Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - Subjects - Science & Technology

People have been playing music on homemade instruments for thousands of years. But creating newinstruments is much more than an art form. When you want to make a note sound higher or lower, you have to change the sound waves coming out of the instrument. That's science When you explore the way different materials produce different sounds, that's engineering. When you speed up or slow down a song, you're counting beats -- using math. And technology makes electronic instruments and devices to record and play back music possible.

This practical, comprehensive and accessible book will prove invaluable for students on secondary initial teacher training courses, PGCE students, lecturers on science education programmes and newly qualified secondary teachers.
It provides:

• the pedagogical knowledge needed to teach science in secondary schools
• support activities for work in schools and self-study
• information on professional development for secondary teachers.

This book provides an accessible and indispensable framework of subject knowledge for trainee and practising primary science teachers, with essential guidance on how to make direct links to the new National Curriculum. Divided into three parts, Biology, Chemistry and Physics, and with an extra chapter on Scientific Enquiry, it offers comprehensive subject knowledge to develop confidence, as well as a multitude of tips and strategies to demonstrate the beauty of learning science. With brand new progression grids and links to global learning, common misconceptions, and cross-curricular...

This book provides an accessible and indispensable framework of subject knowledge for trainee and practising primary science teachers, with essential guidance on how to make direct links to the new National Curriculum. Divided into three parts, Biology, Chemistry and Physics, and with an extra chapter on Scientific Enquiry, it offers comprehensive subject knowledge to develop confidence, as well as a multitude of tips and strategies to demonstrate the beauty of learning science. With brand new progression grids and links to global learning, common misconceptions, and cross-curricular...

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:

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What should individuals and society do when genetic screening becomes widely available and with its impact on current and future generations still uncertain? How can our education systems around the world respond to these developments?

Reproductive and genetic technologies (RGTs) are increasingly controversial and political. We are entering an era where we can design future humans, firstly, by genetic screening of "undesirable" traits or indeed embryos, but perhaps later by more radical genetic engineering. This has a profound effect on what we see as normal,...

Although emerging technologies are becoming popularised for teaching, learning and research, the relationship between their use and transformative effects on higher education remain largely unexplored. This edited collection seeks to fill this gap by providing a nuanced view, locating higher education pedagogical practices at an intersection of emerging technologies, authentic learning and activity systems.

Providing numerous case studies as examples, the book draws from a wide range of contexts to illustrate how such a convergence has the potential to track transformative teaching...