Mastering Primary Science

Description

Mastering Primary Science introduces the primary science curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make science learning irresistible. Topics covered include: * Current developments in primary science * Science as an irresistible activity * Science as a practical activity * Skills to develop in science * Promoting curiosity * Assessing children in science * Practical issues This guide includes examples of children's work, case studies, readings to reflect upon and reflective questions that all help to exemplify what is considered to be best and most innovative practice. The book draws on the experience of two leading professionals in primary science, Amanda McCrory and Kenna Worthington, to provide the essential guide to teaching science for all trainee and qualified primary teachers.

Amanda McCrory is Lecturer in Early Years and Primary Education at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. Kenna Worthington is Lecturer in Early Years and Primary Education at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.

A pleasingly thought-provoking text for both training and serving primary teachers. Each chapter begins by hovering above personal and curricular constraints, bristling with challenging questions, only then to zoom onto practice-based ideas with professional clarity and detail. Amanda McCrory and Kenna Worthington's "can-do" tone is infectious, the classroom-focused activities make a strong case for durable engagement with science by children and teachers. * Mike Watts, Professor of Science Education, Brunel University, UK * An excellent textbook which is well written and which promotes the "thinking doing talking science" pedagogy. It is concise with good examples throughout and really uses the idea of teaching science in a way that it will be engaging for pupils and their teachers ... Its use of case studies and "Pause for Thought" boxes help the reader to reflect on the examples and consider how this relates to their own teaching. A great book for encouraging student teachers to be excellent practitioners. * Mary Hutchings, Senior Lecturer in Primary Science, Oxford Brookes University, UK *