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1 Do you want more engagement, understanding and skill development from your course? Look no further than upd8 it's evolved! Until now it was like a restaurant serving 'tasty desserts'. Now upd8 wikid offers 'the whole meal' at the same quality. So every science lesson, whatever the topic, gets students motivated to learn. Themed units set science in dozens of relevant contexts, and carefully crafted teaching sequences promote deep learning. If you subscribe now, you will be able to download all you need to start teaching the new KS3 course from September (See publication details). You can also use any existing textbook. Our course has been designed from first principles to: Make all science relevant and contemporary. Produce students confident with How Science Works skills. Raise students' achievement and understanding. Fit the National Strategy Framework (we waited until it was fixed). Adapt to national assessment arrangements when published. Dozens of teachers have been involved in writing the course, and units will have been trialled by hundreds of schools. Get the course, and join an expanding community who are re-inventing science. Find out about prices and ordering on: Contents The planning pack page 2 The teaching pack page 6 The assessment pack page 7 Upd8 wikid in action page 8 Publication details page 10 Since 2003 More than 1,000,000 downloads 27,000 teachers I can't imagine teaching without upd8 now, and I am a veteran of 26 years at the chalk face! Kay Gray, Hayward School Order now at 1

2 Planning pack A curriculum with clear goals What do you really want students to understand and do? Our learning goals are the 'Big Scientific Ideas'. These are the concepts and skills from the National Curriculum and Strategy Framework, and consistent with the Standards of many other countries. And here's the result of our 'backwards design' an science programme for understanding and motivation. Years 7 and 8 introduce all the Big Ideas. Some are in constant use across the units, while others are further developed in Year 9. wikid was designed by teachers and educators working 'backwards' from the curriculum goals. First we grouped the Big Ideas into coherent theme-based topics that last approximately 6 weeks. By having fewer units we give students more time to master skills and concepts. The topics are arranged for progression. We decided what the outcomes would look like (assessment) and produced a learning programme (activities) to deliver those goals. Wikid year 7 (11-12 year olds) Year 7 Forensics Cook! Extinction Electromancer A & E Alien Student role and mission A trainee forensic scientist, learning techniques for solving cases Become trainees to famous chefs Gordo and Jimella searching for perfect recipes A trainee reporter for Planet TV, alerting audiences to the plight of endangered species A Muggle magician mastering invisible forces A nurse treating emergency patients and babies A planet hunter looking for of extra-terrestrials Big Ideas Particle model Patterns in reactions Risk Working with Chemical reactions Energy transfer Scientific models Changing atmosphere Behaviour Variation Adaptation Communication/ collaboration Electricity Magnetism Energy Planning an investigation Cells Reproduction Implications of science Multicultural science Solar system Universe Forces Collecting/ presenting Framework (HSW) 1.2ei and 1.2eii 1.2fi and 1.2fii 1.1a1i, 1.1a1ii 1.1ci, 1.1cii,1.1a2i 1.2a, 1.1bi,1.1bii 1.2d1,1.2dii, 1.1a2ii QCA APP (draft) AF 4,5 AF 1 AF 3 AF 4 AF 2 AF 5 Framework (Content) 3.1, 3.3, 3.1, 3,2, , 2, , KS3 SoW 7e, 7g, 7h 7f, 7g, 7h 7c,7d, 8d 7i, 7j, 8j 7a, 7b, 8c 7i,7k,9j Personal, learning, thinking skills Self managers Creative thinkers Team workers/ Reflective learners enquirers Effective participators enquirers/reflective learners Order now at 2

4 How Science Works at the heart Upd8 wikid is a solution for HSW. Our approach is: teach, apply and progress. Teach: The Forensics unit focusses on 'Working with '. One week of lessons explicitly teaches about reliability through a plot about 'Cold Cases'. Apply: The rest of Forensics gives lots of opportunity for students to practice 'Working with '. Progress: It's such an important idea in science that the year 8 unit 'Live and Kicking' takes students further forward, and then it's revisited again in year 9 'Adolescence'. How Science Works infuses the whole approach to wikid units: even the characters in the story model it! 'Working with ' is consolidated in Extinction, where students use from real scientists to deduce what made mammoths go extinct. Themes and missions make science meaningful What's the point of learning this science? That's the question we asked ourselves while designing each unit. Which is why the science ideas are all embedded in human contexts that show who uses them or who discovered them. So in Forensics students master particles while learning practical techniques to solve cases. In Cook!, they learn about 'energy transfer' as an apprentice chef, making tastier food. Science gets it licked! What message are we communicating about science? That it's a great subject to continue with. We constructed our units around themes so students see purpose in their learning and experience it more as an adventure story than 'difficult' or 'dull' science. A narrative makes ideas easier to remember, more accessible and more interesting. It motivates students to tackle more complex ideas. Order now at 4

