Primary science : teaching the tricky bits / G.N. Rutledge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rutledge, G. N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Study and teaching (Primary).

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkshire, England : McGraw Hill : Open University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a combination of practical lesson ideas and theory, focusing particularly on those areas that research has shown most trainee primary teachers struggle with.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. How to use this book

3. How children learn

4. Ensuring an effective learning context

5. The relationship between science skills and knowledge and understanding

6. Developing an initial understanding of classifying materials and their properties

7. Developing an initial understanding of changes in materials

8. Developing a more advanced understanding of classifying materials and their properties

9. Developing a more advanced understanding of changes in materials

10. Developing a primary school model of thermal insulation

11. Developing a primary school model of magnetism

12. Developing an initial understanding of light

13. Developing a more advanced model for understanding light

14. Developing primary school models of Earth and beyond

15. Developing a primary school model of sound

16. Developing an initial understanding of what goes on in a simple circuit

17. Developing a more advanced understanding of what goes on in a simple circuit

18. Developing an initial understanding of forces

19. Developing a more advanced understanding of forces

20. Developing an initial understanding of life processes and living things

21. Developing a more advanced understanding of life processes and living things.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-34346-0

9786613343468

0-335-24039-9

OCLC:

701704773