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Asked by xxgracexx to Chia-Yu, Helen, Matthew, Matt H, Rhod on 19 Jun 2013.
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Chia-Yu Lin answered on 19 Jun 2013:
If you are interested in this event, and found this is more useful than learning science from school, then there should be room for improvement.
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Matt Carnie answered on 19 Jun 2013:
I haven’t been to school for 14 years! It seems that now students do less practical work in science classes than when I was at school. If that’s true, then it is a shame as doing experiments was my favourite at school. Especially the ones where things go BANG!! or catch on fire.
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Helen Pritchard-Smith answered on 24 Jun 2013:
Sometimes, i think it depends on the funding or money available to teachers. I think teachers have more work than they can reasonably do so they can’t make it as exciting as they would like due to lack of time for planning and money to execute the experiment/demonstration.
I do a lot of A Level tuition and there does seem to be a tendency to stick to the syllabus due to a lack of time which prevents you being able to find out about interesting applications of the subject you are learning. Often expanding on the syllabus helps you learn and stay interested. As i hope this scheme has shown, there is a lot more to science than what you learn in school.
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xxgracexx commented on :
Thank you very much! I was interested to know if you agreed with the balance between practical and theory.
Helen commented on :
i think learning the theory then doing a practical where you have to use the theory you have learnt is the best way to lodge it into your brain. Another way is explaining it to someone else, the best way to be certain you know something is to teach one of your peers.
curlybrace commented on :
Our school does a load of practical… Often it’s really good, and then we do some theoretical work too.