Alternatives for Science Education
Alternatives for Science Education was produced and published by the Association for Science Education (ASE) in 1979. Its sub-title, A Consultative Document, indicates its aim and status. In addition to being a document of considerable historical interest, it contains arguments of continued relevance. The working group that produced…
With Objectives in Mind
The Science 5/13 book With objectives in mind states the education convictions underpinning the project as being that: • In general, children work best when trying to find answers to problems that they have themselves chosen to investigate. • There problems are best drawn from their own environment and tackled largely…
Using the Environment 2: Investigations Part 1
The Science 5/13 unit Using the environment 2: investigations part 1 contains many questions and suggestions designed to help children work actively and purposefully in depth. This is most likely to happen when children find something of particular interest. The focus of part one of this unit is to ensure that this interest leads…
Like and Unlike, Stages One, Two and Three
This Science 5/13 unit for teachers Like and unlike stages one, two and three has a wider range in the suggested activities than most other units, covering stage three (transition to abstract thinking) as well as the two earlier stages. There are two chapters (Chapters 2 and 4), which are written particularly to suggests topics which…
Match and Mismatch: Raising Questions - Leader’s Guide
The Progress in Learning Science book entitled Match and Mismatch: Raising Questions: Leader’s Guide is in two parts. The first provides notes and suggestions for continuing professional development (CPD) leaders about the organisation of timing and use of materials. The second part reproduces the material in the teachers’…
Match and Mismatch: Finding Answers
The Progress in Learning Science book for teachers entitled Match and Mismatch: Finding Answers provides information about the kind of learning experiences which are likely to help children at various point in their progress towards their learning goals in science. It thus complements Match and Match: Raising Questions which focuses…
Match and Mismatch: Raising Questions
The Progress in Learning Science book for teachers entitled Match and Mismatch: Raising Questions is a collection of information, guidance and points for discussion about children’s learning, development and classroom provision for progress. This material is organised in 20 topics, grouped into two introductory topics and three…
Using the Environment 4: Ways and Means
The unit Ways and means, from Science 5/13, deals with the provision of facilities, equipment and raw materials children need for all stages of their outdoor investigations and for resulting activities on their return to school. While the suggestions for plants in the school grounds will remain appropriate he information provided…
Using the Environment 2: Investigations Part 2
The Science 5/13 unit Using the environment 2: investigations part 2 follows on from part one focusing on what and how children can investigate in the outside environment. The first three chapters are concerned with helping children to become more aware of the things that change: the weather, living things and the landscape. Two…
Science 5/13: a Formative Evaluation
A Formative Evaluation of the Science 5-13 project is a book of 128 pages, published by Macmillan education in 1975. It describes the evaluation which took place throughout the project and which fed information from trials into the revision of the Science 5/13 Units for teachers. It records the history, aims and procedures of the…