Primary Science: Teaching The Tricky Bits: Teaching the Tricky Bits - Tapa blanda

It provides a combination of engaging, practical lesson ideas and subject knowledge to help you teach the trickiest parts of primary science such as materials and their properties, magnetism, circuits, forces and life processes.

Using strategies that have been successfully used in primary school classrooms, it explains the most difficult topics in a simple, non-technical style. It includes a range of accessible ideas, hints and tips with a focus on providing a skills-based, problem-solving approach to learning.

Each topic area includes advice on:

• How to link the topic with other areas of learning
• Identifying and challenging common misconceptions
• How to effectively pre-assess the learners' ideas to best meet their needs
• Practical activities for challenging and developing children's ideas
• Explanatory models to help pupils consolidate their understanding