Develop pupils’ skills to ask - investigate - share

Great Science Skills are a collection of direct-to-the-classroom videos that teachers can play and pause at the start or during a lesson.

Focused on each aspect of the working scientifically cycle, these videos are narrated by Dr Jon Chippindall, and model a science skill. Each inspires pupils to practise and apply the skill related to pupils’ own scientific enquiries.

Teacher notes accompany each video providing relevant information to inform their use, and to share and discussion with other teachers and educators in your organisation

Great Skills Starter 7-11 videos focus on:

• planning enquiries

• measuring accurately

• interpreting data, and

• drawing conclusions.

Click, play and pause the videos to introduce and discuss the information shared about each skill.

PLANNING ENQUIRIES
Thinking about the different questions and enquiry types.

A really creative and imaginative time to look, listen and explore pupils’ wonderings, world around them and questions that arise.

Perfect opportunity to also download the Enquiry Poster Collection.

MEASURING ACCURATELY
Making accurate and precise measurements when gathering evidence.  

Accuracy, being systematic and reflective all underpin skilful gathering high quality evidence and make it much easier to draw conclusions to scientific questions. Choosing the appropriate measuring device is a key part of the process.

INTERPRETING DATA
Spotting trends, comparing data and identifying causal relationships.

Using scatter graphs, bar charts and line graphs to analyse the data gathered in enquiries are integral to the scientific process. Honing the skills of using graphs and charts to analyse and interpret data that is gathered in science investigations is a wonderful way to expose pattens and relationships.

DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
Making connections between the question and the data collected.

Pupils learn different ways to analyse and interpret their findings, supporting them to develop a conclusion. The GSSfS Toolkit - Focus Frames and Conclusion Creator are ideal to support this activity.