ABSTRACT
The majority of primary school children work for most of their time in class bases with their own teachers so day-to-day organization can be flexible and varied. Science is essentially a practical way of finding out about the environment. Sometimes it may be appropriate for all members of a class to do science at the same time, but often children work in small groups, or even individually, at different times and for different lengths of time. Arrangement of furniture in classrooms must allow individual children and small groups to move freely from one working area to another and to supplies of resources. In addition to equipment and material stored in a central bank within the school building, resources essential for science exist in school grounds, the immediate neighbourhood and the countryside. Growing interest in the collections provided indoors will often encourage children to move out-of-doors in search of their own material.
