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Peer reviewed
Direct linkProctor, Lena – Primary Science, 2011
Some of the best learning experiences can arise incidentally and unexpectedly from an event or good idea. This happened at the author's school, Laycock Primary in West Yorkshire, in April and May 2010. Children and staff returned from the Easter holidays to discover that a pair of blue tits had built their nest in a bird box on a wall in the…
Descriptors: Animals, Holidays, School Community Relationship, Science Education
Rogers, Jenny – Primary Science Review, 2006
The national curriculum in Japan is termed the Course of Study, the revised version of which was implemented in 2000 for kindergarten, or nursery schools, and since 2002 for elementary or primary schools. The Course of Study for Science specifies content only in broad terms, placing the greatest emphasis on process, learning to learn and…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
Ellis-Tipton, John – Primary Science Review, 2006
Buntingsdale Infant School in Shropshire has installed an environmentally friendly heating system. The school's heating system is called a Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP). Buntingsdale, a three-classroom infant school in a wooden demountable building, is one of the first schools in Britain to use this system. The system is fully automatic: it is…
Descriptors: Energy Conservation, Energy Management, Heat, Kindergarten
Hedges, Helen – Primary Science Review, 2005
The New Zealand early childhood curriculum, "Te Whariki", views learning as occurring through reciprocal and responsive relationships with people, places and things. Relationships and communication are central to young children's learning. Communication, or dialogue, is in fact likely to be young children's principal learning mechanism before they…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
