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Dear Teacher,
Welcome to the Small Science teacher resources page!
Over the past two years, we have been putting together resources for teachers who are implementing Small Science. We have been observing Small Science classrooms, interacting with teachers, doing and reflecting on some of the Small Science activities, conducting teacher workshops and, through such experiences, we and our colleagues have been developing teacher resource material.
Small Science is different in that it is not a 'finished' curriculum but one that is evolving and growing through process of self-reflection and critique. To carry out this critique, we need you, the teacher, to be in continuous dialogue with us.
Do read some of the blogs in View from the Classroom. If your experiences resonate with, or are different from, our reflections on the Small Science classrooms we have seen, if you have some interesting classroom anecdotes to share, or other queries, do join and post to our mailing list, http://gnowledge.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smallscience. We will compile all questions and answer them in the FAQ section- which may serve as a resource for other teachers as well.
Please also visit http://coglab.hbcse.tifr.res.in/teacher-resources to access our growing collection of Multimedia resources that enhance the audio / visual possibilities of various topics in Small Science. The website is constantly being updated; so please do keep visiting.
Teaching Small Science effectively requires the teacher to understand students' thinking and structure their lessons to develop students' spirit of inquiry. If you are curious, as a self-reflective teacher, to get an understanding of what this entails, please do try out Exploring young minds, an activity sheet that will get you thinking about how students think.
As we say always, Small Science is not to be just read, it is to be done and experienced. Do write in with your own experiences.
Small Science Support team
<smallscisupport@hbcse.tifr.res.in>
November, 2010
