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Abstract
This is essential reading for all primary science trainee and beginning teachers who want to strengthen their science subject knowledge. Each chapter tackles a major theme of the new national curriculum and breaks it down into key concepts. For each concept there is a detailed audit to help readers identify their current levels of knowledge and understanding along with areas for development. This is followed by concise definitions, key terminology, detailed examples and ‘in practice’ ideas to clearly relate theory to classroom practice. Finally, readers are invited to re-check their understanding and assess their level of competence at the end of each section. The text enables teachers to feel secure in their subject knowledge and confident about effectively conveying that information to their pupils through appropriate subject-specific pedagogy.
Good overviews, subject knowledge audits, user friendly, good diagrams, definitions and examples.
Edina Kulenovic, University of Cumbria
Very clear and well-laid out.
Duncan Hindmarch, University of Staffordshire
Vivian Cooke is a senior lecturer in primary science education at the University of Worcester. She began her teaching career as a primary school teacher with responsibility for science, design and technology and ICT. She has worked in two other higher education institutions as a senior lecturer in science on postgraduate, undergraduate and Masters’ courses as well as being course leader for early years, primary and the two-year PGCE.Â
Colin Howard is a senior primary lecturer in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) at the University of Worcester. He has been involved in primary education for over 24 years of which 14 years has been as a successful head teacher in both small village and large primary school settings. He has been involved in inspecting schools for the Diocese of Hereford as a S48 SIAS Inspector. He has recently been awarded a Phd linked to his interest in the influence that school buildings have upon their stakeholders.
I really like the way the book is organised with key vocabulary, explanations, examples of practice and quiz questions.
Zoe Crompton, Manchester Metropolitan University
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | i | ||
| Half-title | iii | ||
| Title page | v | ||
| Copyright information | vi | ||
| Table of contents | vii | ||
| Acknowledgements | x | ||
| Meet the authors | xi | ||
| 1 Introduction: the importance of good subject knowledge | 1 | ||
| Who this book is for | 1 | ||
| Why this book is needed and chapter features | 1 | ||
| Chapter outlines | 2 | ||
| Summary | 4 | ||
| References | 4 | ||
| 2 Animals and humans | 5 | ||
| What do you need to know to be able to teach this topic? | 5 | ||
| Key concept: what are life processes? | 8 | ||
| Definitions | 8 | ||
| Examples | 8 | ||
| In practice | 9 | ||
| Year 2 | 9 | ||
| Check your understanding | 9 | ||
| Key concept: what are teeth? | 9 | ||
| Definitions | 10 | ||
| Examples | 10 | ||
| In practice | 10 | ||
| Year 4 | 10 | ||
| Check your understanding | 11 | ||
| Key concept: what is the heart? | 11 | ||
| Definitions | 11 | ||
| Examples | 11 | ||
| In practice | 12 | ||
| Year 6 | 12 | ||
| Check your understanding | 12 | ||
| Key concept: what is the skeleton? | 13 | ||
| Definitions | 13 | ||
| Examples | 13 | ||
| In practice | 13 | ||
| Year 3 | 13 | ||
| Check your understanding | 14 | ||
| Key concept: what are muscles? | 14 | ||
| Definitions | 14 | ||
| Examples | 14 | ||
| In practice | 15 | ||
| Year 3 | 15 | ||
