Table of Contents

Part I Understanding and Science: Why and What? 1.1 Why Understand? 1.2 Some Kinds of Understanding in Science 1.3 Getting to Know the Understandings you will Support 1.4 Scientific Language 1.5 Cumulative Summary Part II Helping Children Understand: Guiding Thought 2.1 Guiding Thought 2.2 Science Talk and Practical Activity 2.3 Changing Minds 2.4 Pressing for Understanding 2.5 Cumulative Summary Part III Doing More for Understanding 3.1 Building Bridges 3.2 Science Talk and Scaffolding 3.3 Science Talk and Modelling Thinking 3.4 Science Talk and Predicting 3.5 Science Talk and Inanimate Teachers 3.6 Science Talk and Stories 3.7 Science Talk and Games 3.8 Science Talk and Graphic Organisers 3.9 Cumulative Summary Part IV Conversations in Science 4.1 Conversations in Science 4.2 Conversations From Events 4.3 Conversations From Children's Questions 4.4 Conversations from Artifacts 4.5 Conversations from Pictures 4.6 Conversations from Stories and Poems 4.7 Who Takes the Initiative? 4.5 Cumulative Summary

About the Author

Douglas Newton is Director of Teaching for Understanding at the University of Newcastle. He has written many books on science education, including co-authoring Coordinating Science Across the Primary School (1969 saes since 1998: £18321 revenue)