Science Free Stuff. Free Teacher Resources. Sciberdiver - Diversity (Sec 1-2 E & NA) Elements, Compounds and Mixtures - Product videos « Sunflower Learning - Award winning science software for schools. Learning to Teach in the Secondary School, 5th Edition. Geoff Petty - Teaching Today - Home page. Olympics Cross Curricular Ideas. Brilliant ideas for science: tried and tested tips for lessons. Creativity and imagination is the key. 18 ways to get experimenting with science classes, including mission impossible, the yuck factor and pop culture. All have been tried and tested by teachers and are guaranteed to work. Ages 7 to 11 Your mission possible To help pupils enjoy science investigations, tell them that they will be working for a secret agency on a mission. To kick-start a lesson on thermal insulators, hide envelopes under the chairs of a few pupils and explain what they will be doing. One envelope explains that canisters containing liquid have become detached from their holding cells.
Once pupils come up with a plan, open a briefcase complete with canisters and allow them to carry out experiments. Ice ‘n’ easy experiment Enliven teaching about the insulating properties of materials by filling a pair of washing-up gloves with water, knotting the ends and freezing. You want to put the hands in the same place and have one wrapped in something and one unwrapped. Hey presto!
Assessment Reform Group. On June 16, 2010 | updated October 2, 2012 The Assessment Reform Group (ARG) has been at the forefront of challenging thinking and practice in relation to all aspects of assessment, including assessment for learning. Its aim has been to ensure that assessment policy and practice at all levels takes account of relevant research evidence. In pursuit of this aim the main targets for the Group’s activity have been policy-makers in government and its agencies.
It has also worked closely with teachers, teacher organisations and local authority staff to advance understanding of the roles, purposes and impacts of assessment. While its work has now finished, its publications continue to provide ideas and insights central to the development of assessment practice. The following publications from the Assessment Reform Group can be downloaded: Assessment for Learning – 10 principles Assessment for Learning – 10 principles (Welsh) Assessment for Learning-Beyond the Black Box See also:
Guardian Teacher Network | guardian.co.uk. Assessment FOR Learning - Sharing assessment strategies that help students learn. Teacher Training, Safeguarding, Behaviour & Classroom Management. Differentiation. PrometheanPlanet. I'm always on the lookout for good resources to help the teaching of science on the Interactive Whiteboard. Your whiteboard allows you to run simulations, play videos and demonstrate using animations. It can also provide you with a window on the world (and other worlds). Here are 10 of my favourites: 1. Absorb Learning from Yenka : From the makers of Crocodile Clips, this website containts hundreds of free IWB animations for KS4/KS5 Chemistry and Physics. 2. 3. 4.Periodic Table of Videos : On this site, produced by the University of Nottingham, you will find videos of all the different elements of the periodic table. 5. 6. 7. 8.
With an IWB you have a fantastic full colour screen. Two of my favourite image sites are: 9. 10. It is always very hard to narrow down my favourites to just 10. Happy surfing! Danny Nicholson www.whiteboardblog.co.uk Links used in this page. Introducing pace and purpose into your lessons. Adopting an appropriate pace has always been an important component of a successful lesson, particularly with groups of high-achieving pupils who are more than able to cope with at least an hour of rigorous challenge.
These pupils thrive on the demands of a lesson that asks them to move quickly through exposition and review to get to new learning points and to spend time developing and extending new ideas and concepts. However, it is extremely tempting to think of a lesson with ‘unrelenting pace’, where pupils are constantly engaged and productive all the time, as being a successful learning experience. I have observed numerous ‘all singing, all dancing’ lessons where pupils have barely had time to breathe before the next activity was presented to them. They work on the notion that if pupils are simply too busy to misbehave then the lesson is likely to go more smoothly.
The planning stage Ask yourself who is it that you want to work harder – the pupils or you? The core phase of the lesson. Writing Objectives Using Bloom's Taxonomy | Center for Teaching & Learning | UNC Charlotte. Various researchers have summarized how to use Bloom’s Taxonomy. Following are four interpretations that you can use as guides in helping to write objectives using Bloom’s Taxonomy. From: KC Metro [old link, no longer functioning?]
Bloom’s Taxonomy divides the way people learn into three domains. One of these is the cognitive domain, which emphasizes intellectual outcomes. This domain is further divided into categories or levels. From: UMUC From: Stewards Task Oriented Question Construction Wheel Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy Task Oriented Question Construction Wheel Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. ©2001 St. From: GA Tech According to Benjamin Bloom, and his colleagues, there are six levels of cognition: Ideally, each of these levels should be covered in each course and, thus, at least one objective should be written for each level.
Below are examples of objectives written for each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy and activities and assessment tools based on those objectives.