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Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 8-12: Learning Science through Well-Loved Stories book cover

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Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 8-12 Learning Science through Well-Loved Stories

By Jules Pottle Copyright 2018
234 Pages 16 Color & 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 16 Color & 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 16 Color & 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Science Fiction, Science Fact! Ages 8–12 is a book for story-loving primary teachers who want to find a creative way to teach science. Contextualising science in a story that pupils know and love, the book contains a wide range of activities and investigations to help Key Stage 2 pupils engage in science learning, while also extending aspects of the English national curriculum. The book... Read more

Introduction  Chapter 1: How to Teach a Great Science Lesson  Chapter 2: The Black Rabbit (Light)  Chapter 3: The Last Wild (Food chains, microbes, digestion, teeth)  Chapter 4: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (changing materials)  Chapter 5: Kensuke’s Kingdom (the water cycle)  Chapter 6: The Northern Lights (forces)  Chapter 7: Alice in Wonderland (science skills)

Biography

Jules Pottle is a primary science specialist teacher with experience teaching in primary schools for over twenty years, and a trainer for Storytelling Schools, UK. She won the Primary Science Teaching Trust’s Primary Science Teacher of the Year in 2015.

If you want to deliver superlative primary science lessons this is, without doubt, the book for you. Follow its example and you will teach children how to think.

A totally spellbinding fusion of story telling and science.　

George McGavin, Honorary Research Associate, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and Senior Principal Research Fellow, Imperial College, UK
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