The aim this series is to empower students to say what they think and feel about their science learning throughout a continuous process of concept development. The worksheet activities will encourage student talk and avoid the spiral of silence that can surround teaching as concepts increase in complexity. Science Circles goes beyond simply presenting concepts. This series encourages the development of science understanding as a way for students to make sense of the world.
Topics include:
- The nature of science - Using science
- Biology - Classifying living things
- Biology - Units of life
- Chemistry - Units of matter
- Chemistry - Out of the mix
- Earth science - Cracked egg Earth
- Physics - Looking a light
- Physics - Electric circuits
- Environment - Future energy supplies
- Astronomy - Earth, Moon and Sun
- Planning and self-evaluation.
