Introducing STEM Through Playful Learning in the Primary Classroom
October 16th (7pm)
Facilitator: Colm O'Callaghan
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.
- Fun with tennis balls - Exploring: Energy and Forces, Materials and Change
- Tinfoil boats and Pasta towers- Energy and Forces, Materials and Change and Living Things
- Rocket Mice- Energy and Forces, Materials and Change
- The Best Bubbles- Energy and Forces, Materials and Change, Environmental Awareness and Change
- 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