Product details in brief
Introduction
Thinking Skills Through Science is a resource for secondary science teachers to create challenging science lessons built on science thinking skills. Teaching science using thinking skills activities will develop transferable learning skills through interaction and independent learning.
Summary of contents
Thinking Skills Through Science combines thinking skills with subject-specific understanding. It consists of a series of science activities appropriate for Key Stage 3, which can also be adapted for older or younger pupils across a whole range of abilities. The activities link to QCA schemes of work and deal with the study of: cells, interdependence, energy, force and particles. Each of the 18 exemplars are reports of actual lessons and can be used in a variety of teaching situations.
Chapter breakdown
Introduction – what this book is about
Teaching thinking
How to use this book
Background and Methodology
Links with CASE
Teaching thinking can affect pupils’ learning
Reflective process and assessment
Thinking skills and the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3
CASE influence on lesson structure
Teacher behaviours
Definition of terms
Challenge and support
Adapting the exemplars
Lesson Structure
Introduction
Group work
Plenary (Debriefing)
Materials
Links
Bridging
Developing activities of your own
Table 1: Summary of Exemplars
Table 2: Summary of Exemplars
2 Developing Thinking in Teaching Science
Professional Development
Classroom observation
Curriculum Planning
Long term planning
Short/medium term planning
Planning checklist
Bridging
Examples based on conflict category
Examples based on specific exemplars
Cognitive Conflict
Science process
Understanding argument
Visual thinking and memory
3 The Exemplars
Exemplar 1 Alternative Science Theories
Exemplar 2 A Burning Candle
Exemplar 3 The Carbon Cycle
Exemplar 4 Climate Change
Exemplar 5 Diagram from Memory
Exemplar 6 Elements, Compounds and Mixtures
Exemplar 7 Energy Transformations
Exemplar 8 Evaluation of an Experimental Account
Exemplar 9 Floating and Sinking
Exemplar 10 Food Webs
Exemplar 11 Imagine You Are a Sperm Cell
Exemplar 12 The Solar System
Exemplar 13 Three Chemical Mysteries
Exemplar 14 Variation in Humans
Exemplar 15 What is Science?
Exemplar 16 What Might Have Happened?
Exemplar 17 Which Antacid Tablet is the Best?
Exemplar 18 Why Did the Dinosaurs Die Out?
4 References
Details
Spiral bound, 225 x 297, 172 Pages, Published 2004
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