Thinking skills are a key feature of learning. These brilliant titles in the series will help you develop intellectual skills in children, such as reasoning and enquiry, information processing, creative thinking and evaluation skills.
This book aims to make more explicit the role of thinking skills in the teaching and learning of science for children aged 5 to 12 years.
Thinking Skills Science contains three lesson plans for each of the primary year groups.
- Year 1 - Growing plants - information processing skills
- Year 1 - Light and dark - creative thinking skills
- Year 1 - Sound and hearing - reasoning skills
- Year 2 - Growing seeds - evaluation skills
- Year 2 - Forces - enquiry skills
- Year 2 - Electrical circuits - enquiry skills
- Year 3 - Animal diets - information processing skills
- Year 3 - Rocks - information processing skills
- Year 3 - Light and shadows - creative thinking skills
- Year 4 - Food chains - enquiry skills
- Year 4 - Keeping things cool - enquiry skills
- Year 4 - Friction - reasoning skills
- Year 5 - Balanced diets - evaluation skills
- Year 5 - Evaporation - evaluation skills
- Year 5 - Heating water - enquiry skills
- Year 6 - Interdependence - reasoning skills
- Year 6 - Separating materials - information processing skills
- Year 6 - Apple browning - creative thinking skills
Teachers of any age group will find the book extremely useful - the lesson plans for one age range can easily be adapted to suit a different age group.
