Here are a few links to useful resources for teaching Science in the Foundation Stage.
Early Years Foundation Stage Website
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Outdoor Play – The Unique Value of the Outside Environment – South Glos Council
What Do We Know About Teaching Young Children? – Tricia David
Another term starts and so I’d like to say a big Hello to a new group of Scitt students. I’m looking forward to helping you find out more about science teaching over the next 10 months or so.
Here are a few links that were mentioned during the session today:
To get an online version of the Primary Science schemes of work, go here: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/science/?view=get
To get online versions of the National Curriculum folders, go to: http://curriculum.qca.org.uk/key-stages-1-and-2/subjects/index.aspx
The countdown timer for the timed tasks, came from here: http://www.classtools.net/
The Science materials for Self-Study produced by SCicentre can be found here: http://www.le.ac.uk/se/centres/sci/selfstudy/selfstudy.html
The “Welcome to Science” document written by Phil Plait of BadAstronomy.com doesn’t seem to be on his site anymore, but it can be found online here: http://www.mysteryinvestigators.com/archive0805.htm
We didn’t do a VAK (Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic) test, but if you’d like to try an online one, I’ve found one here you can try out: http://www.brainboxx.co.uk/A3_ASPECTS/pages/VAK_quest.htm
The Diet Coke and Mentos experts are Eepy Bird and they can be found at: http://www.eepybird.com, and if you want to see the Mythbusters explore what is going on with the coke and the mentos (which we didn’t discuss today, but will do in day 3) then you can see the video here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kMXPOqovSBs
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