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Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 5-7 Jules Pottle

Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 5-7 By Jules Pottle

Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 5-7 by Jules Pottle


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Science Fiction, Science Fact! is a book for story-loving primary teachers who want to find a creative way to teach science. The book contains a wide range of activities and investigations to help pupils engage in science learning, while also extending aspects of the English national curriculum.

Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 5-7 Summary

Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 5-7: Learning Science through Well-Loved Stories by Jules Pottle

Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 5-7 is a book for story-loving primary teachers who want to find a creative way to teach science. Contextualising science in a story that pupils know and love, the book contains a wide range of activities and investigations to help Key Stage 1 pupils engage in science learning, while also extending aspects of the English national curriculum.

The book offers valuable support to busy teachers and, by ensuring science lessons are enjoyable and accessible for pupils, helps children get involved in investigations in a way that is memorable for them. Using coloured illustrations and diagrams throughout, the book contains:

  • the relevant scientific context alongside a link to one of nine exciting children's stories;
  • clever and unique suggestions to 'storify the science';
  • instructions for teachers to give to their pupils;
  • tips on how to deliver the lesson in an immersive way;
  • guidance on assessing pupils' level of understanding.

Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 5-7 is packed full of ideas for weaving science into cross-curricular lessons, and is an invigorating and essential resource for Key Stage 1 teachers and science co-ordinators seeking to inject some creativity into their science lessons.

Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 5-7 Reviews

If you want to deliver superlative primary science lessons this is, without doubt, the book for you. Follow its example and you will teach children how to think.

A totally spellbinding fusion of story telling and science.

George McGavin, Honorary Research Associate, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and Senior Principal Research Fellow, Imperial College, UK

About Jules Pottle

Jules Pottle is a primary science specialist teacher with experience teaching in primary schools for over twenty years, and a trainer for Storytelling Schools, UK. She won the Primary Science Teaching Trust's Primary Science Teacher of the Year in 2015.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: How to Teach a Great Science Lesson Chapter 2: Dinosaur Road (carnivores, herbivores and senses) Chapter 3: Peace at Last (sound and hearing) Chapter 4: Traction Man is Here (properties of materials) Chapter 5: The Storm Whale in Winter (ice - melting and freezing) Chapter 6: The Tiny Seed (growing plants) Chapter 7: Goldilocks (healthy diet and exercise) Chapter 8: The Odd Egg (animal life cycles) Chapter 9: Pirates Love Underpants (science skills)

Additional information

NGR9781138290969
9781138290969
1138290963
Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 5-7: Learning Science through Well-Loved Stories by Jules Pottle
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2018-05-30
218
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