Feb 03 2011
teaching scientific thinking
Over the past 18 months, I’ve been involved off-and-on with the Scottish end of a Science in Society project called S-TEAM, looking at inquiry-based science teaching.
As a member of the reference group, I’ve given my perspective as a classroom teacher and some of my classroom experiences of open-ended investigation with S1/S2 pupils have been included in articles on the nature of an inquiry-based approach to science in the classroom.
A shortened version of our first article has just been published in the February newsletter of the International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE). The article is based on work I did with a S2 class in 2008.
I blogged about the project at the time. You can download a pdf of the newsletter using the link at the end of this post, our article is on pages 6-8.