5 Ask the questions before answering Science is often back to-front 'answering questions before students have ever asked them'. Research suggests that students who experience 'inquiry' based approaches ar more motivated in science. In upd8 wikid, the teaching sequences promote a spirit of inquiry by using 'essential questions'. These are short, provocative questions that automatically lead students to uncover the Big Ideas. Sharing learning objectives using essential questions can be more powerful than displaying lists of outcomes. It helps students to take ownership of their learning. In the Forensics unit, the question that frames the sequence on Evaluating is 'What do you need to prove guilt?'. And while students investigate extinction, to learn about the changing atmosphere, the science question they are really answering is: 'Climate change: too much too quickly?' Order now at 5

6 Teaching and learning pack Activities organised into easy-to-use learning cycles Apply to unfamiliar, different contexts Deepen understanding Apply to similar contexts Hook students question Find out what students know Reveal misconceptions First-hand experience to build concept New assessment arrangements and courses demand understanding and skills not 'shopping lists' of facts. Like upd8, we obviously have a wide variety of active learning activities. What makes wikid different is that it gives you the resources to teach a topic from start to finish. You get coherent learning plans that maximise skill development and understanding. They are based around '7E's learning cycles to make them easy to use. Formalise concept, practice ds new, but in practice what it means is: Explore) comes before teacher instruction (Explain) More opportunities to apply ideas/skills, in similar contexts (Elaborate) and across different contexts (Extend). Otherwise, it's just a series of stages which model the best teaching. Of course, it comes complete with high quality PowerPoint and pdf teaching materials, student sheets and technicians' notes. Much science teaching is done by what's called 'direct instruction'. It works for some purposes, but it doesn't give students a lasting understanding they can apply in the future. Here, a constructivist approach works better. Students actively build ideas through experience and reflection. The 7E's learning framework makes this teaching style easy to implement. Order now at 6

7 Assessment pack upd8 wikid has been designed to match the Strategy Framework, and fit QCA's draft 'Assessing Pupil Progress' scheme. It's online and it evolves, so it will adapt as national assessment changes between now and Formative assessment How do you uncover what students know, and build a bridge to what you want them to know? The 7E learning cycle offers built-in formative assessment throughout: 'Elicit' tasks probe what students already know. For instance, in 'Mammoths Extinct', students as TV reporters are challenged to communicate 'what's in the air', so any misconceptions they may hold can be revealed and addressed. 'Evaluate' tasks check students' understanding of new ideas. Many give performance descriptors related to National Curriculum levels. The PowerPoint and pdf presentations are also full of 'assessment for learning' type questions. We make tasks arise naturally from the context, so that students perceive them as challenges to overcome. That makes them think more deeply, gives them a greater sense of achievement, and engages them in higher order thinking. Summative assessment How do you know if students really understand the Big Ideas? You need from a variety of assessment tasks. We all use topic tests, but they only provide part of the you need. upd8 wikid provides teachers with end of unit 'performance tasks' that are set in authentic contexts and often involve producing a product, like a presentation. The best test of understanding is what students can do with it in a real situation or know-how. We use performance tasks set in authentic contexts what students or scientists might do outside the classroom. These performances bring together concepts, facts and a whole range of scientific, personal and learning skills. In 'Mammoths extinct' students learn about the effect of changing climate on species. Their performance task is to decide where to build a 'Pleistocene park' for cloned mammoths. The idea is it can only be accomplished if students understand the idea. The task comes complete with performance descriptors, for effective assessment. Order now at 7

