The Scientific Method - Working Scientifically Disciplinary Literacy for GCSE Science

AQA GCSE Science and Combined Science | The Scientific Method | Working Scientifically Disciplinary Literacy

Build the scientific literacy and tier-3 scientific vocabulary of your students with this disciplinary literacy task telling the story of how scientific theories are developed, tested and supported through the scientific method.

Designed for KS4 Science, this reading comprehension task introduces key concepts from the Working Scientifically section of the AQA specification that often slip through the net in schemes of work: Understand how scientific methods and theories develop over time (WS 1.1) and Peer Review (WS 1.6) .

Suitable for mixed ability year 10 and 11 students across Biology, Chemistry and Physics with an approximate reading age of 13-14 years old.

This is ideal for in-class activities, at the beginning of a topic for homework, or independent study, this resource will help students appreciate the evidence backing the theories that we take for granted as correct.

What’s included:

• Editable and Ready-to-print 350-word passage (.doc and .pdf)
• Glossary of key terms to support student understanding.
• 5 Reading comprehension questions plus a deeper thinking extension task
• Answer sheet for easy feedback
  
  Designed to help you to:
• Develop Literacy with an extended piece of reading and comprehension of tier-3 vocabulary
• Support learners with a glossary to help them understand key terms
• Build your scheme of work to cover a subtle and technical part of the specification
• Spark deeper thinking and develop student’s interest into how science works
• Develop scientific thinking and literacy in your students
  
  Ideal as a standalone lesson activity, a homework task, revision for GCSE or as a precursor to a lesson about models and theories.
  
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