Resources by Open University Press

This book from the Discovering Science series is about Earth and life through time.
Topics include:
• Fossils and the early history of life 
• More of life’s comings and goings 
• Minerals – the crystalline world 
• Igneous rocks – out of the melting pot 
• Sedimentary rocks –...

The main aim of these two units is to give you some insight into the methods used to reconstruct events in the Earth's history. So far, we have devoted most of our attention to the structure and evolutions of the Earth's crust. Now we examine the Earth's surface, what past environments must have been like and how...

Topics include:

• The Earth
• The Earth in the Solar System
• The Earth as a Body
• Seismic Waves and their use in determining the internal structure of the Earth
• The internal structure and composition of the Earth

This book draws on the life histories of headteachers, advisors, teachers and student teachers from black and ethnic communities to find out what their working lives are really like.

Detailed case studies and...

Educational leaders - whether in schools, colleges or higher education - are challenged with steering unprecedented change; educational management has never been more demanding. Within the context of a new 'learning...

Science teaching in schools is often criticized, especially by older students, for being too prescribed, too impersonal, too lacking in opportunity for personal judgement and creativity.

Science has become...

This book examines how teachers and students actually go about their classroom business. It carefully avoids the assumptions of policy-makers and theorists about what ought to be happening and focuses on what is...

This book describes the development of children's enquiry skills offering a rationale and theoretical basis for teaching and learning using this approach and showing its particular relevance to scientific enquiries....

This book is a rich resource intended to support teachers and teachers in training with their teaching of mathematics in the early years. It comprises twenty activities which can be used as starting points.

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How can teachers and other early years professionals improve their practice as science educators? What learning experiences will motivate children and develop scientific conceptual understanding, skills and attitudes...