Professional Documents
Culture Documents
of school science
John Holman
National Science Learning Centre
Improving Practical Work in Science
Sputnik 1, Launched by USSR,
October 1957
Practical work survey
• Post 16 28%
What factors hinder you from
undertaking practical work?
•Curriculum pressure i.e. curriculum too full (69%)
•Time to plan and prepare beforehand and time to carry out the work
(21%)
•Clear purpose for the practical, strong links to theory and relevance to
the topic or curriculum (20%)
What additional support would make
your practical work more effective?
Teacher Respondent
Professional development in
practical work
Available at:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/Millar_draft
paper_Jun_04.pdf
Science without practical work
is like literature without books
Science Learning Centres survey on
dissection
•Published Summer 2009