Age Range:

Suitable for pupils age 8-12

Authors:

Anne Goldsworthy & Bob Ponchaud

CPD Support:

CPD is available to support this resource – email us

Price:

£25.00

‘Children have never had so much fun learning about science enquiry.’

Science Enquiry Games is an inspiring and motivating resource designed to help children in primary schools develop and consolidate their understanding of science enquiry. The photocopiable book contains 9 strategies that can be used in various ways to help children review and develop science enquiry skills.
Each strategy is based around games where children get actively involved. At least two alternative approaches are presented for each strategy (e.g. children moving around the room version, or play on table top version).

Electronic (PDF) versions of all resources needed to play the highly active games are included on the accompanying CD.

‘All you need for understanding the mechanics of science enquiry skills’

Quote from ASE’s Journal for Primary Science, Issue 106 – Jan 2009. Click here to see full review

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Age Range:

Suitable for pupils age 4-7

Authors:

Kate Blacklock, Debbie Eccles & Anne Goldsworthy, with illustrations & support by Tanya Shields

CPD Support:

CPD is available to support this resource – email us

Price:

£25.00

‘A pack full of games for learning science enquiry skills.’

We all know how important it is to teach children the skills of science enquiry. This pack gives you great ideas for teaching young children scientific skills through games and other stimulating activities.

From asking questions to measuring with non-standard units, this resource offers a variety of novel and exciting games to play with your class. There are eight different games on offer, each one created to help children learn a different science skill.

Concise teacher’s notes for each game will tell you:

• What it is
• Why it is important
• How to play the game
• About the resources needed to play each game
• Some further activities to extend the ideas
• All the necessary printable resources are provided on the accompanying CD.

This pack will be extremely useful for anyone who wants to teach science skills effectively whilst keeping their class actively engaged in enjoyable activities.

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Age Range:

Most suitable for pupils age 8-14, but can be used outside this age range.

Authors:

B Keogh, S Naylor, E Hankey & J Williams.

CPD Support:

CPD is available as part of the Concept Cartoon project.

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‘It’s the perfect project for the summer term . . . and beyond!’

With 2012 London Olympics fast approaching, everyone is on the lookout for relevant resources. Why not try these free samples of ‘Concept Cartoons – Talking sport and fitness’ from Millgate House Education and the Association for Science Education?

This all-new, innovative, science-focussed cross-curricular resource is full of topical problems that include mathematics, history, geography and ethical issues as well. The full set will be available to buy soon. Sign up to our newsletter or follow us on Twitter if you’d like more information on the availability of this exciting new resource.

Concept Cartoons are quick, simple and effective. They are designed to intrigue, provoke discussion and stimulate thinking. Concept Cartoons make concepts problematic and provide an engaging stimulus for learning. Every Concept Cartoon is guaranteed to provoke ferocious discussion and leave children wanting to find out more!

Created by Brenda Keogh and Stuart Naylor, Concept Cartoons have been thoroughly researched in classrooms around the world. Simple cartoon-style drawings present learners with their own misconceptions and generate discussion and argument. They are remarkably easy to use in the classroom as a part of normal teaching.

Background text, written in pupil-friendly language, is provided. This suggests possible follow up activities and explains the science behind the different alternatives.

NOTE: Produced by Millgate House Education Ltd in partnership with the Association for Science Education (www.ase.org.uk) and Schoolscience (www.schoolscience.co.uk).

Age Range:

Suitable for children age 3-7

Authors:

Gaynor Weavers

CPD Support:

CPD is available to support this resource – email us

Price:

£29.00

‘These attention-grabbing activities engage and inspire young children.‘

This eye-catching book is filled with delightful and easy to use starting points to encourage your children to observe, think and talk. Children will enjoy exploring and extending their ideas through to an imaginative range of Active Assessment strategies – assessment for learning in science made manageable for young children.

There are 26 sections. Each section contains:

• Stimulating activities
• Guidelines for how to use the activities
• Suggestions for what the learning outcomes might be and how to recognise children’s thinking and learning
• Illustrations of children’s responses
• Active Assessment strategies to use as extension activities

The site licensed CD contains printable activity sheets and other printable resources to use with the activities.

‘An innovative CD and book for developing observational, thinking and discussion skills in the early years; packed with engaging activities’

Quote from ASE’s Journal for Primary Science, Issue 111 – Jan 2010. Click here to see full review

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Age Range:

Most suitable for pupils age 3 – 11, but can be used outside this age range

Authors:

Jane Turner, Brenda Keogh, Stuart Naylor & Liz Lawrence

CPD Support:

CPD is available to support this resource – email us (LINK TO BE)

Price:

£25.00

This book is about science enquiry. It describes different types of science enquiry, how they help with developing understanding and how children’s scientific enquiry skills develop. It will help you to broaden the range of science enquiries that your children experience.

It is for all primary teachers and student teachers who want to know more about science enquiry and how to make it purposeful, and for subject leaders who want to lead science effectively in their schools.

Each chapter contains:

• information about each type of enquiry
• a wealth of starting point ideas
• engaging activities for children from Foundation Stage to the end of primary
• progression grids
• suggestions for assessment evidence.

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This interactive and engaging course, designed specifically for trainee teachers, helps them to make more sense of teaching and learning in mathematics and science. It offers a range of simple, accessible strategies to get pupils thinking, talking and sharing their ideas. It helps them to make sense of effective teaching and learning and to put it into practice. It builds on recent research into dialogic teaching and assessment for learning, and helps trainee teachers to understand how they can put research into practice in the classroom. The course draws on two of our highly successful projects, Active Assessment and Concept Cartoons.

Resources are available to trainee teachers at a substantial discount to support this course.

