ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the ‘doing of science’ including science investigations. Primary science does not involve formal experiments, but rather investigations or activities often based on the children’s own questions or ideas. Sometimes the activities are not investigative. Instead they are illustrative, to demonstrate a phenomenon or give an example of a particular way of working. But it is the practical science which sets out to answer a question by doing, by investigating for ourselves, with which this chapter is concerned.
