1. Good morning!
Please collect task 4 from the Task Folder at the front of the room.
Please place your completed task 5 in the Task Folder at the front of the room.

2. EPSTG – PRIMARY SCITT
SCIENCE DAY 6 Developing Scientific Enquiry Skills in the Context of Life and Living Processes
YVONNE CAPLES

3. Session objectives :
Consider a creative and practical range of strategies for learning and teaching in this area
Consider approaches to health education.
Develop ideas for a range of practical indoor and outdoor learning activities including Sc1.
Develop knowledge of progression routes within the relevant scientific concepts.

4. Recall … What are the different types of Scientific Enquiry?
List the key skills.
What do children have to learn in Life and Living Processes?

5. Parts of the body
Singing/action games - “Simon says …” “Heads, shoulders knees and toes.” One finger, one thumb…” “If you’re happy and you know it …”
Body parts – dice game
Labels game
What am I?
Surveys
Classifications
Singing games ; dice game; labels as a card per group; eye and hair colour;

6. Odd one out

7. re: In the zone materials
released for the Olympics
Predict and measure
Which did you prove?

8. To: SCITT trainees From: Winter Warmers
Subject : Help required with new hat and mitten set
Dear Trainees,
We are in urgent need of your help. Our development team have gone down with food poisoning and we are fast approaching a manufacturing deadline. Please investigate head circumferences and hand lengths (wrist to finger tips). Hats can stretch up to 4cm and mitten length up to 2cm. We are producing just one size of each and want to fit as many people as possible. Please report your findings and advise the sizes for manufacture.
Thank you,
Ivor Beret

9. “You will get better with practise …”
Reaction speeds
You will need a 30cm ruler and a partner.
With hand open and ready to catch the ruler, your partner, with 0cm level with top of your hand, will release the ruler for you to catch.
Which hand is dominant? Is the saying true?

10. Who is the fittest on your table?
What do you need to consider?
How will you find out?
Carry out your investigation.
Who has the largest lung capacity?
Recovery rates – stop watches and stethoscopes.

11. Is there a relationship between the number of breaths per minute and pulse rate?

12. Balanced diet Eating healthily from the 4 food groups
Be aware of the position of power you have as a teacher.
Take care to avoid stereotyping body shape when talking about fitness and healthy eating.
Avoid looking in lunch boxes unless it is school policy.
Design a healthy meal or daily menu.
Survey food wrappers for content and energy levels.
Look at the daily diet of an active athlete

14. Other animals and habitats
Use the outdoor classroom to look for mini-beasts
Field note books
Observational drawings and use of microscope/ hand lens
Data loggers to record conditions
Digital photographs
Classification

15. To find a poem…
A woodlouse Grey Oval Trundling along Like an army tank
What is it?
What colour is it?
What shape is it?
How does it move?
What does it remind you of?
Year 2 child observing a woodlouse

16. Cinquain : A five line poem 1st line-one word (a noun) naming the subject 2nd line-two words (adjectives) describing subject 3rd line –three words (verbs) describing subjects actions 4th line – four words giving writer’s opinion on subject 5th line – one word giving another name (synonym) for the subject
Lion
Angry, strong,
Roaring, scaring, surviving,
They hunt you unthinkingly
King
Water Splashy,soft Running, sloshing, dripping Too little means drought Life’s-blood
Film 13 mins.

19. Creative recording Journey sticks
Natural sculpture and weaving including plant materials

20. What am I?
Microscope image x60

21. Microscope image x10

22. Habitats Walls What would you do? Grass What questions would you ask?
Hedges
Trees
Log piles
Ponds
Gardens
Allotments
Bird tables
What would you do?
What questions would you ask?

23. 2 ideas to use in the classroom
Plenary Pyramid
Something to follow up
2 ideas to use in the classroom
3 important
things to remember