Teaching Problem-Solving and Thinking Skills through Science: Exciting Cross-Curricular Challenges for...

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Belle Wallace (Education Consultant, UK. Independent consultant in gifted education, UK) Andrew Berry (Kent Advisory Service, UK)

Teaching Problem-Solving and Thinking Skills through Science

Exciting Cross-Curricular Challenges for Foundation Phase, Key Stage One and Key Stage Two

Belle Wallace (Education Consultant, UK. Independent consultant in gifted education, UK), Andrew Berry (Kent Advisory Service, UK), Diana Cave

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Routledge
23 October 2008

Education; Pre-school & kindergarten; Primary & middle schools; Teacher training; Teaching skills & techniques; Teaching of a specific subject; Educational: Sciences, general science

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:

fair-testing

pattern-seeking

surveying

classifying and identifying

investigations over time

designing

testing and adapting an artefact

open-ended exploration

The book contains learning objectives for each activity, step by step guidelines for carrying out each problem-solving activity, basic equipment that's needed, examples of learner's work and guidelines for assessment. This book is a must-buy for all early years and primary school teachers keen to encourage an inclusive but differentiated approach to the development of problem-solving and thinking skills in their pupils.

By: Belle Wallace (Education Consultant UK. Independent consultant in gifted education UK), Andrew Berry (Kent Advisory Service, UK), Diana Cave
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 297mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780415450355
ISBN 10: 0415450357
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 23 October 2008
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Why use TASC as a Framework for developing Problem-solving and Thinking Skills? 1. An explanation of TASC: Thinking Actively in a Social Context. How does TASC help to develop the processes of scientific thinking in all learners? 2. Detailed planning guidelines for a cross curricular TASC week based on Space and Rockets 3. The Children's Voices. Research materials, book reviews and recording techniques for the TASC Project on Space and Rockets 4. Examples of planning TASC science projects: Early Years and Key Stage 1 5. Examples of planning TASC science projects: Key Stage 2 6. Further ideas for developing TASC projects

Education Consultant, UK

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.,. [T]his book is also a rare, detailed, nontheoretical survey that exposes the veins of invention that run through Western culture, creating an astonishing picture of achievement through its careful accumulation of small details. Mr. Friedel surveys the kinds of inventions and technologies that developed in the West over centuries, compiling a roster of innovation that encompasses everything from textiles to time telling. Under his firm touch it begins to be possible to feel something like the primal pulse of this culture. -- Edward Rothstein, The New York Times