Teaching ScienceIdeas and help for trainee Science teachers

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

Quick links to the Primary Science POS here:

KS1 Science Programme of Study

KS2 Science Programme of Study

Also for information here are the links to the new, revised, KS3 Frameworks (new for 2008)

Framework for Secondary Science

Secondary Science Overview (pdf)

KS3 Science Programme of Study