Can an early-years approach to investigating ‘how things work’ improve our science teaching?

By Jayne Marsh

Issue 155 | Page 16 | Published Nov 2018

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Jayne Marsh believes that adopting an early-years child-led teaching style could benefit science teaching with older primary children.

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