Learn teaching strategies and tools to make the transition to online primary science teaching easier during the COVID-19 pandemic. Keep your primary school students inspired by science whilst learning at home. Primary school science teaching often involves sparking students’ imagination through practical activities.
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As schools close due to the coronavirus pandemic, primary science teachers must learn innovative new ways of teaching young students science using online and offline learning.
On this course, you’ll consider the new learning environment of your pupils, the role of parents in your teaching, and discover new science activities your pupils can do from home.
You’ll explore a variety of asynchronous teaching and learning tools, and have the chance to collaborate and discuss these new challenges with other teachers.
Syllabus
Week 1: Expectations, working with parents and planning activities
Week 2: Activities for home learning and scientific enquiry
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Design a blended approach to teaching primary science, with offline and online activities to support pupils learning from home.
- Develop your plans to work with parents to support pupils learning at home.
- Evaluate a range of teaching strategies and tools, appropriate to your teaching context and teaching remotely.
- Identify primary science activities that can be undertaken at home.
