Teaching ideas about science
Suggestions for student activities
>>Download a booklet with suggestions for student activities in GCSE Science (Word and pdf version supplied)
Ideas about science: Stepping stones (509 KB)
Ideas about science: Stepping stones (492 KB)
Each Ideas about Science (How Science Works) activity is presented as explanatory notes for teachers, which may be accompanied by student sheets if required. Teachers can use these activities as starting points for their own lesson ideas.
The activities are designed to:
• stimulate students' thinking about particular Ideas about Science;
• generate discussion about the importance of understanding Ideas about Science;
• build students’ confidence in their grasp of Ideas about Science, so they may apply this understanding to new areas of science as they meet them.
The materials in this booklet were produced by groups of teachers participating in a 90-minute workshop. New activity ideas would be very much welcomed by the Twenty First Century Science team on behalf of teachers.
Please email your suggestions for activities to uyseg-c21@york.ac.uk. UYSEG are working on this on behalf of the project team based at the Nuffield Curriculum Centre and the University of York.
We will update this publication periodically.
