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150 Practical Activities for Primary Science

150 Practical Activities for Primary Science

Science Resources, Teaching Guides

150 Practical Activity Ideas for Primary Science is packed with simple, engaging ideas to help bring science to life in the primary classroom. Whether you are looking for a quick activity to introduce a topic, an investigation to develop scientific thinking, or a...
The book saved from the cutting room floor

The book saved from the cutting room floor

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When I handed the first draft of Science Fix to my publisher, it was too long. Considerably too long. In fact, 30,000 words too long! That is a fairly ordinary problem for a first book, and the solution was the obvious one. Something had to go. What went was the...
Scientists Don’t Look Like That | Destroying Classroom Stereotypes

Scientists Don’t Look Like That | Destroying Classroom Stereotypes

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Ask your class to draw a scientist. Go on, try it. Chances are you’ll get a lot of white men in lab coats, wild hair, bubbling beakers, and the occasional explosion. It’s a well-worn activity, but its results still tell us something important about the messages our...
How to Get Started as a Primary Science Subject Leader

How to Get Started as a Primary Science Subject Leader

Teaching Guides

Taking on science subject leadership in a primary school is one of those roles that sounds straightforward until you actually sit down and work out what it involves. The job description tends to be vague. The handover is often minimal. And the expectation that you...
Ask Better Questions in Science: A Guide for Primary Teachers

Ask Better Questions in Science: A Guide for Primary Teachers

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Why the Questions You Ask Matter More Than You Think Most primary teachers ask a lot of questions. Research suggests it can be close to 400 a day. But quantity and quality are different things, and in science lessons particularly, the type of question you ask has a...
AI-generated science lessons: 3 things to check

AI-generated science lessons: 3 things to check

AI in Science, Teaching Guides

AI tools can produce a lesson plan in about 30 seconds. For a primary teacher working through a planning session on a Tuesday evening, that is an appealing proposition. But the speed at which these tools generate content is also part of the problem: they produce...
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