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Misconceptions in Primary Science Michael Allen

Misconceptions in Primary Science By Michael Allen

Misconceptions in Primary Science by Michael Allen


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Summary

This essential book offers friendly support and practical advice for dealing with the common misconceptions encountered in the primary science classroom.

Misconceptions in Primary Science Summary

Misconceptions in Primary Science by Michael Allen

This essential book offers friendly support and practical advice for dealing with the common misconceptions encountered in the primary science classroom.

Most pupils will arrive at the science lesson with previously formed ideas, based on prior reasoning or experience. However these ideas are often founded on common misconceptions, which if left unexplained can continue into adulthood. This handy book offers advice for teachers on how to recognise and correct such misconceptions.

Key features include:

  • Examples from the entire range of QCA Scheme of Work topics for Key Stages 1 and 2
  • Practical strategies to improve pupils' learning
  • Support for teachers who want to improve their own scientific subject knowledge
Michael Allen describes over 100 common misconceptions and their potential origins, and then explains the correct principles. He suggests creative activities to help students to grasp the underlying scientific concepts and bring them alive in the classroom.

This easy to navigate guide is grouped into three parts; life processes and living things; materials and their properties; and physical processes.

About Michael Allen

Michael Allen is Lecturer in Science Education at Brunel University, UK and has a PhD in science education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
How to use this book

Part one
Introduction
A) How do people learn science?
B) How can we elicit, recognise and correct science misconceptions?

Part two
Life Processes and Living Things
1Concept of living
2Classification
3 Circulation
4Breathing
5Nutrition
6Feeding relationships
7Microbes and disease
8Heredity and variation

Part three
Materials and their properties

9Chemical changes in materials
10Particles
11States of matter
12Earth science

Part four
Physical processes

13Forces
14Floating and sinking
15Electricity and magnetism
16Light
17Sound
18Earth and space
19Heat

Science glossary
The relevance of the QCA primary science scheme of work topics to the misconception entries
Bibliography

Additional information

GOR004272047
9780335235889
0335235883
Misconceptions in Primary Science by Michael Allen
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Open University Press
2010-02-01
296
N/A
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