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Primary Science Matters is an organization developed to promote the teaching of Science in primary schools. Primary Science Matters offers consultancy services for primary schools, science enrichment days, professional development for teachers, and provides class laboratories, Science in a Box ®, which are designed for non specialist classrooms. The laboratories contain the equipment, teacher’s notes and student worksheets required to teach the science strands of the primary school syllabus. The Science in a Box ® laboratories have been designed to complement the ‘Science Out of a Box’ series of textbooks and the Australian Academy of Science Primary Connections project.
Primary Science Matters encourages schools to recognise that Science is in essence a hands-on subject where children apply the scientific method by carrying out experiments and investigations.
“Unless children are involved in their own investigations they are not doing science. Looking at books, watching demonstrations or screens is not science. Scientists are participators in the search to understand the world and its surroundings. Scientists learn to carry out reproducible experiments to test their ideas using a procedure called ‘the scientific method’. Everything starts from a question and, in this respect, children are natural scientists.”
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PRIMARY SCIENCE MATTERS
