This section contains the professional learning materials and supporting resources which can be used to support individual and school-led professional development across all areas of science, technology and engineering.
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Talk and discussion is a powerful tool to support teaching and learning in the primary classroom. The ‘Let’s Talk’ framework has been developed to support teachers in advancing their pupils’ thinking through the lens of talk and discussion.
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Scientific inquiry is an approach which emphasises children’s active participation in Science in ways that mirror how scientists work in real contexts. Through a scientific inquiry approach, children build and strengthen scientific skills, scientific knowledge and their understanding of the Nature of Science. While scientific inquiries can initially be instigated and led by teachers, they should advance to be more guided and increasingly child-led. This can offer children greater opportunities for agency and decision-making. Inquiry-based science is not a prescribed, uniform or linear process. As children progress through each stage, scientific inquiries can become more challenging, with children posing their own openended scientific questions, designing their own investigations and justifying their findings and conclusions. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Specification 2025 p36)
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Here we have some tasks relating to the scientific skills of – Scientific Questioning, Investigating, Observing, Inferring, Predicting, Classifying.