8 upd8 wikid in action Planning materials Forensics Sequences CSIphiles big idea Fake big idea Cold case big idea Abduction big idea Working Safely Particle Model Evaluating Patterns in reactions activities activities activities activities Real CSI Hazard symbols The unit is organised into 4 teaching sequences. Each teaches one Big Idea in the Scene setter The crime The guard Fake Trace Drinking on duty Death of rockstar Gone! Game of darts Just water? Whose footprints? Metal fizz Spattering of blood Powder fizz Frazzled fibres Here's an extract from the teacher's guide for Big Scientific Idea The particle model provides explanations for the different physical properties and behaviour of matter (Strategy Framework 3.1) Concepts What we want students to understand If we imagine substances are made up of tiny particles, then we can explain what happens in physical changes, including dissolving and changes of state. Pure substances can be identified by their physical properties, including melting and boiling points and solubility. Particles in liquids and gases can move because their particles are not joined together. We can separate a mixture of different substances because their particles are not joined together. (Building on previous understanding) solids and liquids can be separated, and can be changed physically. Facts What students need to remember Pure substances change state at known temperatures. The amount of a pure substance that dissolves in a certain amount of water is its solubility. Impurities affect the physical properties of a substance, including the temperature at which it changes state. Solids, liquids and gases are made up of tiny particles. When a substance changes state, the arrangement and movement of its particles change. The particles of the substances in a mixture are not joined together. Questions What students will inquire into Why do particles matter to forensic scientists? What tests help forensic scientists solve crimes? Is forensic enough to prove guilt? (whole unit) Do all substances have different physical properties? Skills What students need to know how to do Use boiling point and melting point data to identify pure substances. Compare solubility using a semi-quantitative scale. Plan a suitable method to compare solubility. Knowledge of the criteria for doing a fair test. Make and record observations of physical properties. Use the separation techniques of chromatography and distillation and filtration. 8

9 Teaching 'the Crime' activity Each individual activity in the 'Fake' sequence comes with its own Teachers guide which is the basis of a lesson plan Using the framework of the 7E learning cycle it takes you through the running order linking Stage/summary Time Running notes Opportunities Explore Let students try one technique. We need something coloured moving through the air. 25 Present using Forensics Fake 1.ppt Practical activity: See risk assessment notes in technician's guide.doc Students work in pairs. They are given a small piece of laminated white card which they must make a fingerprint onto. They then use brushes and charcoal powder to gently brush on the powder to show up the prints. Discuss with students how good this technique is. Show them slide 5... (continues) Practical Explain What's special about iodine? Particle model 10 Students should find that only iodine works. Show slide 6 on how the iodine can be used to show up the fingerprints on the frame. Slide 7 poses the question: Why does iodine work? Slide 8 Introduces the idea of particles... (continues) Elaborate Apply to a related context: sublimation 10 Demonstrate the technique. Use a piece of filter paper and ask members of the class to put fingerprints all over it. Put this in a large beaker which contains iodine... (continues) Demo The forensic scientist Dr Sherl challenges students to explain why they needed the idea of particles to find the fingerprints. Level 4: Describe what the arrangement and movement of particles in solid iodine looks like. Describe the arrangement and movement of particles in iodine gas (you can do this with diagrams). Level 6: As Level 5 plus: Use the ideas of particles and energy to explain why the solid iodine changed when it was heated. Level 5: As Level 4 plus: Explain why a lump of solid iodine did not show up the fingerprints, but why iodine moved to, and then stuck onto, the fingerprints when it was heated. Science words to use: Solid, gas, particles, sublimation. They absolutely love the idea of the topic and the practicals. Science is the best subject ever since we did the fingerprints! They're desperate for the next lesson. Sarah Woods, trialling Forensics 9

10 Publication details The first upd8 wikid units are about to be published. Why only now? Because we began development once the Strategy Framework was clear, in late Wikid is now being rolled out gradually so we can incorporate assessment changes. We have a top notch development team, including the upd8 editors and writers, and (for the first units) 11 partner schools. We use the technology of a 'wiki' website to build better plans and activities through wide collaboration. Trialling is a vital part of our process to ensure the materials are of the highest quality, and 150+ schools have trialled already. What you'll get when you subscribe The publishing timetable for the units is shown below. To enable you to start teaching upd8 wikid in September 2008, the first 6 week unit Forensics will be published at the beginning of July. The next two units (currently in trialling and revision), will be published in August. The final three year 7 units will be published in December. Units First Y7 unit: Forensics Publication date Early July Extinction, Cook (after trialling) Late August, 2008 Remaining Y7 units Final version after trials 19th December, 2008 First 3 units Y8 (after trialling) May June, 2009 Join the club! With upd8 wikid you'll: Join a large CPD community of teach who can answer questions and pro support and networking through the new upd8 wikid discussion forum. Get updated material published onlin during the year, like improved studen Access online links to media resource teacher created versions of activities t publish. The new curriculum gives us the opportunity to develop pupils' skills and not just stuff their heads with facts. I know upd8 has taken this onboard. A teacher on the TES staffroom forum upd8 wikid is brought to you by the Centre for Science Education and the Association for Science Education. It supports the STEM agenda: to create a modern, world class curriculum that inspires and challenges all learners. Order now at 10

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