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Required Practicals in GCSE and A Level Sciences

November 30, 2021November 30, 2021Oxford Science Team
Required Practicals in GCSE and A-level Sciences

Sam Holyman outlines required practicals for GCSE and A-level Science specifications that they are studying, including why they are vital in the school curriculum.

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Beasts, whirligigs, and raindrops: engineering, art, and the play of the imagination

May 23, 2016May 23, 2016Eileen Dombrowski
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On this fine day in May, most Theory of Knowledge students in the northern hemisphere are surely preoccupied with only a certain aspect of knowledge: how well to demonstrate it, in relevant forms, on examinations. So today let me suggest that tired students deserve to be invited away from exam stress through their senses and […]

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Spark your students’ interest in science

December 10, 2015December 18, 2015Oxford Science Team

My daughter was indignant to be rewarded by her primary school for reading at home six times in a week. The pleasure from her books, she told me, was reward itself. This got me thinking. In school science, do we focus on the intrinsic rewards of the subject itself, or are extrinsic rewards – achieving […]

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Practical science: why do we do it?

December 3, 2015March 7, 2016Oxford Science Team

Experimentation is the essence of learning science. Learning science without practical work is like learning literature without reading books. This has been the mantra for science teaching, in the UK at least, since universal science education began in the 1980s. But with school and college budgets reducing, practical work is under scrutiny as never before, […]

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