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

Centered around an empirical analysis of how students and their teachers use aesthetic language and acts during laboratory and field work, the book demonstrates that aesthetics is something that is...

This innovative volume brings together perspectives from two fields of enquiry and practice: literacies and learning and learning technologies . With their own histories and trajectories, in practice, theory and research, they have generally remained discrete. In tackling this divide head on, the volume breaks new ground in illustrating how complementary and contrasting approaches can be brought together in productive ways, and considers the implications of this for practitioners working across a wide range of contexts. In so doing, the book showcases work from well-respected authorities...

Specifically structured around the QCA schemes of work, this book focuses upon developing the science subject knowledge of the reader up to the standards needed for QTS. It provides:

• clear explanations of the major science "concepts" a primary teacher needs to teach the National Curriculum effectively
• illustrations of how this knowledge can be applied in everyday teaching and planning
• direct links within each chapter to the QCA schemes of work
• review questions and discussion points to aid understanding and comprehension.

Draw the Periodic Table of the Elements from Memory is written as a study aid for learning about the periodic table of the elements. The book begins with an introduction to the structure of the atom and electron orbitals. The periodic nature of the table is then discussed and groups of atoms with similar characteristics are identified. The book then focuses on drawing the periodic table with its 118 element names and symbols from memory. Several memory techniques are used that use full color pictures with easily remembered phrases that help recall the information in the correct position in...