This workshop enables students to:
- Decide how to conduct a ‘pattern seeking’ scientific enquiry in order to answer a given question
- Practise their scientific enquiry skills - planning a method, taking and recording measurements, presenting and using data, using the data, drawing conclusions using scientific knowledge
- Describe the physical condition the Tropical Rainforest Biome and Mediterranean Biome
- Make predictions about the ways in which plants can be affected by changes in the environment.
We've designed the workshop to help teachers cover the following subject areas:
In Science pupils should be taught about working scientifically. This involves using different types of scientific enquiry in order to answer a given question and using a variety of different scientific enquiry skills. These skills include taking measurements, recording data, drawing conclusions based on data and observations, using scientific knowledge and understanding to explain findings and reporting and presenting findings from enquiries.
Pupils should be taught to identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways (evolution and inheritance)
Pupils should be taught to recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.
In Geography, pupils should be taught to locate the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. They should be able to describe and understand key aspects of physical geography such as climate zones and biomes.
In Maths, pupils should be taught to calculate and interpret the mean as an average.