Teaching Tips

A couple of months ago, I visited my great-granddaughter's forest school, and we explored their wildlife patch for minibeasts.

The Patch on the Planet is an item in the Archives and features videos of my patch, each with a

Back in Science Week, I set the school a challenge to use the Science Star in their science lessons. I

The overarching theme for Science Week this year at Settle Primary School is "thinking like a scientist" and applying the

I was invited into my great-granddaughters’ nursery class at a forest school. The topic was mini beasts, with a passing

A group of small clouds passing by Clouds are made up from millions of tiny water droplets that

Children often ask questions which need a scientific explanation. The memory of the explanations can be extended when an activity

In recent blogs I have been considering the science people remember from their school days and also suggesting that science

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

When I began teaching over forty-five years ago visual aids for science were in their infancy. Some of the laboratories