New project to explore inquiry skills
Southampton Education School has secured funding from the AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust to run a primary science research project.
Entitled Developing Inquiry Skills Across the Curriculum: a project with the Mary Rose Trust , the University of Southampton is collaborating with primary and junior schools in Southampton and The Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth .
The project aims to enable teachers to explore generic inquiry approaches and map their findings to the new primary curriculum; it will support the identification and development of cross-curricular inquiry skills, as well as developing approaches and practices to support science enquiry through consolidation across a range of curriculum areas.
Teachers from the schools involved will work with researchers from the University, including
Dr Marcus Grace
,
Dr Janice Griffiths
,
Colin Stevens
and with the Education Team at the Mary Rose Trust, facilitated by colleagues from the
Mathematics and Science Learning Centre
.
The project will run from June 2013 to October 2014.