Teaching Primary Science Constructively helps readers to create effective science learning experiences for primary students by using a constructivist approach to learning. This best-selling text explains the principles of constructivism and their implications for learning and teaching, and discusses core strategies for developing science understanding and science inquiry processes and skills. Chapters also provide research-based ideas for implementing a constructivist approach within a number of content strands. Throughout there are strong links to the key ideas, themes and terminology of the revised Australian Curriculum: Science. This sixth edition includes a new introductory chapter addressing readers’ preconceptions and concerns about teaching primary science.

1. Primary science: every teacher, every child
2. Constructivist views of learning and teaching science
3. Implementing the Australian Curriculum: Science with a constructivist mindset
4. Thinking and working scientifically
5. Energy
6. Electricity
7. Movement and force
8. Living things and environments
9. Living things: science and design and technologies
10. Materials and their properties
11. Physical and chemical change
12. Our place in space
13. Our planet Earth
14. Weather and our environment
Coda
Appendix 1: At a glance: key teaching and learning strategies and other pedagogical topics
Appendix 2: At a glance: key content knowledge

Teaching Primary Science Constructively helps readers to create effective science learning experiences for primary students by using a constructivist approach to learning. This best-selling text explains the principles of constructivism and their implications for learning and teaching, and discusses core strategies for developing science understanding and science inquiry processes and skills. Chapters also provide research-based ideas for implementing a constructivist approach within a number of content strands. Throughout there are strong links to the key ideas, themes and terminology of the revised Australian Curriculum: Science. This sixth edition includes a new introductory chapter addressing readers’ preconceptions and concerns about teaching primary science. Aligned and updated throughout to reflect the revised Australian Curriculum: Science Discussion of science within the context of STEM throughout the new edition NEW Coda at the end of the book revisits the introductory concepts and ties them all together with the specific science subjects covered in chapters 5 to 14 Two new appendices created from one previous edition appendix. NEW Appendix 1 'At a glance: key teaching and learning strategies and other pedagogical topics' and NEW Appendix 2: 'At a glance: key content knowledge' provide quick references to coverage of teaching strategies and content knowledge Help readers understand and alleviate their preconceptions and concerns about teaching primary science through reading new content in the very first chapter, Chapter 1 'Primary science: every teacher, every child' AC icons throughout the text indicate quotes from the Australian Curriculum: Science Icons in the margins highlight ideas and discussions that are relevant to key strands and themes from the Australian Curriculum: Science, including: CCP = Cross-curriculum priorities, GC = General capabilities, and SHE = Science as a human endeavour Help readers address cross-curriculum priorities through the discussion of science in relation to the others elements of STEM throughout the text NEW Coda at the end of the book consolidates student learning by tying together the concepts from the introductory chapters with the context that has been provided by reading the other chapters