What does the programme consist of?

The programme comprises 20 activities based on various topics within the science curricula
that are typically taught to eight- and nine-year-old pupils. The selected topics are:
• Moving and growing;
• Habitats;
• Keeping warm;
• Solids and liquids;
• Friction;
• Circuits and conductors.
Each of the activities addresses one or more of the schemata of concrete operations, as follows:
• Classification;
• Causality,
• Seriation;
• Concrete modelling;
• Relationship between variables;
• Conservation.
The key features of each schema are outlined in a Schema Fact Box. It is important that you
read this explanation carefully, so that you become familiar with the underlying type of thinking
being developed in a particular set of activities. A description of each schema is also included in
Chapter 3.
Within each topic the activities appear in a suggested order, but the order of the topics
is not important.

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