Scientific content &
scientific manner
One of the key classroom activities here at Harrow Shenzhen is in students making connections, empowering them with the methodology and procedural development for discovery not just lecturing and giving content.
Science demands versatile teachers with inspirational and imaginative approaches to bring science in to life. Our teachers are skilled in bringing the best out of our young scientists to form the foundation for examinable content in senior years.
Class activities &
learning method
Scientific content is important, but even with highly knowledgeable theoretical understanding students can struggle with working in a scientific manner. Hence, within a diverse and deep framework of content working scientifically is a key focus in the preparation period.
We explicitly teach the development of skills students need to become adept in asking their own questions, planning different types of scientific inquiry, taking measurements with range of equipment, recording, manipulating and interpreting data, researching and referencing key ideas.
Students need to recognize, describe, use and apply key scientific ideas to explain abstract phenomena even when they appear in unfamiliar contexts, discussing and using the vernacular of scientific approach assists students in working scientifically.
Teachers capitalize on chances in any lesson to encourage pupils to reflect, however briefly, on the evidence that supports scientific interpretations. Pupils draw conclusions which match the data they have collected and begin to use this evidence to support further predictions.
They know that scientists have combined evidence from observation and measurement with creative thinking to suggest new ideas and explanations for phenomena.
