Abstract
Many UK secondary schools (ages 11-18) host Open Days for pupils in their final year of primary school education (age 10). At these events science teachers try, through the judicious use of a select number of practical tasks, to portray science as being a fun, exciting and essentially a „hands on‟ activity. Whilst this approach generates short-term situational interest amongst pupils it is ultimately an unrealistic, and arguably unsustainable, image of science.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 119-122 |
| Journal | School Science Review |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue number | 324 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |