P105 - Science & Fun in Primary School

Sessions	Dates	Start	Finish
1	15 Feb 2010	09:00 AM	12:00 PM

Primary School.

- The main aim of this workshop is to provide teachers with very important tools when dealing with science.

- Using hands-on activities teachers will acquire the background needed to design their own experiments, to identify variables and report results. All of them are key aspects when making science.

- Through hands on experiments teachers are expected to learn how to:
- Design their own experiments.
- Identify variables (independent , dependent and constant).
- Report results (data colletion /data analysis).

The topics to be developed are:
- living things, characteristics, cell respiration, carbon dioxide.
- Starch, polymers, food.
- Dealing with results.
- Reporting results.
- Identifying variables and designing your own activities.

- The Science Chef, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Integrated Science 1, Oxford University Press.
- Food technology to GCSE, Oxford University Press.
- Quimica Culinaria, Editorial Acribia, SA.

The workshop is divided into theoretical and practical aspects. Introduction: - How to deal with science. - Variables, independent, dependent and constant. - Positive and negative controls. Experiments: - Using starch at home. - Identifying starch in plants (leaves and seeds). - Starch as a food additive. - Yeast and cell respiration. - Release of CO2. Rounding up activity: By the end of the workshop, teachers are going to be given exercises to relate the different contents and apply them to new situations.