Creative Teaching: Science in the Early Years and Primary Classroom

Practical, useful and informative, this book provides ideas and suggestions on how to interpret and develop the primary science curriculum in an interesting and challenging way. Bringing together creative thinking and principles that still meet National Curriculum requirements, the themes in the book encourage teachers to: teach science with creative curiosity value the unpredictable and unplanned thrive on a multiplicity of creative approaches, viewpoints and conditions be creative with cross-curricular and ICT opportunities reflect on their own practice. For teachers new and old, this book will make teaching and learning science fun by putting creativity and enjoyment firmly back onto the primary agenda.

time; science curriculum time in English primary schools reduced from around 20
per cent to 10 per cent over the 1990s (OfSTED 1999) and the introduction of
National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies further relegated it to an 'afternoon' ...