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Making Sense of Secondary Science: Research into Children's Ideas by: Drivers, Squires List Price: £20.99 City Travel Guides Price: £17.84 You Save: £3.15 (15%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 370.1565 EAN: 9780415097659 ISBN: 0415097657 Label: Routledge Manufacturer: Routledge Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: March 10, 1994 Publisher: Routledge Studio: Routledge Sales Rank: 7947 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Absolutely essential in lesson planningI bought this book as a student teacher on the recommendation of my tutors. It is now an integral part of my lesson planning as it enables me to anticipate pupil misconceptions. The book examines childerens ideas about the natural world topic by topic, highlighting some commonly held beliefs (such as plants feeding from soil, air being a pure substance and all metals being attracted to a magnet). In using this book I have become more aware of the misconceptions that pupils (and adults!) hold in their understanding of science and can attempt to challenge these ideas before teaching the scientifically accurate idea. Rating: - How can you teach science without reading this?Any teacher who has ever stood in the front of a class teaching science will, at some time, have encountered some amazing misconceptions held by their pupils. These ideas have come from the children's own life experience. The late Rosalind Driver and her team at the Children's Learning in Science Research Group at Leeds University have put together a book that looks in detail at many of the common misconceptions held by children in the field of science. It looks in detail at how children's understanding changes over time. This understanding, which is closely related to cognitive development, must affect the teaching of science. To teach science without understanding the nature of these misconceptions would be criminal. Read More: |
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