This course aims to support primary school teachers and support staff in order to better equip them to integrate science into classroom activities.   Using a selection of readily available resources and simple hands-on approaches, the course will serve to embolden teachers to embrace science and enjoy the process of expanding the key scientific skills of: 

• Observing 
• Predicting and Questioning 
• Investigating and experimenting 
• Estimating and measuring 
• Analysing / Sorting and classifying 
• Recording and communicating 

The course will explore STEM subjects and connect them to each of these simple experiments.   

Teachers will be invited to participate with their own materials** if they so wish, or merely observe if they prefer. 

1. Fun with tennis balls - Exploring: Energy and Forces, Materials and Change 
2. Tinfoil boats and Pasta towers- Energy and Forces, Materials and Change and Living Things
3. Rocket Mice- Energy and Forces, Materials and Change 
4. The Best Bubbles- Energy and Forces, Materials and Change, Environmental Awareness and Change 
5. Paper Spinners- Living things, Energy and Forces, Materials and Change, Environmental Awareness and Change 

** a resource list will be shared in advance of the course date