Primary Science: Knowledge and Understanding

by Graham A Peacock, John Sharp, Rob Johnsey, Debbie Wright

Overview

All the subject knowledge you need to teach primary science.

If you are training to be a primary school teacher, you need to understand what you need to know about primary science before you can teach it.

To help you build your subject knowledge, this comprehensive text includes subject knowledge from each part of the primary science curriculum and comes with a wide range of resources so you can test you knowledge as you progress through the course.

• an online science subject knowledge audit with the ability to share results
• end of chapter self-assessment questions
• Interactive tasks
• a science subject knowledge checklist
• useful weblinks for primary science teaching
• Recommended further reading

This new edition comes with a new chapter on science in curriculum.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529681154
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/24/2024
Series:	Achieving QTS Series
Edition description:	Tenth Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.73(w) x 9.68(h) x (d)

About the Author

Graham Peacock is Principal Lecturer in Education at Sheffield Hallam University. He has taught children across the primary and secondary age ranges.

John Sharp is Professor of Higher Education and Head of the Lincoln Higher Education Research Institute (LHERI) at the University of Lincoln.

Rob Johnsey, formerly a primary school teacher, lectured in primary science in the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick for several years.

Debbie Wright is the BEd (Primary) Programme Director at Rolle School of Education, University of Plymouth. She has extensive experience of primary teaching, and of lecturing in primary science education.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 Functioning of organisms: green plants 6

3 Functioning of organisms: humans and other animals 22

4 Continuity and change 47

5 Ecosystems 60

6 Materials 70

7 Particle theory and the conservation of mass 86

8 Electricity and magnetism 103

9 Energy 117

10 Forces and motion 131

11 Light 145

12 Sound 158

13 The Earth and beyond 169

Self-assessment questions 185

Answers to self-assessement questions 193

Glossary 203

Index 211