Misconceptions in Primary Science

by Michael Allen

This essential book offers friendly support and practical advice for dealing with the common misconceptions encountered in the primary science classroom. Most pupils will arrive at the science lesson with previously formed ideas, based on prior reasoning or experience. However these ideas are often founded on common misconceptions, which if left unexplained can continue into adulthood. This handy book offers advice for teachers on how to recognise and correct such misconceptions. Key features include: Michael Allen describes over 100 common misconceptions and their potential origins, and then explains the correct principles. He suggests creative activities to help students to grasp the underlying scientific concepts and bring them alive in the classroom. This easy to navigate guide is grouped into three parts; life processes and living things; materials and their properties; and physical processes.

Genres: Science

234 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2010

Reviews

[dee · Rating 1 out of 5]

I picked a random date to mark when I started reading this. But it was assigned to me and my cohort at the start of the academic year and I have been ignoring it for most days to do pretty much everything else. I was reading it in small chunks because it was easier and more convenient to deal with.

This book is so annoyingly repetitive and finds the longest ways to say the simplest things. Instead of getting straight to the point, it decides to address misconceptions (and half of them are too dumb for anyone to even think of). This was a dumb read and I only rushed to finish reading it because the year was ending and I was running out of excuses to avoid it.

I would not recommend it to anyone. And the fact that my university thought this was a competent textbook is stupid.

[Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

23/08/18 Update: Forever useful!

Fantastic reference book.