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Name: Teaching Science to Young Children:Practical Advice
ID: m14527
Language: English (en)
Summary: Traditionally, in England at least, science has not been taught formally to young children in a thorough systematic way. Adults who are middle aged or older now, frequently had very little science education, if any at all. Nowadays things have changed considerably for the better, but this does mean that primary school teachers find themselves having to teach science to their young charges with little confidence in their own knowledge and little experience from their own childhood. This module offers practical advice on teaching science to children aged 5 –7 in a fun and effective way.
Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Keywords: activities, education, eperiment, experimental, experimentally, learning, practical, science, teach, teacher, teaching
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: Theresa Knott (theresaknott@gmail.com)
Copyright Holders: Theresa Knott (theresaknott@gmail.com)
Maintainers: Theresa Knott (theresaknott@gmail.com)
Latest version: 1.1 (history)
First publication date: Apr 16, 2007 8:35 am GMT-5
Last revision to module: May 15, 2007 10:25 am GMT-5
Module XML: m14527_1.1.cnxml

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Version: 1.1 May 15, 2007 10:25 am GMT-5 by Theresa Knott
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