Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 8–12 is a book for story-loving primary teachers who want to find a creative way to teach science. Contextualising science in a story that pupils know and love, the book contains a wide range of activities and investigations to help Key Stage 2 pupils engage in science learning, while also extending aspects of the English national curriculum.The book offers valuable support to busy teachers and, by ensuring science lessons are enjoyable and accessible for pupils, helps children get involved in investigations in a way that is memorable for them. Using coloured illustrations and diagrams throughout, the book contains:the relevant scientific context alongside a link to one of nine exciting children’s storiesclever and unique suggestions to ‘storify the science’instructions for teachers to give to their pupilstips on how to deliver the lesson in an immersive wayguidance on assessing pupils’ level of understandingScience Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 8–12 is packed full of ideas for weaving science into cross-curricular lessons, and is an invigorating and essential resource for Key Stage 2 teachers and science co-ordinators seeking to inject some creativity into their science lessons.
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Science Fiction, Science Fact! is a book for story-loving primary teachers who want to find a creative way to teach science. The book contains a wide range of activities and investigations to help Key Stage 2 pupils engage in science learning, while also extending aspects of the English national curriculum.
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Introduction Chapter 1: How to Teach a Great Science Lesson Chapter 2: The Black Rabbit (Light) Chapter 3: The Last Wild (Food chains, microbes, digestion, teeth) Chapter 4: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (changing materials) Chapter 5: Kensuke’s Kingdom (the water cycle) Chapter 6: The Northern Lights (forces) Chapter 7: Alice in Wonderland (science skills)
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If you want to deliver superlative primary science lessons this is, without doubt, the book for you. Follow its example and you will teach children how to think.A totally spellbinding fusion of story telling and science. George McGavin, Honorary Research Associate, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and Senior Principal Research Fellow, Imperial College, UK
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781138290945
Publisert
2018-05-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
670 gr
Høyde
297 mm
Bredde
210 mm
Aldersnivå
G, P, 01, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
222

Forfatter

Biographical note

Jules Pottle is a primary science specialist teacher with experience teaching in primary schools for over twenty years, and a trainer for Storytelling Schools, UK. She won the Primary Science Teaching Trust’s Primary Science Teacher of the Year in 2015.