Science Learning Centre

Around the country there are Science Learning Centres which provide the highest quality Continuing Professional Development for everyone involved in science education, at all levels. With a network of ten Centres across the country access to innovative and inspiring courses is within easy reach of anyone.

On Friday I ran an interesting session entitles 'Using ICT to support and enhance science teaching in KS1 and KS2 - Investigating Materials' for a small group of primary teachers. This was the first of three sessions, the others, coming in the next two months being 'Physical Processes' and 'Life Processes and Living things'.

The day covered many things including:
Using Interactive Whiteboards in science teaching
Data Handling
Using internet resources in science
Datalogging
Digital cameras and microscopes

We also looked at a selection of CD based resources

During the session we got quite hooked on 'social bookmarking',saving the useful website that we found into 'del.icio.us' so that they could be accessed anywhere/anytime. This broached ideas on having school access to the 'del.icio.us' so that teachers could share effectively important site for curriculum contexts thus cutting down on the time it takes to assemble resources.