Free Online Course by FutureLearn on Teaching for Home Learning: Primary Science

Future Learn Platform is offering a free online course under the theme of "Teaching for Home Learning: Primary Science".

Course background:

Primary school science teaching often involves sparking students’ imagination through practical activities.

As schools close due to the coronavirus pandemic, primary science teachers must learn innovative new ways of teaching young students science using online and offline learning.

On this course, you’ll consider the new learning environment of your pupils, the role of parents in your teaching, and discover new science activities your pupils can do from home.

You’ll explore a variety of asynchronous teaching and learning tools, and have the chance to collaborate and discuss these new challenges with other teachers.

This course is intended for:

• This course is designed for primary teachers of pupils aged 5-11 years, who are supporting parents and pupils with learning from home due to the coronavirus pandemic.
• Science and STEM subject leaders and heads of primary schools may also find this course useful for devising their approach to home teaching.

Course duration:

3 hours per week for 2 weeks.

Course topics:

1. Setting expectations for time management and learning routines.
2. The roles of teachers and parents in remote learning.
3. Planning science learning activities for primary pupils at home.
4. Engaging and motivating primary pupils in remote learning.
5. Activities to support scientific enquiry at the primary level.

Course objectives:

By the end of this course learners will be able to:

1. Design a blended approach to teaching primary science, with offline and online activities to support pupils learning from home.
2. Develop your plans to work with parents to support pupils learning at home.
3. Evaluate a range of teaching strategies and tools, appropriate to your teaching context and teaching remotely.
4. Identify primary science activities that can be undertaken at home.

Course costs:

Learner can join this course for free and get access to it for 4 weeks.

Or upgrade this course for $44 and gets:

• Access to this course for as long as it’s on Future Learn.
• Access to this course’s tests as well as a print and digital Certificate of Achievement once he/she is eligible.

Or buy unlimited for $249.99 for one year and gets:

• Access to this course, and hundreds of other FutureLearn short courses and tests for a year.
• A printable digital Certificate of Achievement on all short courses once they are eligible.
• The freedom to keep access to any course he/she has achieved a digital Certificate of Achievement on, for as long as the course exists on Future Learn.
• The flexibility to complete own choice of short courses in learner’s own time within the year.

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