Uni of Glos Primary Science

Tweets from the Primary Science team @UoGEducation Interested in all things Primary Science.

[Uni of Glos Education @UoGEducation]

Now with 2000 views: Questioning the role of questions by @DrColinForster, @JudePenny2 @BAPrimaryUSW @UoGPriScience
and @RussShalofsky: https://t.co/G2JM6gamkn .

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

Questioning the role of questions in primary science: @JudePenny2 and I have presented this research at @theASE and @pstt_whyhow conferences. Available as an open access article. @UoGEducation
https://t.co/icVSXY5osw

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

Research of interest to all working in ITE. Privilege to work with @TraceyWire, @REperjesi, @RuthHollier, @JudePenny2 and Emma Howell on this publication, in @UoGEducation Teacher Education Group: https://t.co/D1JohTFCFF. Limited number of free eprints.

[Uni of Glos Primary Science @UoGPriScience]

Excellent as ever @JudePenny2. Great learning opportunities about gravity and friction.

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

Penultimate day of the @UoGEducation Primary PGCE which means it’s time for @JudePenny2’s eggsperiment.

[Uni of Glos Primary Science @UoGPriScience]

Excellent tips here from @DrColinForster . Remember not to look directly at the sun, even if it’s cloudy. Use solar eclipse glasses or look for pinhole images.

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

Hoping for a break in the cloud to see the partial eclipse of the sun this morning. Pinhole images of the sun can be seen using a colander or by looking under a tree, where natural pinholes occur in the spaces between leaves. Photos from the partial solar eclipse in 2015.

[Uni of Glos Primary Science @UoGPriScience]

Great!

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

Just for fun, I got out my homemade chaotic double pendulum to show the students. One pendulum is one of the most predictable things in physics ... put one on the end of the other and they do something different every time. @UoGEducation

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

Slight change of name for the 2nd edition. Now includes a section on ‘the ontology thing’ and even more excellent pictures from the brilliant @daveboybrookes. Privilege, as ever, to work with @REperjesi and thank you to @SAGEeducation for the opportunity. @UoGEducation

[Uni of Glos Primary Science @UoGPriScience]

Some of our team have been discussing the double-edged nature of teachers’ questions with our @UoGEducation teaching students so it seemed like a good time to share a link to this helpful article: https://t.co/ELPRC5vQtm @DrColinForster @JudePenny2 @RussShalofsky

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

Is teaching about ‘covering or discovering’? Great piece from @alfiekohn which might be useful to @UoGEducation teaching students and particularly those teaching science on current placements. @UoGPriScience @JudePenny2

[Uni of Glos Primary Science @UoGPriScience]

Great work by our science and philosophy expert, @JudePenny2 . Such good session.

[Uni of Glos Primary Science @UoGPriScience]

A great session with our yr 1 BEd students this morning. Snail watching with @JudePenny2

[SIMMS PrimaryScience @SIMMSPriScience]

@ASE Futures members. You should find the latest Science Teacher Education edition (no. 88) in your inbox now. Great articles from
@DrColinForster
@JudePenny2
@sallylspicer
@trewlyalison
@RedPSTT
@MariaDent5
Please tag in anyone whose twitter handle I could not locate.

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

Looking forward to presenting, with @JudePenny2 at ASE Futures Conference Online 2020 https://t.co/82wSMQO4w3 @sched
How can we help new teachers become skilful in their interactions with children in primary science? Tricky and intriguing stuff.

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

Our research survey is still open to all teachers and other school staff with an interest in partnership with parents: https://t.co/emIK1zsCa8 . Would be great to hear from colleagues in all kinds of schools.

[Uni of Glos Primary Science @UoGPriScience]

@DrColinForster Looks like an interesting study, @DrColinForster.

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

Full moon tonight. The full moon often looks large in the summer months as it rises at a shallow angle and stays low in the sky. It looks large as it close to the skyline.

[Uni of Glos Primary Science @UoGPriScience]

Great fun and likely to provoke some good science questions.

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

Simple science activities: capturing sound with paper cones.
Here's a quick and simple activity to have some fun with. Take some paper or thin card and roll into cones to make ear-trumpets and megaphones. Amazing pics by @daveboybrookes. Adapted from this book.

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

If you've never seen a shooting star before, you're in luck: Lyrids meteor shower tonight. Don't get a bad neck by standing and looking up: sit in a comfortable, laid back chair or put down a rug and lie down to enjoy the show.
https://t.co/taOEjw77kx

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Please listen to Dr Catherine Motherway. We are sorely lacking these voices in Britain. Stark, angry, true

[Colin Forster @DrColinForster]

Just tinkering with magnifying glasses and inverted images as I mull over how to provide some useful online content for @UoGEducation BEd students. Nice model to kick start a discussion about light and sight. Yes, the image on your retina is upside down! @UoGPriScience