It's Not Fair or Is It? Revised Second Edition

By Alex Sinclair, Liz Lawrence, David Allen

Covering five types of science enquiry, this book aims to support primary teachers in their teaching and enable children to consolidate their science skills. It will help you to broaden the range of science enquiries that your children experience and will assist your planning. It is a fantastic addition for teachers and trainees. Subject leaders will also find this a great resource to develop their science curriculum, pedagogy and understanding of science enquiry.

Key areas addressed in this new edition:

revised definitions of the enquiry typesthe explicit links made between each science enquiry and the conceptual knowledge that children learn or applyexamples of science enquiry questions and whole enquiries used to exemplify each enquiry type

The types of science enquiry cover in this book are:

Observation over time enquiriesIdentification and classification enquiriesComparative and fair test enquiriesPattern seeking enquiriesResearch enquiries

Each of these chapters contains:

definitions of and information about that type of enquirya science skills progression grid to support planningexamples of how to teach children to answer specific enquiry questions, from age 4 to the end of primary, including possible pupil outcomesa list of other suggested science enquiry questions

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915615364
• ISBN13: 9781915615367
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Millgate Publishing
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.7" x 0.5" x 8.3"