All Around
The Learning Through Science teachers’ guide and pupils’ assignment cards for the unit All Around give suggestions for activities children could undertake. The cards are divided into groups according to their subject: science on the doorstep, looking at plants and looking at animals. On the cards the grouping is denoted…
Ourselves
The Learning Through Science teachers’ guides and pupils’ assignment cards for the unit Ourselves give suggestions for activities that children could undertake. The cards are divided into groups which relate to each other in subject areas, such as sight, hearing, feeling, smelling, etc. These divisions are denoted by…
Using the Environment 3: Tackling Problems Part 2
The activities described in the Science 5/13 units Using the environment 3: tackling problems are designed for children aged 9-13, when they are becoming more capable of thinking logically and begin to speculate about the causes of phenomena and how their ideas could be tested. The work described takes children and teachers beyond…
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…