Research project
Secondary National Strategy: Effective practice in Interactive Teaching
- Start date: 1 March 2007
- End date: 30 April 2009
- Funder: Secondary National Strategy
- Primary investigator: Dr Jaume Amettler
- Co-investigators: Dr Jenny Lewis, 00045303
- External co-investigators: Ms. Jan Peckett, Ms. Jane Bourne, Mr. Julian Clarke - National Strategy
This project was commissioned by the Secondary National Strategy. Using recent research findings from two ESRC-funded research projects (EPSE and Dialogic Teaching), members of the CSSME worked with officers of the National Strategy and a large group of teachers to develop short teaching sequences to introduce key scientific ideas to students at ks3 (11-13). The teaching sequences are:
- Explaining change processes using a simple particle model of matter [PDF: 2.46MB]
- Explaining how electric circuits work [PDF: 2.76MB]
- Force and motion [PDF: 2.47MB]
- Key concepts in genetics [PDF: 2.59MB]
- Modelling matter: the nature of bonding [PDF: 1.36MB]
- Plant nutrition: from common sense to scientific views [PDF: 1.68MB]
- Voltage, energy and power in electric circuits [PDF: 2.33MB]
- Behaviour
- Light
In each teaching sequence:
- The introduction of ideas is planned and sequenced to take account of research findings about teaching and learning science
- Teaching activities are planned to support communication between teachers and students that will promote learning - this is termed interactive teaching by the National Strategy
Professional development materials are currently being produced to support science teachers in using these materials to promote interactive teaching.