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  • September 2nd, 2025Behind the Books, Teaching Tips
    Essential Primary Science Teaching Guide: Back to Science in School

    Back to Science in School As a science educator with years of classroom experience, I understand the unique challenges teachers

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  • March 13th, 2025Behind the Books
    Starting High School Science

    The science lab is a fascinating place for students starting high school, and science books should build on this excitement

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  • January 7th, 2025Behind the Books
    Hello and welcome!

    This is the first blog of a new era for me. I began writing posts for my blog ten years

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  • July 21st, 2017Behind the Books, Teaching Tips
    Using the books and films together

    In my last blog I talked about visual aids that I had used as a teacher many years ago and

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  • September 29th, 2016Behind the Books
    What can this be? Final two Curiosity Box books published

    The Curiosity Box series is now complete! The last two books in this six book series have just been published.

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  • September 8th, 2016Behind the Books
    Autumn science topics

    The science of the seasons As summer slips slowly into autumn this month, the topic of seasons naturally arises in

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  • July 21st, 2016Behind the Books
    Two more book in the Curiosity Box series now available

    Two more books in the Curiosity box series have just been published. They are Rocks and Fossils, and Minibeasts. If

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  • July 11th, 2016Behind the Books
    The final video in my Ways Into Science series is now finished

    The final video in my Ways Into Science series is now finished and live! In the video I talk about

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  • June 14th, 2016Behind the Books
    The changing of the seasons

    My new video to tie into my Ways Into Science series talks about the seasons. Using a simple model of

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  • April 25th, 2016Behind the Books
    Bring your habitat hat and join me in the rainforest

    Visiting the African rainforest In my new video, made to support the Habitats book in my Ways Into

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This website is dedicated to Ken Walker who was my first head of science back in 1971 who set me on a journey writing educational materials by asking me to make a booklet for 250 children visiting a zoo. He often reminded me of this but more importantly he was my mentor back in those days, letting me set up brand new science laboratories and run field courses at the schools outdoor pursuits centre and his advice stayed with me as I progressed in my teaching career and into my writing career too. Thanks Ken.

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