| Check your understanding | 15 | ||
| Key concept: how does the digestive system work? | 15 | ||
| Definitions | 15 | ||
| Examples | 15 | ||
| In practice | 17 | ||
| Year 4 | 17 | ||
| Check your understanding | 17 | ||
| 3 Plants, habitats and living things | 18 | ||
| What do you need to know to be able to teach this topic? | 18 | ||
| Key concept: how are living things classified? | 21 | ||
| Definitions | 21 | ||
| Examples | 22 | ||
| In practice | 23 | ||
| Year 6 | 23 | ||
| Check your understanding | 23 | ||
| Key concept: what are food chains? | 23 | ||
| Definitions | 23 | ||
| Examples | 24 | ||
| In practice | 24 | ||
| Year 2 | 24 | ||
| Check your understanding | 24 | ||
| Key concept: what do plants need to grow? | 25 | ||
| Definitions | 25 | ||
| Examples | 25 | ||
| In practice | 26 | ||
| Year 2 | 26 | ||
| Check your understanding | 26 | ||
| Key concept: what are the different parts of a flower and their functions? | 27 | ||
| Definitions | 27 | ||
| Example | 28 | ||
| In practice | 28 | ||
| Year 3 | 28 | ||
| Check your understanding | 28 | ||
| Key concept: the life cycle of flowering plants | 28 | ||
| Definitions | 29 | ||
| Examples | 29 | ||
| In practice | 30 | ||
| Year 5 | 30 | ||
| Check your understanding | 30 | ||
| 4 Evolution and inheritance | 31 | ||
| What do you need to know to be able to teach this topic? | 31 | ||
| Key concept: evolution and the fossil record | 33 | ||
| Definitions | 33 | ||
| Examples | 33 | ||
| In practice | 33 | ||
| Year 6 | 33 | ||
| Check your understanding | 34 | ||
| Key concept: natural selection in our world | 34 | ||
| Definitions | 35 | ||
| Examples | 35 | ||
| In practice | 35 | ||
| Year 6 | 35 | ||
| Check your understanding | 36 | ||
| Key concept: natural variation in living things | 36 | ||
| Definitions | 36 | ||
| Examples | 36 | ||
| In practice | 36 | ||
| Year 6 | 36 | ||
| Check your understanding | 37 | ||
| Key concept: artificial variation in living things | 37 | ||
| Definitions | 37 | ||
| Examples | 38 | ||
| In practice | 38 | ||
| Year 6 | 38 | ||
| Check your understanding | 38 | ||
| Key concept: the survival of the fittest | 38 | ||
| Definitions | 38 | ||
| Examples | 39 | ||
| In practice | 39 | ||
| Year 6 | 39 | ||
| Check your understanding | 39 | ||
| 5 Everyday materials and their properties | 40 | ||
| What do you need to know to be able to teach this topic? | 40 | ||
| Key concept: what is the particulate nature of matter? | 42 | ||
| Definitions | 42 | ||
| Examples | 43 | ||
| In practice | 43 | ||
| Check your understanding | 43 | ||
| Key concept: what are the physical and chemical properties of materials? | 43 | ||
| Definitions | 43 | ||
| Examples | 44 | ||
| In practice | 44 | ||
| Year 1 | 44 | ||
| Year 4 | 44 | ||
| Check your understanding | 44 | ||
| Key concept: how can the shape of materials be changed? | 45 | ||
| Definitions | 45 | ||
| Examples | 45 | ||
| In practice | 45 | ||
| Year 2 | 45 | ||
| Check your understanding | 46 | ||
| Key concept: what are solids, liquids and gases? | 46 | ||
| Definitions | 46 | ||
| Examples | 47 | ||
| In practice | 47 | ||
| Year 4 | 47 | ||
| Check your understanding | 47 | ||
| Key concept: what is meant by changes of state? | 47 | ||
| Definitions | 48 | ||
| Examples | 48 | ||
| In practice | 50 | ||
| Year 4 | 50 | ||
| Check your understanding | 50 | ||
| Key concept: what does dissolving mean? | 50 | ||
| Definitions | 50 | ||
| Examples | 51 | ||
| In practice | 51 | ||
| Year 5 | 51 | ||
| Check your understanding | 52 | ||
| Key concept: what is chemical change? | 52 | ||
| Definitions | 52 | ||
| Examples | 52 | ||
