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Best Evidence Science Teaching
Best Evidence Science Teaching - age 7 to11
The best teaching draws on the best evidence.
Amid increasing calls for evidence-based practice in classrooms, teachers’ lives are usually too busy for them to comprehensively access and implement the best evidence we can find emerging from education research.
Best Evidence Science Teaching for primary school science (Primary BEST) is a collection of research evidence-informed teaching and learning resources, for children age 7 to 11. All of the resources are developed by the University of York Science Education Group, in collaboration with of the Centre for Industry Education Collaboration, a team of primary science experts at the University of York.
The Salters’ Institute has funded the BEST project since it began in 2016. The Institute of Physics has co-funded the BEST 11 to 16 project since 2021, and the Earth and Space Primary BEST topic has been funded by the Ogden Trust.
Research evidence-informed progression toolkits for key concepts in science provide:
- appropriately-sequenced steps for learning progression
- diagnostic questions to reveal preconceptions and common misunderstandings
- response activities to challenge misunderstandings and encourage conceptual development
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We live on the Earth and it is the only planet that we know that has abundant and complex life. It is important we understand how the Earth and space systems interact and how this affects us.
“Earth and Space” is one of the topics in the Best Evidence Science Teaching collection for pupils aged 7 to 11....
A big idea in chemistry is the idea of how substances behave and change. This is important because we are surrounded by objects made from different materials, each with their own physical properties that make them suitable or unsuitable for different purposes. How substances behave helps us to categorise them into...
This collection highlights BEST age 11-14 resources that overlap with primary science so can be used when teaching primary science. These have been organised into English national curriculum topics.
Some diagnostic questions from BEST 11-14 have been adapted for use in primary science (age 7-11). The development and adaptation of these diagnostic questions was part of a pilot study which was funded by the Salters’ Institute.
The diagnostic...
| Subject(s) | Science |
|---|---|
| Age | 7-11 |
| Published | 2020 to date |
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cxhrme |
