The fourth edition of Teaching Secondary Science has been fully updated and includes a wide range of new material. This invaluable resource offers a new collection of sample lesson plans and includes two new chapters covering effective e-learning and advice on supporting learners with English as a second language. It continues as a comprehensive guide for all aspects of science teaching, with a focus on understanding pupils’ alternative frameworks of belief, the importance of developing or challenging them and the need to enable pupils to take ownership of scientific ideas. This new edition supports all aspects of teaching science in a stimulating environment, enabling pupils to understand their place in the world and look after it.
Key features include:
Illustrative and engaging lesson plans for use in the classroom
Help for pupils to construct new scientific meanings
M-level support materials
Advice on teaching ‘difficult ideas’ in biology, chemistry, physics and earth sciences
Education for sustainable development and understanding climate change
Managing the science classroom and health and safety in the laboratory
Support for talk for learning, and advice on numeracy in science
New chapters on e-learning and supporting learners with English as a second language.
Presenting an environmentally sustainable, global approach to science teaching, this book emphasises the need to build on or challenge children’s existing ideas so they better understand the world in which they live. Essential reading for all students and practising science teachers, this invaluable book will support those undertaking secondary science PGCE, school-based routes into teaching and those studying at Masters level.
Author(s): Keith Ross, Liz Lakin, Janet McKechnie, Jim Baker
Edition: 4th
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 272
Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of illustrations......Page 8
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
List of abbreviations......Page 14
PART I Science and Why We Teach It......Page 16
1 What Makes a Good Science Teacher?......Page 18
2 Working Scientifically......Page 25
3 Science Education and Sustainability......Page 38
PART II How Pupils Make Sense of Their World......Page 44
4 Learning through Language and Observation......Page 46
5 Elicitation: Pupils’ Ideas of the World......Page 56
6 Constructing Meaning: How Pupils Learn......Page 72
7 Active Learning Techniques......Page 79
8 Learning through Talking......Page 86
9 Learning through Reading......Page 93
10 Learning through Writing......Page 100
11 Harnessing the Power of Computers and the Web......Page 106
12 What if English is Not the Mother Tongue of Your Students?......Page 117
13 Numeracy in Science......Page 121
PART III Knowledge and Understanding: Difficult Ideas......Page 130
14 Difficult Ideas in Chemistry......Page 132
15 Difficult Ideas in Physics......Page 151
16 Difficult Ideas in Biology......Page 161
17 Difficult Ideas in Earth Science and Astronomy......Page 173
PART IV Planning, Assessment, Teaching and Classroom Management......Page 182
18 Planning for Progression......Page 184
19 Assessment for Learning (AfL)......Page 191
20 Managing Pupils in Science Lessons......Page 199
21 Health, Safety and Laboratory Management......Page 209
22 Teaching and Learning Beyond 16......Page 223
PART V Professional Values and the Wider World......Page 228
23 Inclusion and Science for All: ‘Every Child Matters’......Page 230
24 Learning Outside the Classroom......Page 241
25 Becoming a Professional Science Teacher......Page 250
References......Page 263
Index......Page 267
