Teaching Secondary Science: Constructing Meaning and Developing Understanding, Edition 4
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Key features include:
- Illustrative and engaging lesson plans for use in the classroom
- Help for pupils to construct new scientific meanings
- M-level support materials
- Advice on teaching ‘difficult ideas’ in biology, chemistry, physics and earth sciences
- Education for sustainable development and understanding climate change
- Managing the science classroom and health and safety in the laboratory
- Support for talk for learning, and advice on numeracy in science
- New chapters on e-learning and supporting learners with English as a second language
Presenting an environmentally sustainable, global approach to science teaching, this book emphasises the need to build on or challenge children’s existing ideas so they better understand the world in which they live. Essential reading for all students and practising science teachers, this invaluable book will support those undertaking secondary science PGCE, school-based routes into teaching and those studying at Masters level.
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Keith Ross is a former secondary science teacher and Education Teaching Fellow at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. He is currently co-creating four-minute animated science videos with the Fuse School that are free to teachers and students worldwide. www.youtube.com/fuseschool.
Liz Lakin
is a former secondary science teacher and tutor at the universities of Gloucestershire and Cumbria, UK. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Education and Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, UK.Janet McKechnie
is a physics teacher and STEM coordinator at Pate’s Grammar School, Cheltenham, UK. She is also former Physics AST and Science Leader for the Secondary Science PGCE at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.Jim Baker
is a freelance educational consultant, webmaster, blogger and maverick. With 44 years’ experience he has taught science at secondary schools in Lincoln and still teaches part-time. www.jimbakersonlinelearning.co.uk.
