Teaching ideas about science
Suggestions for student activities
>>Download booklets with suggestions for student activities in GCSE Science.
Ideas about science: Stepping stones 2007 (509 KB)
Ideas about science: Stepping stones 2007 (492 KB)
NEW! more resources to help with the teaching of ideas about science. Revised booklet with bad web-link removed and extra activity about Risk published 9 Dec 08
Teaching ideas about science: Stepping stones 2008 (145 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 90-minute workshops. 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.
