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Teaching Primary Earth Science
Written by members of the Primary Committee for you (hard-working and hard-pressed Primary teachers!) and now in its 14th year of publication. Each quarterly issue includes ideas, activities and information on Earth science topics based on National Curriculum Science and Geography.
Past issues have covered:
| Year | Issue Number |
Themes |
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| 1993 | 1 | Fossils |
| 2 | Rocks | |
| 3 | Soil | |
| 4 | Mountain Building | |
| 1994 | 5 | Using Rocks |
| 6 | Water | |
| 7 | Earth in Space | |
| 8 | Weathering and Erosion | |
| 1995 | 9 | Minerals |
| 10 | Out and About 1 | |
| 11 | The Seasons | |
| 12 | Out and About 2 | |
| 1996 | 13 | Fossil Fuels 1 |
| 14 | KS1/KS2 Progression in Earth Science Topics | |
| 15 | Fossil Fuels 2 | |
| 16 | Rivers | |
| 1997 | 17 | Resourcing Earth Science Work |
| 18 | Edible Earth Science 1 | |
| 19 | Earth Science for Early Years | |
| 20 | Out and About 3 | |
| 1998 | 21 | Edible Earth Science 2 |
| 22 | Putting Fossils into the National Curriculum | |
| 23 | The Water Cycle | |
| 24 | Out and About 4 | |
| 1999 | 25 | Out and About 5 |
| 26 | Geopuzzles 1 | |
| 27 | Groundwater (Water Cycle 2) | |
| 28 | IT to the Aid of Earth Science | |
| 2000 | 29 | Hanson East Mendip Study Centre, Somerset |
| 30 | The National Stone Centre, Derbyshire | |
| 31 | The Natural History Museum, London | |
| 32 | Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh | |
| 2001 | 33 | Pollution - Dirty Water (Water Cycle 3) |
| 34 | Major Environmental Impacts 1 - from Space | |
| 35 | Major Environmental Impacts 2 - Volcanoes | |
| 36 | Geopuzzles 2 | |
| 2002 | 37 | Organising Fieldwork |
| 38 | Spotlight on Limestones and Their Uses | |
| 39 | Major Environmental Impacts 3 - Rivers | |
| 40 | Major Environmental Impacts 4 - Landfill Waste | |
| 2003 | 41 | Poetry on the Rocks |
| 42 | Drama - On the Rocks | |
| 43 | Geological Time | |
| 44 | Non-Core on the Rocks | |
| 2004 | 45 | Shadow of a Doubt |
| 46 | A Sense of Time | |
| 47 | Obtaining and Storing Resources | |
| 48 | Edible Earth Science 3 | |
| 2005 | 49 | Tracks and Trails |
| 50 | Going Places 1 | |
| 51 | Going Places 2 | |
| 52 | Going Places 3 | |
| 2006 | 53 | Catastrophic Teaching |
| 54 | At Home with Earth Science | |
| 55 | At School with Earth Science | |
| 56 | Building Stone Walks | |
| 2007 | 57 | School Clubs |
| 58 | Recycling in Schools | |
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For further information about Primary activities, contact:
Peter York
346 Middlewood Road North
Oughtibridge
Sheffield
S35 0HF
E-mail: py@webtribe.net
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PEST back issues for 2006 can be obtained by ESTA members by going to the magazine page.
Once again this has been a very busy year for the Primary Committee, involving the production of the four issues of Teaching Primary Earth Science (PEST) combined with revising and facilitating our workshop programme for conferences.
Three issues of PEST have already been produced, with the fourth to be completed. The theme for this year has related to ideas for use during The Year of Planet Earth (2008). The topics have been - 57 School Clubs – Extra Curricular Earth Science activities [Stewart Taylor]; 58 Recycling – Hints for teaching about recycling in school and 59 Eco Status Schools [both by Tracy Atkinson, Geoff Selby-Sly and Diane Payne]; 60 will be Environmental Systems. I have continued to edit PEST this year, assisted by members of the primary team, particularly John Reynolds and Tracy Atkinson. This method of editing continues to work well.
There have been highs and lows relating to conference workshops! At the ASE conference in Birmingham, the altered booked workshop was not well supported. Moving the workshop to the Saturday the previous year had shown an improvement, however we believe the longer length of this years’ may have been a factor, and we shall therefore shorten it for January 2008. As usual the primary workshops ran alongside the secondary ones organised by Chris King and the Keele-based Earth Science Education Unit (ESEU). The UK Offshore Operators’ Association sponsored us, thanks to Annette Thomas. In complete contrast, at the Geographical Association Conference in Derby, our workshop was fully booked and we had to turn people away. We received excellent feedback, and an article is being written for the GA Magazine Primary Geography. We have again offered to do a similar session next year. We ran our usual workshops at last years’ ESTA conference in Bristol, which were fairly well attended and very well received.
All members of the team have been active in promoting and helping with Earth Science in the Primary curriculum in their various areas. Pete York continues to maintain the database. John Reynolds continues to be very involved in many UKRIGS activities, notably their Education Project, writing field teaching materials for non-specialist teachers, assisted by various members of the primary committee. I have continued to be involved in the Geographical Association on their Early years and primary committee (EY & PC) and also on their local group committee. Their physical geography working group is now in existence and is starting to work at investigating needs and producing resources. I have represented both ESTA Primary group and the GA EY & PC on this working group.
Work has started on our third work pack this time related to water, rivers and coastlines and thus the Geography part of the Curriculum. This is being supported by some of the funding recently awarded by PESGB to ESTA.
We will be involved in developing Primary workshops for the expanding ESEU, now that it has secured funding for a further 5 years.
The usual venue for the primary committee continues to be the National Stone Centre, Wirksworth, thanks to our host Ian Thomas.
Anyone who has read this and would like to become involved, in however small a way, from e mail contact such as proof reading a PEST or contributing ideas, to presenting one of our workshops; contributing as much or as little time as you would like; please contact us.
Niki Whitburn August 2007
