Primary Plants: A Handbook for Teaching Plant Science in the Primary School - Softcover

Braund, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841900389 ISBN 13: 9781841900384

Publisher: Questions Publishing Co Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Why is teaching children about plants important? Despite being a key element of the NC science, children's knowledge of the plant world has been shown to be limited and many are unaware that the foods we eat, clothes we wear, products we wash with and the medicines we take are all plant-derived. Equally, some teachers may feel they lack the background knowledge to teach plant science effectively. Primary Plants addresses this problem by providing a detailed guide and reference source for primary school teachers. With time restrictions on science teaching, there are suggestions for linking this subject to literacy and numeracy, plus other curriculum areas such as PHSE and RE. Fully illustrated, the book includes a visual resource, a CD-ROM providing many fascinating beautifully photographed images of plants and flowers. A versatile resource, both for whole-class teaching and pupils' own topic work.

About this title

About the Author:

Martin Braund is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Educational Studies, University of York, UK. Martin taught Science, with a specialism in Biology in schools for 18 years. He is Adjunct Professor in Education and Social Sciences at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Questions Publishing Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1841900389
• ISBN 13: 9781841900384
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160