Practical Ideas for Teaching Primary Science

Aimed at trainees and teachers, this up to date text addresses primary science teaching in light of the new primary National Curriculum and the latest Teachers’ Standards, providing creative, inspiring and practical ideas and approaches for teaching the full range of science topics.

This up-to-date text addresses primary science teaching in light of the UK''s new primary National Curriculum and the latest Teachers'' Standards. Aimed at primary trainees and teachers, the book provides creative, inspiring, and practical ideas and approaches for teaching the full range of science topics. Each chapter is aligned to an area of the UK''s new National Curriculum and provides key vocabulary, details of common misconceptions and how to address them, teaching strategies and activities, cross-curricular links, and health and safety points. Throughout, there is a strong focus on science subject knowledge development and how to translate this into practice in the primary classroom. The book also encourages readers to reflect on their own subject knowledge of science and challenges them to critically evaluate their teaching in order to become more effective.

• | Author: Colin Howard, Vivian Cooke
• | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jun 10, 2014
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781909682290
• | ISBN-10: 1909682292