Concept Cartoons

Introduction

The series of Concept Cartoon books and posters are already an established classroom tool and provide children with easy to understand yet challenging introductions to key science concepts.

The authors, Stuart Naylor and Brenda Keogh, are teacher-trainers at Manchester Metropolitan University and have worked extensively in researching their effective use in primary science teaching.

This unit introduces concept cartoons, describes the rationale behind them and invites you to watch two teachers making excellent use of them with lower and upper primary groups.

Objectives

• Discover what concept cartoons are and how they should be used
• Review your current teaching to identify how concept cartoons could improve dialogue with children
• Identify how and where they are best incorporated into a lesson

Preparation

Subject Leaders: Having worked through the unit online, you can create your own subject Workshop for this subject.

Evaluation

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