Using practical examples and case studies the author examines some of the experimental and investigative teaching methods which are intended to support the 'specialist approach' in the teaching of primary science.
Chapter 1 Primary science in perspective;
Chapter 2 The framework for planning science activities;
Chapter 3 Planning what to teach: content choice;
Chapter 4 The organisation of science within the primary curriculum;
Chapter 5 Classroom organisation;
Chapter 6 Science outside the classroom;
Yvonne Garson is Lecturer in Education at the University of Keele. She has taught in primary schools in England and in the USA, and she has taught science at secondary level. She is co-author of Schooling in the Middle Years (Trentham Books, 1982).