Practical work in primary science
This booklet, from Science Community Representing Education (SCORE), offers a range of practical activities and experiments for use in the classroom. Most are aimed at Key Stages One and Two students but a small number are provided for Key Stage Three to highlight the importance of the transition from primary to secondary levels.
These activities may be particularly useful for middle schools. Often activities can be adapted for use with more than one age group and, although they are categorised by purpose, many can fall into more than one category. These include teamwork investigations, extended enquiry, challenging existing ideas, out of the classroom, use of ICT, the ‘messiness’ of real data, stimulating demonstrations, and developing skills.
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