Course Details Teaching creative problem solving and reasoning skills is vitally important. So, however you choose to teach science and maths, the knowledge you teach is simply not enough on its own. You also also need to give your pupils practice in the higher-order creative thinking skills as well, such as applying, analysing, problem solving, reasoning and enquiry. ‘Dr Mark’s’ lively and entertaining day is full of his fun, novel and easy to deliver hands on science and maths investigations, experiments, puzzles, tricks and other engaging activities and ideas all designed to stimulate, enrich and inspire the mathematical and scientific mind of your pupils and get them into the creative higher order thinking and learning mode effectively and naturally, almost without them realising they are doing it! It’s teachingcreative thinking and learning by stealth!This course will:Show you a way of teaching science and maths that is particularly effective for stimulating the higher order creative thinking skills – especially problem solving andreasoning - essential for grasping any subject well.Give you a hundreds of science and maths activities to take straight back to the classroom that will inspire and really engage your pupils about science and maths.Show you a range of engaging science and maths activities from across the curriculum, with particular focus on the often more difficult to teach physical sciences, including forces and motion, chemical reactions and properties of materials, as well as a look at number, shape, space and measurement, and handling data.Show how such activities can be used in a variety of ways, from quick lesson starters or enders, to full length lesson investigations, for events, clubs, and even as engaging homeworks...
Teaching creative problem solving and reasoning skills is vitally important. So, however you choose to teach science and maths, the knowledge you teach is simply not enough on its own. You also also need to give your pupils practice in the higher-order creative thinking skills as well, such as applying, analysing, problem solving, reasoning and enquiry. ‘Dr Mark’s’ lively and entertaining day is full of his fun, novel and easy to deliver hands on science and maths investigations, experiments, puzzles, tricks and other engaging activities and ideas all designed to stimulate, enrich and inspire the mathematical and scientific mind of your pupils and get them into the creative higher order thinking and learning mode effectively and naturally, almost without them realising they are doing it! It’s teachingcreative thinking and learning by stealth!This course will:Show you a way of teaching science and maths that is particularly effective for stimulating the higher order creative thinking skills – especially problem solving andreasoning - essential for grasping any subject well.Give you a hundreds of science and maths activities to take straight back to the classroom that will inspire and really engage your pupils about science and maths.Show you a range of engaging science and maths activities from across the curriculum, with particular focus on the often more difficult to teach physical sciences, including forces and motion, chemical reactions and properties of materials, as well as a look at number, shape, space and measurement, and handling data.Show how such activities can be used in a variety of ways, from quick lesson starters or enders, to full length lesson investigations, for events, clubs, and even as engaging homeworks...
"Dr Mark’ (aka Dr Mark Biddiss) specialises in using simple, fun and novel ways of engaging both pupils and teachers alike about science and maths. Since 1997, ‘Dr Mark’ has visited many hundreds of schools with his novel and lively pupil shows, hands-on pupil workshops and teachers’ CPD/INSET sessions, and continues to do so.He has produced several innovative teachers’ and pupils’ science and maths resources, now used by thousands of teachers across the UK and overseas. He isrecommended by a number of teacher training colleges, and is a regular conference events all over the UK, including over ten years at the TES events. Dr Mark was even featured in a teachers’ TV programme about his work: ‘INSPIRATIONS: Magical Science & Maths’."