ScienceThe importance of science within primary education is overwhelming. It stimulates and excites curiosity about phenomena and events. It satisfies curiosity with knowledge and because it links direct practical experience with ideas, it can engage learners at many levels.
Science teaches pupils how to look for evidence to support ideas and arguments, how to evaluate that evidence and how to communicate the results to a wider world. It explains how to make links between seemingly random and disparate ideas.Scientific investigation does not preclude the use of imagination. Far from it. Many of our greatest scientific discoveries and theories have sprung from such leaps and from serendipity, while the words “what if?” can begin many a journey discovery. This is one of the reasons why drama can be such an exciting way to look at this subject. Young Mr DarwinYoung Mr. Darwin has just arrived back in England from a five-year voyage around the world. He has brought back thousands of specimens and pages of notes from his travels and is determined to study the origins of life itself. It is late at night, 4 October, 1836 when he reaches home. The family has gone to bed and Darwin creeps into his bedroom to sleep, meaning to suprise his father and sisters at breakfast.But there, in the corner of his bedroom, he discovers a large black hole of nothingness and he is drawn into it, travelling through time to arrive at your school. Using his own theory of evolution as an example, Darwin explains about the way in which he and other scientists discover things. The interactive workshop looks at how scientists think and question and encourages pupils to do the same. From the earliest cave man to aspiring scientists of the future, discoveries are made through questioning, examining and testing. Darwin encourages your pupils not just to accept accepted truths but to challenge them; to build on other's work and learn from success and mistakes and to feel the excitement of trying to understand and improve our world. Return from
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