Materials : visiting a watermill.
Year 3 class teacher Clare James has devised a KS2 Science lesson on materials. The lesson was inspired by visits the children made to a working water mill. Clare brings the outside environment back into school by inviting mill education officer Elfyn Morris into the classroom with his model water w...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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[London] :
Teachers TV/UK Dept. of Education,
2005.
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| Series: | Education in video
KS2 science ; 1-2 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Year 3 class teacher Clare James has devised a KS2 Science lesson on materials. The lesson was inspired by visits the children made to a working water mill. Clare brings the outside environment back into school by inviting mill education officer Elfyn Morris into the classroom with his model water wheel and grindstone. Clare also enlists the help of Jane Turner from the Science Learning Centre. Lesson activities include a water-play area using real materials, a clay table for the children to replicate the textures of materials they found at the mill, a scratch test table where they investigate the hardness of materials, and a Material Trail display of photographs and drawings showing what they ve learned. In the plenary the children report back and demonstrate their findings to each other, and the programme concludes with Clare and Jane's analysis of how the lesson went with their opinions of what worked well and what could be improved for next time. Discover if a watermill can be a good location for a KS2 Science lesson on materials. Year 3 class teacher Clare James from Canterbury Cross Primary in Birmingham and Jane Turner from The Science Learning Centre (East of England) visit Sarehole Mill in Hall Green. The mill contains a wealth of different materials for the children to discover in an evocative and stimulating setting. Clare and Jane discuss the pros, cons and pitfalls of such a visit and Clare enlists the help of Mill Education Officer Elfyn Morris to assist her on the day. When the children arrive they are given a material trail worksheet to help them conduct their investigations and they re encouraged to ask questions about the materials they find around them. The programme concludes with Clare and Jane looking back on how the day has gone and assessing how successful the visit has been in meeting the learning objective. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (28 min.). |
| Playing Time: | 00:14:26 |