Teaching ScienceIdeas and help for trainee Science teachers

Just a quick post to mention some of the pseudoscience that accompanies talk of Brain Gym in schools, and a request to try and not get sucked into the hype. Brain Gym can be a quick way of breaking up a lesson with a short fun activity, and it is in this way that I have used some little “brain gym” style games in the past. But there is a lot of rubbish spoken about it too.

Brain Gym is being taught with pseudoscientific explanations that undermine science teaching and mislead children about how their bodies work.

Sense About Science have a great leaflet that debunks a lot of it, and also a link to the Newsnight report on the problems with brain gym.

Pass this on to your schools too.