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Issue: May 2013 128
- Focus on…Let them go?
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Issue: May 2013 128
- Notice Board
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Issue: May 2013 128
- Giving children ownership of their science investigations is easier than you might think
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Issue: May 2013 128
Author: Bridget Holligan
Extract: Bridget Holligan believes that giving children more control over what and how they investigate can really engage and motivate them in science but how do you make it manageable?
- A child-centred approach to learning about healthy eating
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Issue: May 2013 128
Author: Francesca Telford
Extract: Trainee teacher Francesca Telford describes how a cross-curricular, child centred approach and a relevant context engaged a class of 8- to 10-year olds with learning about healthy food and nutrition.
- ‘Egg races’ and other practical challenges
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Issue: May 2013 128
Author: Geoff Auty
Extract: Geoff Auty discusses the ideas behind science and technology challenges and shares his own experiences of ‘egg races'.
- Working wonders
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Issue: May 2013 128
Author: Lynne Bianchi
Extract: Lynne Bianchi shares the information about children’s scientific wonderings that she and others have found in a recent project.
- To lead or not to lead?
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Issue: May 2013 128
Author: Maria Bertenshaw, Katie Bradford, Natalie Burns, Rachel Flux and Danielle Horan
Extract: Explore being facilitators in lessons focusing on microorganisms
- Learning about yeast through science, art and poetry
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Issue: May 2013 128
Author: Lois Kelly and Alison Brade
Extract: Lois Kelly and Alison Brade describe a cross-curricular project designed to enhance learning about micro-organisms.
- It is well worth taking a closer look
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Issue: May 2013 128
Author: Peter Sainsbury
Extract: Peter Sainsbury advocates the use of microscopes in the primary classroom to transform the familiar into something quite amazing.
