5 Summary

This unit has given you some strategies that use a variety of locally available resources to help you teach the topic of ‘life processes’. All of these strategies can be used to teach many other aspects of the science curriculum.

The main idea in the unit is that as a resourceful teacher you focus your thinking on the stance that ‘this is possible with some creative and imaginative thinking’ rather than ‘this is impossible because we don’t have that particular resource’. Changing your thinking might take a little time. Now that you have some experience you are already on the journey to becoming a resourceful teacher.