Primary science: supporting children’s learning

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Primary science: supporting children’s learning provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 8 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • Science is a key subject area in primary education curriculum frameworks. This free course, Primary science: supporting children's learning, provides an opportunity to consider your own ...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Science subject knowledge
    • 1 Science subject knowledge
    • 1.1 Attitudes to science
    • 1.2 The nature of scientific knowledge
    • 1.3 Seeing the bigger picture
    • 2 Subject knowledge and teaching and learning
    • 2 Subject knowledge and teaching and learning
    • 2.1 Getting a sense of scale
    • 2.2 Scientific vocabulary
    • 2.3 Classification: order or confusion?
    • 2.4 Conceptual development
    • 2.5 Constructivism and science
    • 3 Discovering children’s ideas
    • 3 Discovering children’s ideas
    • 3.1 Children expressing their ideas
    • 3.2 Concept mapping
    • 3.3 Constructing a concept map
    • 3.4 Uses of concept mapping
    • 4 Using models in science
    • 4 Using models in science
    • 4.1 Modelling electricity
    • 4.2 Sweets and cups model 
    • 4.3 Rope model 
    • Conclusion
    • References
    • Further reading
    • Acknowledgements