Materials Teachers' Guide (Ages 7-12)

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This Nuffield Primary Science Teachers’ Guide for teaching the Materials topic, to students aged 7-12, is divided into five chapters:

• Chapter 1: Introduction - covering useful strategies, the SPACE approach and links to the National Curriculum

• Chapter 2: Planning - using the resources to plan topics with students' ideas in mind, the use of ICT and the development of cross-curricula topics.

• Chapter 3: Exploring materials – 3.1 Properties and uses of materials; 3.2 Solids, liquids and gases; 3.3 Changing materials

• Chapter 4: Assessment - examples with ways of matching evidence of students' achievements with the targets of the National Curriculum

• Chapter 5: Background science - explaining the scientific view of the content of the theme.

URL: http://stem.org.uk/rx45j

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