This blog aims to provide teachers with a platform that will engage and enhance children’s understanding of science in the world around them. Outside of discussing and showing students how certain things happen, we as teachers need to get children predicting, discussing and questioning more and more. A prelude to every science lesson should be a discussion that will get the children thinking and sharing ideas with each other. How, when and why questions are a great means of engaging their critical thinking skills. The experiments on this site should be used as a tool to reinforce and enhance the science being taught. When conducting an experiment, it is important that the student is given the opportunity to predict what he/she thinks might happen. A clearer understanding should then be attained when the predictions are compared with the actual outcomes. Each science lesson on this site is divided into 4 sections. First of all a series of questions are asked from which a hypothesis is constructed. The hypothesis is then tested using an experiment. After the experiment each student is given the opportunity to discuss their findings. To conclude, I have provided an interactive quiz at the end of each lesson so as to add a fun element to the learning.
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The resource
This resource provides a platform for teachers to conduct some engaging science lessons with their classes. The idea is to facilitate inquiry based science teaching. During each of the science lessons I assumed the role of facilitator, allowing the children to work collaboratively in groups as they questioned each other and discussed their findings from their investigations.
Aims and objectives
1. To enhance the children’s understanding of science in their immediate environment.
2. The children learn how to properly conduct a science experiment and understand the importance of discussion and prediction.
3. To develop the children’s observational and inferrential skills.
4. To foster in the children a curiosity for science.
5. To understand what it might be like to work as a scientist.
The experiments
See how to carry out the invetigations by clicking on the following links.
celery conduction CO2
density candleinwater simple circuit
Technical Details
These experiments were recorded using a digital camera mounted on a tripod. The audio files were recorded using a digital recording device. Quicktime is required to view the videos and listen to the audio clips. It can be downloaded freely from www.quicktime.com
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