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| About the book |
This essential book offers friendly support and practical advice for dealing with the common misconceptions encountered in the primary science classroom. Most pupils will arrive at the science lesson with previously formed ideas, based on prior reasoning or experience. However these ideas are often founded on common misconceptions, which if left unexplained can continue into adulthood. This handy book offers advice for teachers on how to recognise and correct such misconceptions. Key features include:
This easy to navigate guide is grouped into three parts; life processes and living things; materials and their properties; and physical processes. |
| About the authors |
Michael Allen is Lecturer in Science Education at Brunel University, UK and has a PhD in science education. |
| Table of contents |
Acknowledgements Preface How to use this book Part one Introduction A) How do people learn science? B) How can we elicit, recognise and correct science misconceptions? Part two Life Processes and Living Things 1 Concept of living 2 Classification 3 Circulation 4 Breathing 5 Nutrition 6 Feeding relationships 7 Microbes and disease 8 Heredity and variation Part three Materials and their properties 9 Chemical changes in materials 10 Particles 11 States of matter 12 Earth science Part four Physical processes 13 Forces 14 Floating and sinking 15 Electricity and magnetism 16 Light 17 Sound 18 Earth and space 19 Heat Science glossary The relevance of the QCA primary science scheme of work topics to the misconception entries Bibliography |
