Primary science: supporting children’s learning
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Science subject knowledge
    • 1.1 Attitudes to science
    • 1.2 The nature of scientific knowledge
    • 1.3 Seeing the bigger picture
  • 2 Subject knowledge and teaching and learning
    • 2.1 Getting a sense of scale
    • 2.2 Scientific vocabulary
    • 2.3 Classification: order or confusion?
    • 2.4 Conceptual development
    • 2.5 Constructivism and science
  • 3 Discovering children’s ideas
    • 3.1 Children expressing their ideas
    • 3.2 Concept mapping
    • 3.3 Constructing a concept map
    • 3.4 Uses of concept mapping
  • 4 Using models in science
    • 4.1 Modelling electricity
    • 4.2 Sweets and cups model 
    • 4.3 Rope model 
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Acknowledgements

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