Primary Science for Teaching Assistants

Packed with practical activities, ideas and strategies to help you to enhance your pupils? scientific understanding, this easy-to-use and accessible book has been specifically written for teaching assistants. Primary Science for Teaching Assistants : analyzes how you can develop scientific skills and understanding offers advice and guidance on pupil?s progression in science shows how to use and build on children?s ideas by questioning provides suggestions for practical work and cross-curricular links. Use this book whether you?re studying for qualifications or just keen to improve the support you already provide.

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
What is primary science?	p. 3
Why science is an important subject in the curriculum	p. 3
How scientists think and work	p. 6
How children think and work scientifically	p. 6
How can the teaching assistant support primary science?	p. 8
Lesson planning	p. 10
Schemes of work	p. 10
Lesson plans	p. 11
The teaching assistant's role in the science lesson	p. 18
Effective questioning	p. 20
Why questioning is important in science	p. 20
Questioning and the science curriculum	p. 22
Different kinds of questions	p. 22
Using scientific language in questions	p. 25
Creating an effective questioning environment	p. 26
Supporting practical work	p. 29
Supporting learning before the lesson	p. 29
Supporting learning during the lesson	p. 30
Managing behaviour	p. 34
Developing children's ideas in science	p. 38
What are scientific concepts?	p. 38
How teachers find out what children know	p. 38
How to support the development of children's ideas in science	p. 43
Using scientific language	p. 45
Language in science	p. 45
Spelling strategies from literacy	p. 46
Children's experience of scientific vocabulary	p. 47
Children's writing about science	p. 48
Recording and communicating	p. 53
The challenges of supporting recording and communication in science	p. 53
Different approaches to recording and communicating in science	p. 54
Planning to support recording and communication	p. 61
Using equipment and resources	p. 63
Developing children's independence in using science equipment	p. 63
Ensuring health and safety	p. 64
Key science equipment	p. 66
Bibliography	p. 72
Index	p. 73
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