| In practice | 53 | ||
| Year 6 | 53 | ||
| Check your understanding | 53 | ||
| 6 Earth and space | 54 | ||
| What do you need to know to be able to teach this topic? | 54 | ||
| Key concept: why do we have day and night? | 56 | ||
| Definitions | 56 | ||
| Examples | 56 | ||
| In practice | 56 | ||
| Year 5 | 56 | ||
| Check your understanding | 57 | ||
| Key concept: what is a moon? | 57 | ||
| Definitions | 57 | ||
| Examples | 57 | ||
| In practice | 58 | ||
| Year 5 | 58 | ||
| Check your understanding | 58 | ||
| Key concept: why do the seasons occur? | 58 | ||
| Definitions | 59 | ||
| Examples | 60 | ||
| In practice | 60 | ||
| Year 1 | 60 | ||
| Check your understanding | 60 | ||
| Key concept: what is the solar system? | 61 | ||
| Definitions | 61 | ||
| Examples | 61 | ||
| In practice | 62 | ||
| Year 5 | 62 | ||
| Check your understanding | 62 | ||
| Key concept: what are the Sun and stars? | 62 | ||
| Definitions | 63 | ||
| Examples | 64 | ||
| In practice | 64 | ||
| Year 5 | 64 | ||
| Check your understanding | 65 | ||
| 7 Rocks | 66 | ||
| What do you need to know to be able to teach this topic? | 66 | ||
| Key concept: how does erosion affect the Earth? | 68 | ||
| Definitions | 68 | ||
| Examples | 68 | ||
| In practice | 69 | ||
| Year 3 | 69 | ||
| Check your understanding | 69 | ||
| Key concept: what are fossils? | 69 | ||
| Definitions | 70 | ||
| Examples | 70 | ||
| In practice | 70 | ||
| Year 3 | 70 | ||
| Check your understanding | 71 | ||
| Key concept: what are igneous rocks? | 71 | ||
| Definitions | 71 | ||
| Examples | 71 | ||
| In practice | 72 | ||
| Year 3 | 72 | ||
| Check your understanding | 72 | ||
| Key concept: what are metamorphic rocks? | 72 | ||
| Definitions | 72 | ||
| Examples | 73 | ||
| In practice | 73 | ||
| Year 3 | 73 | ||
| Check your understanding | 73 | ||
| Key concept: what are sedimentary rocks? | 74 | ||
| Definitions | 74 | ||
| Examples | 74 | ||
| In practice | 74 | ||
| Year 3 | 74 | ||
| Check your understanding | 75 | ||
| Key concept: soil types | 75 | ||
| Definitions | 75 | ||
| Examples | 76 | ||
| In practice | 76 | ||
| Year 3 | 76 | ||
| Check your understanding | 77 | ||
| Key concept: weathering and its impact | 77 | ||
| Definitions | 77 | ||
| Examples | 77 | ||
| In practice | 78 | ||
| Year 3 | 78 | ||
| Check your understanding | 78 | ||
| 8 Light | 79 | ||
| What do you need to know to be able to teach this topic? | 79 | ||
| Key concept: how eyes function | 81 | ||
| Definitions | 81 | ||
| Examples | 82 | ||
| In practice | 82 | ||
| Year 6 | 82 | ||
| Check your understanding | 83 | ||
| Key concept: how light travels | 83 | ||
| Definitions | 83 | ||
| Examples | 83 | ||
| In practice | 84 | ||
| Year 6 | 84 | ||
| Check your understanding | 84 | ||
| Key concept: origins of rainbows | 85 | ||
| Definitions | 85 | ||
| Examples | 85 | ||
| In practice | 85 | ||
| Year 6 | 85 | ||
| Check your understanding | 85 | ||
| Key concept: shadows | 86 | ||
| Definitions | 86 | ||
| Examples | 86 | ||
| In practice | 86 | ||
| Year 3 | 86 | ||
| Check your understanding | 87 | ||
| Key concept: sources of light | 87 | ||
| Definitions | 87 | ||
| Examples | 87 | ||
| In practice | 87 | ||
| Year 3 | 87 | ||
| Check your understanding | 88 | ||
| 9 Forces, motion and magnets | 89 | ||
| What do you need to know to be able to teach this topic? | 89 | ||
| Key concept: what is a force? | 91 | ||
| Definitions | 92 | ||
| Examples | 92 | ||
| In practice | 92 | ||
| Year 2 | 92 | ||
| Check your understanding | 93 | ||
| Key concept: how gravity works | 93 | ||
| Definitions | 93 | ||
| Examples | 93 | ||
