How can science and technology activities be made engaging and relevant in primary education? Beth Gibbs
How can science and technology activities be made engaging and relevant in primary education? During a university seminar I took part in a volcano experiment where we used bicarbonate soda and vinegar and added them together to simulate a volcano eruption. I believe activities like this are a really good, practical way to involve children and engage them. We discussed how this activity could be developed further to become a class project for example; if we did this activity with children we could ask the children to create their own volcano rather than using a plastic model. Also we could ask the children to predict what they thought would happen by mixing these two properties together and identify whether adding more or less vinegar or bicarbonate soda would change the outcome. Projects like this promote holistic learning as they develop there mathematics, writing, science and art and design. This coincides with Graham Donaldson’s idea of what the Welsh curriculum should promote a...
