ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the framework of the National Curriculum for Science can be adapted in ways which make it relevant for pupils with a range of learning difficulties. Although some pupils may well experience difficulties in fully understanding the concepts or developing the skills involved in scientific tasks, there are many good reasons for including science activities in their curriculum. The National Curriculum for Science outlines the areas of science which provide a broad and balanced minimum entitlement. Science activities often involve an element of sharing activities or ideas. Pupils should have opportunities to observe a wide variety of living things. Pupils should explore how pushes and pulls can make things move, speed up, swerve and change shape. Pupils can mix their own colours from either liquid or powder paints. Many of the problems experienced when assessing pupils' scientific achievement occur at the planning stage.
