativity in science
- Teacher creativity in developing learner creativity
- Forms of creativity
- Conclusion
- 2 Children as real scientists
- Pupils contribute directly to the work of professional scientists
- Children as researchers
- Children in control
- Writing/thinking frames
- Safety
- Conclusion
- 3 A creative approach to working scientifically: putting children in the driving seat
- Introduction
- Why do children need to be in the driving seat?
- Creative teaching that develops independent learning
- Teaching the scientific process: it's not just fair testing!
- Creative planning to encourage curiosity
- Challenging children's misconceptions
- Teachers as questioners
- Making it manageable
- Creative learning that develops autonomy
- Conclusion
- 4 ICT and computing
- Computing
- Computers and learners' science
- Conclusion
- 5 Using children's literature, stories, poetry and songs
- Conclusion
- 6 Models and analogies
- When are models and analogies useful?
- Analogy or model?
- It's only a model!
- Misconceptions
- Using creative approaches to make models and analogies more effective
- Assessment for learning
- Some examples of models and analogies by topic
- Conclusion
- 7 Images in science lessons
- Conclusion
- 8 Demonstrations
- Using demonstrations to stimulate creative discussion
- Making demonstrations creative
- Ideas for creative demonstrations
- 9 Dance and drama
- Role play
- Conclusion
- 10 Playground science
- Collaborative learning and playground science
- A creative playground science lesson
- More examples of playground science activities
- Conclusion
- 11 Thinking frames
- Thinking together
- Question matrix
- Conclusion
- 12 Cross-curricular science
- Background
- Why teach cross-curricular science?
- Cross- curricular learning and creativity
- Making cross-curricular science effective
- Planning for cross-curricular science
- Science and the core skills
- Examples of cross-curricular science
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
