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A range of scientific societies have banded together to recommend to the government more enlightened ways of teaching science to children aged three to 11 .
Chemists have suggested licking ice-lollies to understand how temperatures change and how heating and cooling works, while physicists say that using more music in the classroom can “help teach basic concepts such as pitch and volume”.
Michael Rosen says the curriculum is stuffed with the need to impart knowledge.
There wasn’t time for my now 19-year-old to handle a bit of ore before learning’ how to extract metal from rock.
Teachers and teacher associations have been sounding alarms about this ever since Michael Gove gave us the knowledge-rich curriculum and the preposterous idea that all pupils can raise their grades above average.
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