Teaching sequence for science

Explore it / Tell me about it / Have a R.I.O.T / Explain it
Skills the children might learn
  • Exploring
  • Noticing
  • Observing
  • Asking questions
  • Speaking
  • Playing
/ Skills the children might learn
  • Observing
  • Describing
  • Comparing
  • Sorting
  • Order
  • Classifying
/ Skills the children might learn
  • Researching
  • Talk about what might happen/ make a prediction
  • Testing ideas
  • Measuring
  • Planning fair tests
  • Selecting equipment
  • Collecting evidence/ data/ information
  • Recording (tables and graphs)
/ Skills the children might learn
  • Talk about what they found out
  • Explaining
  • Identifying patterns in data
  • Interpreting data
  • Communicating findings
  • Considering accuracy and reliability in data.
  • Concluding
  • Evaluating

Learning strategies
Tell me
Draw it
I wonder…
Ask me
The art of noticing
Thinking mats
20 Golden Questions
Go for walks
Collections to explore (objects, pictures, books)
Watch video clips / Learning strategies
Tell me
Odd one out
Write it
I am thinking of…/ Magic box
The art of noticing
Same Same but different
20 Golden Questions
Splat
Bingo
Quickdraw
Hot seating
Taboo
Graphic organizers / Learning strategies
Practical work
Tell me
I wonder…
Ask me
Discovery Dog
Post it planning/planning house
Sequencing
R.I.O.T grid
Fair test scramble*
Planning posers*
Concept cartoons
Human bar/line graphs
Text to table
POEE / Learning strategies
Tell me
Write it
Sequencing
Design it
PMI
Silly or sensible
Odd one out
Thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs sideways*
Outcomes
Post its
Photographs
Observations of children
Children’s comments
Children’s questions
Videos
Sound recordings
Poems
Writing
Mind maps / Outcomes
Writing
Tables
Comparison grids
Venn diagrams
Photographs
Carroll diagrams
Branching databases (keys)
Pictures/drawings (annotated)
Poems / Outcomes
Writing
Plans for investigations
Written or verbal predictions
Tables
Fact files
Photographs
Observations of children
Children’s comments
Videos
Sound recordings
Diagrams
Models
Top trumps / Outcomes
Writing
Observations of children
photographs
Children’s comments
Videos
Sound recordings
Diagrams
Models
ICT

* See ‘Scientific Enquiry Revision Games’ Millgate House Publishing