On this course you will:

• Gain direct experience of using active learning techniques
• Explore what makes effective teaching
• Learn quick, simple and effective ways to take pupils’ ideas into account in your everyday teaching
• Learn simple ways to engage learners and to develop their understanding
• Understand how to put assessment for learning into practice in a way that is manageable
• Discover small changes that can make a big difference to classroom practice.

Target audience:

Primary and secondary trainee teachers

This course normally lasts a minimum of half a day, but can be for a full day or part of a larger programme. It will be tailored to meet the needs of your organisation rather than ‘off the shelf’.

Available for:

How to book this course:

Contact Jo Williams, Tel 01270 764314, to dicuss how this course can help to inspire trainee teachers and transform their teaching, and to find out how you can access the special funding arrangements we have for trainee teacher courses.

This term our teacher has showed us how to turn the reading bits into pictures and tables and then it makes more sense. Now we can remember the bits we’re supposed to have learned. (Secondary pupil, West Midlands)

Working with text can be problematic for many pupils. Without some strategies to decode the text and extract relevant information, the potential for learning can be lost.

This course sets out to demonstrate how reading can be used to enhance learning. It also offers you an opportunity to explore and evaluate the strengths of different reading strategies, all of which help pupils to develop independence when looking at different forms of written information.

You will return to school with a wide variety of ideas for increasing the accessibility of text and using it in engaging and productive ways.

On this course you will:

• Explore and identify how reading can be used to promote learning in science
• Develop a repertoire of active reading techniques
• Consider how the process of transforming text supports pupils’ scientific understanding.

Target audience:

Subject leaders, teachers, teaching assistants and trainee teachers working with pupils age 11–16

The course lasts for half a day. However, it can be tailored to meet the needs of your organisation and delivered as two shorter training opportunities.

Available for:

How to book this course:

Contact Jo Williams, Tel 01270 764314, to discuss how this course can be used to support the development of engaging teaching and learning in your organisation.

Charges are calculated on a course by course basis, but are typically between £350 and £600 per half day, plus expenses, depending on the size of the organisation and number of people attending. Special subsidised rates apply to some of our courses and for trainee teachers.

Working from first principles, this course looks at how to engage pupils in wanting to find the answer to stimulating problems. It takes you through planning for successful data capture, and explores how pupils can be supported in understanding that the decisions they make about variables early on can influence the quality of their investigative outcomes.

It also focuses on the development of graphing skills through activities and games. It develops strategies for supporting pupils’ recognition of patterns and trends, and draws this together in a model of how good conclusions are formed, linking this back to the original problem.

Your pupils will soon be applying their data handling skills in all investigations and finding all sorts of information in their graphs!

On this course you will:

• Explore strategies for developing pupils’ understanding of the role of data in science
• Consider ideas for developing effective recording techniques
• Learn how to support pupils in developing graphing skills in an engaging way
• Be able to teach pupils how to write effective conclusions through discussion and collaborative writing.

Target audience:

Subject leaders, teachers, teaching assistants and trainee teachers working with pupils age 11–16

The course lasts for a full day. However, it can be tailored to meet the needs of your organisation and delivered as a series of shorter training opportunities.

Available for:

How to book this course:

Contact Jo Williams, Tel 01270 764314, to discuss how this course can be used to support the development of engaging teaching and learning in your organisation.

Charges are calculated on a course by course basis, but are typically between £450 and £950 per day, plus expenses, depending on the size of the organisation and number of people attending. Special subsidised rates apply to some of our courses and for trainee teachers.

This course sets out to demonstrate how models and model making can be used to support, develop and extend pupils’ scientific thinking and understanding. You will use a variety of increasingly sophisticated models and analogies to consider how the process of describing, testing and evaluating can extend pupils’ understanding of scientific ideas and phenomena.

On this course you will:

• Enhance your knowledge of how models can promote learning
• Explore different types of modelling in science
• Consider how models evolve throughout the learning process
• Use kinaesthetic models and role play in a range of scientific contexts.

Target audience:

Subject leaders, teachers, teaching assistants and trainee teachers working with pupils age 11–16

The course lasts for a full day. However, it can be tailored to meet the needs of your organisation and delivered as a series of shorter training opportunities.

Available for:

How to book this course:

Contact Jo Williams, Tel 01270 764314, to discuss how this course can be used to support the development of engaging teaching and learning in your organisation.

Charges are calculated on a course by course basis, but are typically between £450 and £950 per day, plus expenses, depending on the size of the organisation and number of people attending. Special subsidised rates apply to some of our courses and for trainee teachers.

This course considers how developing the ‘big picture’ in science supports a holistic understanding of the subject, and how thinking frameworks and tools are an important part of developing this broader scientific understanding. It explores how we can help pupils develop this holistic view, where connections and interrelationships are identified and used to promote a firm grasp of the subject. We will look at the vital role of speaking and listening in this process and explore activities designed to promote productive talk.

On this course you will:

• Experience a wide variety of thinking frameworks that can be used to develop understanding
• Think about how developing the ‘big picture’ can assist pupils in making connections between different elements of their learning
• Consider how developing a supportive climate for learning encourages pupils to express their thinking and explore their ideas
• Experience some effective talk activities that can be used to support progression.

Target audience:

Subject leaders, teachers, teaching assistants and trainee teachers working with pupils age 11–16

The course lasts for a full day. However, it can be tailored to meet the needs of your organisation and delivered as a series of shorter training opportunities.

Available for:

How to book this course:

Contact Jo Williams, Tel 01270 764314, to discuss how this course can be used to support the development of engaging teaching and learning in your organisation.

NB Charges are calculated on a course by course basis, but are typically between £450 and £950 per day, plus expenses, depending on the size of the organisation and number of people attending. Special subsidised rates apply to some of our courses and for trainee teachers.