Making sense of secondary science: research into children's ideas
Making Sense of Secondary Science provides a concise, accessible summary of international research into learners' ideas about science, presenting evidence-based insight into the conceptions that learners hold, before and even despite teaching.
With expert summaries from across the science domains, it covers research findings from life and living processes, materials and their properties and physical processes.
This classic text is essential reading for all trainee secondary, elementary and primary school science teachers, as well as those researching the science curriculum and science methods, who want to deepen their understanding of how learners think and to use these insights to inform teaching strategies.
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