Knowledge, skills and understanding for Science Teaching Jobs
Teaching should ensure that 'scientific enquiry' is taught through contexts taken from the sections on 'life processes and living things', 'materials and their properties' and 'physical processes'.
- Ideas and evidence in science
- Investigative skills
- Obtaining and presenting evidence
- Considering evidence
- Evaluating
Breadth of Study for Science Teaching Jobs
- During the key stage, pupils should be taught Knowledge, skills and understanding
- During the key stage, pupils should be taught health and safety
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Notes for Science Teaching Jobs
During key stage 3 pupils build on their scientific knowledge and understanding and make connections between different areas of science. They use scientific ideas and models to explain phenomena and events, and to understand a range of familiar applications of science. They think about the positive and negative effects of scientific and technological developments on the enviroment and in other contexts. They take accounts of others' views and understand why opinions may differ. They do more quantitative work, carrying out investigations on their own and with others. They evaluate their work, in particular the strength of the evidence they and others have collected. They select and use a wide range of reference sources. They communicate clearly what they did and its significance. They learn how scientists work together on present day scientific developments and about the importance of experimental evidence in supporting scientific ideas.
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