Learning Science Outside the Classroom

Michael Reiss editor Martin Braund editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:15th Jul '04

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This book shows how a wide range of contexts for learning science can be used outside of the classroom, and includes learning:

  • at museums, science centres and planetaria
  • from newspapers, magazines and through ICT
  • at industrial sites and through science trails
  • at zoos, farms, botanic gardens, residential centres and freshwater habitats
  • in school grounds.

With contributions from well known and respected practitioners in all fields of science education and through using case studies, Learning Science Outside the Classroom offers practical guidance for teachers, assistant teaching staff and student teachers involved in primary and secondary education. It will help enable them to widen the scientific experience and understanding of pupils.

The advice in this book has been checked for safety by CLEAPSS.

'This book will be welcomed by pragmatists and environmentalists alike. It is a passport to taking children out of the classroom and beyond into the real world: a real advocate for life-long learning.' - Liz Lakin, Primary Science Review

'This is a well-timed book ... Each case study offers practical guidance in making the most of the opportunity ... I kept on finding myself nodding in agreement with the comments on how fieldwork makes science come to life.' - Sian Crisp, Primary Science & Technology Today

'...provides answers to most of the problems teachers are likely to face in organising a trip and gives guidance on how to get the most out of the site to be studied...This book will be useful to teachers who are looking to change their science courses to include activities that will help prepare their students for life in the 21st century.' - John Parkinson, Education in Chemistry, January 2006


'This book will be welcomed by pragmatists and environmentalists alike. It is a passport to taking children out of the classroom and beyond into the real world: a real advocate for life-long learning.' – Liz Lakin, Primary Science Review

ISBN: 9780415321167

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 657g

256 pages