| In practice | 93 | ||
| Year 5 | 93 | ||
| Check your understanding | 95 | ||
| Key concept: what is friction? | 95 | ||
| Definitions | 95 | ||
| Examples | 95 | ||
| In practice | 95 | ||
| Year 5 | 95 | ||
| Check your understanding | 96 | ||
| Key concept: how does air resistance work? | 96 | ||
| Definitions | 96 | ||
| Examples | 96 | ||
| In practice | 97 | ||
| Year 5 | 97 | ||
| Check your understanding | 97 | ||
| Key concept: how does water resistance work? | 97 | ||
| Definitions | 97 | ||
| Examples | 98 | ||
| In practice | 98 | ||
| Year 5 | 98 | ||
| Check your understanding | 98 | ||
| Key concept: application of forces | 98 | ||
| Definitions | 99 | ||
| Examples | 99 | ||
| In practice | 99 | ||
| Year 5 | 99 | ||
| Check your understanding | 99 | ||
| Key concept: what are magnets? | 100 | ||
| Definitions | 100 | ||
| Examples | 100 | ||
| In practice | 101 | ||
| Year 3 | 101 | ||
| Check your understanding | 101 | ||
| 10 Sound | 102 | ||
| What do you need to know to be able to teach this topic? | 102 | ||
| Key concept: understanding ears | 104 | ||
| Definitions | 104 | ||
| Examples | 104 | ||
| Examples | 105 | ||
| In practice | 105 | ||
| Year 4 | 105 | ||
| Check your understanding | 105 | ||
| Key concept: what is sound? | 105 | ||
| Definitions | 106 | ||
| Examples | 106 | ||
| In practice | 107 | ||
| Year 4: sound waves | 107 | ||
| Check your understanding | 107 | ||
| Key concept: what is loudness? | 107 | ||
| Definitions | 107 | ||
| Examples | 108 | ||
| In practice | 108 | ||
| Year 4 | 108 | ||
| Check your understanding | 108 | ||
| Key concept: pitch and its origins | 108 | ||
| Definitions | 108 | ||
| Examples | 109 | ||
| In practice | 109 | ||
| Year 4 | 109 | ||
| Check your understanding | 109 | ||
| Key concept: echoes | 109 | ||
| Definitions | 110 | ||
| Examples | 110 | ||
| In practice | 110 | ||
| Check your understanding | 110 | ||
| 11 Electricity | 111 | ||
| What do you need to know to be able to teach this topic? | 111 | ||
| Key concept: what is electricity? | 113 | ||
| Definitions | 113 | ||
| Examples | 114 | ||
| In practice | 114 | ||
| Year 4 | 114 | ||
| Check your understanding | 115 | ||
| Key concept: what are series circuits? | 115 | ||
| Definitions | 115 | ||
| Examples | 117 | ||
| In practice | 117 | ||
| Year 4 | 117 | ||
| Check your understanding | 117 | ||
| Key concept: what is voltage? | 118 | ||
| Definitions | 118 | ||
| Examples | 119 | ||
| In practice | 119 | ||
| Year 6 | 119 | ||
| Check your understanding | 120 | ||
| Key concept: what do conductors, insulators and switches do? | 120 | ||
| Definitions | 120 | ||
| Examples | 120 | ||
| In practice | 121 | ||
| Year 4 | 121 | ||
| Check your understanding | 122 | ||
| Key concept: what is resistance? | 122 | ||
| Definitions | 122 | ||
| Examples | 122 | ||
| In practice | 122 | ||
| Year 6 | 122 | ||
| Check your understanding | 123 | ||
| Key concept: what is static electricity? | 123 | ||
| Definitions | 123 | ||
| Examples | 123 | ||
| In practice | 123 | ||
| Check your understanding | 124 | ||
| Taking it further | 125 | ||
| Books and reports | 125 | ||
| Websites | 125 | ||
| Chapter 2: Animals and humans | 125 | ||
| Chapter 3: Plants, habitats and living things | 126 | ||
| Chapter 4: Evolution and inheritance | 126 | ||
| Chapter 5: Everyday materials and their properties | 126 | ||
| Chapter 6: Earth and space | 126 | ||
| Chapter 7: Rocks | 127 | ||
| Chapter 8: Light | 127 | ||
| Chapter 9: Forces, motion and magnets | 127 | ||
| Chapter 10: Sound | 127 | ||
| Chapter 11: Electricity | 127 | ||
| Index | 128 |