{"product_id":"making-sense-of-secondary-science","title":"Making Sense of Secondary Science","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat ideas do children hold about the natural world?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow do these ideas affect their learning of science?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung learners bring to the classroom knowledge and ideas about many aspects of the natural world constructed from their experiences of education and from outside school. These ideas contribute to subsequent learning, and research has shown that teaching of science is unlikely to be effective unless it takes learners’ perspectives into account.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Secondary Science\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. It also provides a baseline for researchers wishing to investigate contemporary influences on children’s ideas and to study the persistence of these conceptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth components of \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Secondary Science\u003c\/i\u003e – this book and the accompanying teacher’s resource file, \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Secondary Science: Support materials for teachers\u003c\/i\u003e - were developed as a result of a collaborative project between Leeds City Council Department of Education and the Children’s Learning in Science Research Group at the University of Leeds, UK. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54234605125976,"sku":"9781138814462","price":179.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138814462_488f02d8-e6b8-4c70-97f5-5fcf3bd3f5c3.jpg?v=1778730359","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/making-sense-of-secondary-science","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}