Education Guru passionately believe that science is one of the best ways to engage children in learning. Our approach is to relate science to everyday life and have developed strategies, ideas and tools to encourage kids to ‘Work Scientifically’. We also believes that science should be enjoyable. We use interactive games, imaginative role plays and creative projects to inject a big dose of fun into our resources to give teachers the skills and tools to do the same in their classrooms.
Education Guru passionately believe that science is one of the best ways to engage children in learning. Our approach is to relate science to everyday life and have developed strategies, ideas and tools to encourage kids to ‘Work Scientifically’. We also believes that science should be enjoyable. We use interactive games, imaginative role plays and creative projects to inject a big dose of fun into our resources to give teachers the skills and tools to do the same in their classrooms.
This resource has been designed to help bring creativity and the everyday science into your lessons by using stories and poems to enthuse your children. It is divided into year groups and can be purchased per year group, by key stages or as a whole school pack. Each year group has five detailed lesson plans with a story or poem for each of the topics. In years one and two where there are only four topics, an extra lesson has been added for one of the topics. Some of the lessons have more than one activity linked to the story and this can be used for an extended lesson or future lessons depending on how much time there is for the science lesson. This pack is for Year 1 . However it can be used in any country to support the use of poems and stories in science lessons.
For those of you that are used to using stories and poems then this resource will hopefully expand your collection and for those that are new to teaching in this way then the resource will hopefully be the springboard to explore further poems and stories yourselves in the future. There may also be some new ideas for teaching science such as role plays and models that can be used in other science topics.
A bonus of using the written word is the cross curricular links to other subjects such as Geography, History, DT and of course Literacy which are mentioned in the lesson plans when appropriate
Children often know more about science that we think; sometimes they just donʼt
have the skills to write down their ideas. I wrote this book because I have a strong
belief that all children, whatever their literacy levels, should be given the opportunity
to share what they know about science.
Over the years, Iʼve developed a range of alternative recording methods that allow
children to express their knowledge and learning. These have been tried and tested
in the classroom. This book outlines these methods, gently guiding the reader
through each one. I cover what each recording method looks like, the reason behind
using it, some ideas on how to incorporate it into a lesson and how to use it to
assess children. My hope is that this book will show teachers that there are ways to
record and assess science that are fun and creative and that generate enthusiasm in
the classroom. Most importantly - they donʼt involve an exercise book.
By using these methods youʼll find that children, particularly those who lack the ability
to get things down on paper, will demonstrate an amazing science understanding.
They just needed to be given the chance to express it their way! This book was written for primary Teachers but the ideas can be used in secondary schools as well.
