Welcome to our brand new science page from the Oban and Lorn science mentor team – Jenny Love, Gemma Robertson and Alison Ralston . This page will be added to regularly with resource and lesson ideas for teaching science in primary school, science news and grant information. Please let us know if there is any resources in particular you would like to see here or if we can help in any way in delivering the science curriculum – email us at Jennifer.Love@argyll-bute.gov.uk , Gemma.Robertson@argyll-bute.gov.uk or Alison.Ralston@argyll-bute.gov.uk
We highly recommend reading this document – Working With The Big Ideas in Science Education, published by the Association for Science Education. In science, we can sometimes jump from topic to topic, which results in children seeing science as a series of endless, disconnected facts, seen as a barrier to truly learning science. This document distills down scientific knowledge into ten guiding principles that we can use to explain a diversity of scientific phenomena, essentially lenses by which we can help children make sense of the world – 1working-with-big-ideas-of-science-education-print-version-2-
We have a fabulous resource box available to borrow for teaching the topic of electricity – click the link below for more details.
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ab/saliarchive/2018/01/16/electricity-resource-box-available/
Space – click the link below for ideas for the teaching of space (with links to health and wellbeing too)
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ab/saliarchive/2018/01/16/space-teaching-ideas/
Food Chains and Food Webs (biodiversity) resources and lesson ideas
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ab/saliarchive/2018/01/16/teaching-food-chains/
Teaching about inheritance – click the link below for resources and ideas
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ab/saliarchive/2018/01/16/inheritance-teaching-ideas/
Physical and Chemical Changes – experiment ideas and printables for teaching this topic
Forces – practical experiments and investigations ideas
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ab/saliarchive/2018/01/16/forces-teaching-ideas/
Terrific Scientific – information about the BBC’s fabulous resource for teaching science in primary school
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ab/saliarchive/2018/01/17/terrific-scientific/
Science field trip ideas – The Ocean Explorer Centre
Great support/guidance for teachers in delivering the science curriculum. I will absolutely be using the ideas/links provided for both enhancing my own understand and improving pupils’ experiences in science. This will save me so much time!
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Looks great! Lots of useful ideas, clearly explained and easily understood.
Looks fantastic!
I would like to highly commend you all for these extremely valuable resources which I am certain all practitioners in Argyll and Bute will benefit from which will result in enjoyment, fun as well as raising attainment in Science/STEM. Thank you
This is excellent. I am delighted to see primary school teachers taking on the challenge of teaching STEM subjects to their children. The resources and information packs here are well thought out and out together. My child has undertaken the owl pellet dissection and learnt so much from it, not just scientific information but also learning about maths whilst doing it.
We have to enthuse primary school children about STEM subjects, by the time they get to secondary school it is often too late which is such a shame.
Also just a note to all, why not make use of STEM Ambassadors – these people will often come in and help with STEM subjects.
Great resource. Will save so much time looking for relevant resources. Thank you.