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Author(s): Rob Toplis
ISBN(s): 9780203838266, 0203838262
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.63 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415562805

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Author: Rob Toplis

How Science Works provides student and practising teachers with a comprehensive introduction to one of the most dramatic changes to the secondary science curriculum. Underpinned by the latest research in the field, it explores the emergence and meaning of How Science Works and reviews major developments in pedagogy and practice. With chapters structured around three key themes – why How Science Works, what it is and how to teach it – expert contributors explore issues including the need for curriculum change, arguments for scientific literacy for all, school students’ views about science, what we understand about scientific methods, types of scientific enquiry, and, importantly, effective pedagogies and their implications for practice. Aiming to promote discussion and reflection on the ways forward for this new and emerging area of the school science curriculum, it considers: teaching controversial issues in science argumentation and questioning for effective teaching enhancing investigative science and developing reasoned scientific judgments the role of ICT in exploring How Science Works teaching science outside the classroom. How Science Works is a source of guidance for all student, new and experienced teachers of secondary science, interested in investigating how the curriculum can provide creativity and engagement for all school students.

Table of contents: 

1 How Did We Get Here? Some Background to How Science Works in the School Curriculum
Introduction
Acting Like Real Scientists? Practical Work in School Science
Science for All?
Why Do You Need to Know? Science in Context, Science in Society
Towards a National Curriculum for Science
Curriculum by Order: A Critical View of the Science Curriculum Since 1989
A New Dawn? The Science Curriculum Since 2004
Conclusion
2 What do Students Think About Science?
Introduction
Is Science Important to Students?
Students’ Interest in Science
Students’ Views of Biological Sciences
Students’ Views of the Physical Sciences
Students’ Views of Practical Science
Students’ Views of Less Interesting Aspects of Science
Conclusion
3 How Do Scientists Work?
Children’s Characterization of a Scientist
Breaking the Stereotype
The Roots of Science
The Scientific Revolution
The Language of Science
Scientific Theories
Facts and Science
How Science Proceeds
Conclusion
4 The Place of Scientific Inquiry in the How Science Works Curriculum
Practical Work in the School Science Curriculum
Chasing the Right Answer
Addressing the Problem Through the How Science Works Curriculum
Concluding Comments
Summary
5 Teaching Controversial Issues in Science
Introduction
What are Controversial Issues?
Teaching Socio-Scientific Issues
What Do Students Need to Know?
Sunbeds: ‘As Long as You Don’t Use the Sunbed too Much I’M Sure You’ll be Fine’
Bioinformation and Personal Privacy: ‘If You’re Innocent, What Have You Got To Worry About?’
Conclusion
6 Argumentation
Introduction
Argumentation Activities
Teachers Scaffolding Argumentation
Introducing Argument
Managing Small-Group Discussions
Teaching Argument
Resources for Argumentation
Evaluating Argument
Modelling Argument
Conclusion
7 Questions and Science
Introduction
A Question of Questions
Empirical Questions, Thought Experiments
Kinds of Classroom Questions
Classroom Cultures
Encouraging ‘Quoughts’
Encouraging Empirical Questions
Quoughts for Teachers
Final Quoughts
8 Enhancing Investigative Science
Constructing Meaning: The Problem
Inquiry (Deductive): Reformulation
Direct Interactive: Experimenting – Carrying Out
Inductive Inquiry
Using Models, Interpretation and Evaluation
Conclusion
9 The Role of Information and Communications Technology
Introduction
Data Collection
Storing and Sharing Data
Processing Data: Analysing and Modelling
Sharing Results and Making Decisions
Conclusion
10 Teaching Science Outside the Classroom
Introduction
The Benefits of Outdoor Science Education
What Does Learning How Science Works Involve?
Teaching How Science Works Outside the Classroom
Public Participation in Scientific Research (PPSR)
Developing Teachers’ Practice in Teaching Beyond the Classroom

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