Part C Science

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BA BA Primary Education Quiz on Part C Science, created by sam.wilberforce on 03/03/2016.
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Question 1

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What is scientific enquiry?
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  • Allowing children to learn using a variety of approaches, including observing, identifying, classifying, pattern seeking, and fair testing.
  • Allows children to collect, analyse and present data.
  • A descriptive account of what scientists do and therefore does not provide the substantive knowledge that children need.

Question 2

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What type of understanding does scientific enquiry and concepts of evidence provide?
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  • Substantive understanding
  • Conceptual understanding

Question 3

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What does working scientifically provide children with?
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  • An understanding of the processes and methods of science
  • An understanding of concepts of science before they engage in scientific enquiry which is what scientists do.

Question 4

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What is substantive knowledge?
Answer
  • What scientists know
  • What scientists do
  • An understanding of the concepts of science

Question 5

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What is the process view of scientific enquiry?
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  • Gives ideas about the quality of data and its validity, therefore giving reasoning behind the actions of science.
  • Evaluating and planning experiments
  • It gives a descriptive account of what scientists do

Question 6

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Which scientific enquiry allows for a substantive understanding
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  • Process view
  • Concepts of evidence

Question 7

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What are the features of the process view?
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  • Develops routine in primary schools.
  • Involves evaluating and planning
  • Involves practical and non practical activities
  • Involves doing science practically

Question 8

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What is concepts of evidence?
Answer
  • A descriptive account of what scientists do
  • Gives ideas about the quality of data and its validity, therefore giving reasoning behind the actions of science.
  • Allows children to be aware of the quality of evidence which informs the claims that they make
  • Gives an understanding of how control variables affect the dependant variable

Question 9

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Which is consistent with a constructivist view of knowledge?
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  • Concepts of evidence
  • Process view

Question 10

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What does teaching the process view look like?
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  • Keeping everything the same
  • Doing a set number of repeats and no trials
  • Testing trials
  • Being focused on validity
  • Being focused on getting the right answer
  • Constant routine

Question 11

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What does concepts of evidence look like in the classroom?
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  • Children making informed decisions on number of repeats and trials
  • Just practical work
  • Practical and non practical ideas

Question 12

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What practical activities teach substantive and concepts of evidence?
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  • Observations
  • Illustrative practicals
  • Didactic teaching
  • Basic skills practicals
  • Whole and part of investigations

Question 13

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Which non practical activities teach substantive ideas and concepts of evidence?
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  • Using text
  • Discussion and presentations
  • Observations
  • Use of models
  • Using second hand data and evaluating investigations

Question 14

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Which is not clear in the national curriculum?
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  • Concepts of evidence
  • Process view

Question 15

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Which allows for a deeper understanding through constructivism and transmits the importance of scientific processes?
Answer
  • Process view
  • Concepts of evidence

Question 16

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What should children understand?
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  • That measurement has an inbuilt uncertainty
  • That measurements are exact
  • Repeat readings may be needed
  • There is a margin of error
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