1st Edition

Teaching Problem-Solving and Thinking Skills through Science Exciting Cross-Curricular Challenges for Foundation Phase, Key Stage One and Key Stage Two

By Belle Wallace, Andrew Berry, Diana Cave Copyright 2009
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

This highly practical resource book presents ways in which teachers can help to develop children's problem-solving and thinking skills through a range of exciting science topics. The book contains classroom-based activities which have been trialled and evaluated by teachers and children, and helpfully shows how the skills developed through rigorous scientific investigations can be used across all... Read more

Introduction: Why use TASC as a Framework for developing Problem-solving and Thinking Skills?  1. An explanation of TASC: Thinking Actively in a Social Context. How does TASC help to develop the processes of scientific thinking in all learners?  2. Detailed planning guidelines for a cross curricular TASC week based on Space and Rockets  3. The Children's Voices. Research materials, book reviews and recording techniques for the TASC Project on Space and Rockets  4. Examples of planning TASC science projects: Early Years and Key Stage 1  5. Examples of planning TASC science projects: Key Stage 2  6. Further ideas for developing TASC projects

Biography

Belle Wallace is a consultant and in-service educator in the field of gifted and talented children. She has written extensively in this area and is a past president of NACE (National Association for Able Children in Education).

Diana Cave is the Gifted and Talented Co-ordinator for a junior school in Grantham, and specialises in the teaching of science.

Andrew Berry is a Teacher Advisor in Primary Science for Kent Advisory Service.