Cutting-edge research and its impact on primary school children's scientific inquiry

By Alison J. Trew, Lucy Bird, Craig Early, Rebecca Ellis, Tim G. Harrison, Julia Nash, Katherine Pemberton, Paul Tyler, Dudley E. Shallcross

Issue 17 | Page 40 | Published Jul 2019

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Cutting-edge science research can provide incredible stimulus to primary school children's emergent ideas in science. Devising science investigations that are allied to this cutting-edge research helps to contextualise research.

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