Teaching Problem-Solving and Thinking Skills through Science: Exciting Cross-Curricular Challenges for Foundation Phase, Key Stage One and Key Stage Two

This highly practical resource book presents ways in which teachers can help to develop children's problem-solving and thinking skills through a range of exciting science topics. The book contains classroom-based activities which have been trialled and evaluated by teachers and children, and helpfully shows how the skills developed through rigorous scientific investigations can be used across all areas of the curriculum.  The scientific curriculum requirements are extended with exciting and inspiring problem-solving activities that use scientific skills, for example:   fair-testing    pattern-seeking    surveying    classifying and identifying    investigations over time    designing    testing and adapting an artefact    open-ended exploration   The book contains learning objectives for each activity, step by step guidelines for carrying out each problem-solving activity, basic equipment that's needed, examples of learner's work and guidelines for assessment. This book is a must-buy for all early years and primary school teachers keen to encourage an inclusive but differentiated approach to the development of problem-solving and thinking skills in their pupils.

Education & Teaching

Berry, Andrew

WALLACE, Belle

Cave, Diana

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Discover and develop your pupils' strengths across the multiple intelligences by improving their problem solving skills. This book will:  tell teachers all they need to know about multiple intelligences and problem solving  provide a bank of problems that can be integrated into any lesson plan help teachers to identify gifted and able pupils  guide schools on how to organize their curriculum using example curriculum plans.  For teachers working across the Foundation Stage, Key Stages One and Two, Headteachers and those working at management level.

Thinking Skills and Problem-Solving - An Inclusive Approach: A Practical Guide for Teachers in Primary Schools (Nace/Fulton Publication)

Engineering & Transportation

Maker, June

Engineering

David Fulton Publishers

<p>This is a biography of St Cedd, a seventh-century Celtic monk who according to Bede began his ministry on the island of Lindisfarne. He later became the bishop of the East Saxons and founded a monastery at Lastingham. He has largely been overshadowed by his brother Chad, but research into the places he visited reveals more about this well-travelled and dedicated monk. Illustrations and photographs are included to assist the reader locate unfamiliar places, along with dynastic charts, a glossary and bibliography. The text begins with a search for his origins, then investigates nineteenth-century suggestions that he was involved with ministry in Scotland. Further examination is made of the places where Cedd had his mission: Essex, North Yorkshire and Northumbria. This book aims to discover more about Cedd, to challenge some of the assumptions made about his life, to correct dating errors and to stimulate more research into the seventh-century.</p>

Saint Cedd: Seventh-century Celtic saint

History

Africa

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