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Dunlop, Lynda; Airey, Jeremy; Turkenburg, Maria; Bennett, Judith – Primary Science, 2019
In December 2015, the Principia mission was launched and many schools took part in local or national activities associated with the Principia mission. Researchers at York undertook a three-year study to find out about the influence of human spaceflight on children's attitudes towards STEM subjects. Along with a large-scale survey, between November…
Descriptors: Space Sciences, Science Instruction, STEM Education, Teaching Methods
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Jones, Verity – Primary Science, 2017
As a teacher, author Verity Jones found for many years that the science knowledge and understanding of the children she taught in year 6 (age 10-11) was being compromised by the pressures of a government focus on maths and literacy and a short-sighted approach to how to teach those subjects in a cross-curricular way. As the science coordinator for…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teaching Assistants