Learning Through Science
Learning Through Science was a project initially sponsored by the Schools Council and the Scottish Education Department. Later it came under the aegis of the School Curriculum Development Committee. Its aims were to help teachers of children between the ages of eight and thirteen to learn science through first-hand experience using…
Progress in Learning Science (Match and Mismatch)
The Progress in Learning Science project was sponsored by the Schools Council, 1973-77. It produced materials for use in professional development courses in teaching science for primary and middle school teachers. The materials aimed to help teachers to gather and use information about the development of children’s scientific…
Science 5/13
The Science 5/13 project, 1967 to 1975, was sponsored by the Schools Council, the Nuffield Foundation and the Scottish Education Department. It was the first project to state explicitly what it was hoped children aged 5-13 would achieve through work in science. This was set out in the guidelines to Objectives for Children Learning…