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Science teacher, Niamh Barry, has created a variety of student led inquiry based activities linked to learning outcomes across the unifying strand, Nature of science, and the four contextual strands: Physical world, Chemical world, Biological world and Earth and Space. The activities aim to promote engagement and thinking about how science works; carrying out investigations, communicating in science, and the role and contribution of science and scientists to society.

Niamh's activities cleverly vary from teachers co-creating success criteria with students, having peer/self assessment elements, teacher set success criteria given, metacognition self reflection elements, and elements that motivate students.

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Activities: To organise and communicate their research and investigative findings in a variety of ways fit for purpose and audience, using relevant scientific terminology and representations.

Activities: To produce and select data (qualitatively/quantitatively), critically analyse data to identify patterns and relationships, identify anomalous observations, draw and justify conclusions

Activities: To design, plan and conduct investigations; explain how reliability, accuracy, precision, fairness, safety, ethics, and selection of suitable equipment have been considered.

Activities: To research and present information on the contribution that scientists make to scientific discovery and invention, and its impact on society.

Activities: To appreciate the role of science in society; and its personal, social and global importance; and how society influences scientific research.

Activities: To review and reflect on the skills and thinking used in carrying out  investigations, and apply their learning and skills to solving problems in unfamiliar contexts.

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