Welcome
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.