Developing Science in the Primary Classroom
A reading response gives you the opportunity to reflect and build upon the main ideas introduced in the
materials for this course. For this assignment, please respond to the Session 7 reading, "Developing Science
in the Primary Classroom"Preview the document by Harlen and Jelly. Scan the reading and choose the section
that was most interesting to you. Make this section the topic of your Reading Response Paper. Each Reading
Response Paper should be approximately 750 words long, and have two parts:
Choose one major idea in the reading that is of meaning to you as a teacher and learner. Write a brief
summary of this one major idea. This should be no more than a half page. Title this section: “Summary.”
Write why this major idea has meaning to you, and how this idea influences your thinking and practice as a
teacher and learner.
Please submit your work as a Word document (.docx) or Google Doc. To submit your Reading Response
Paper, click "Submit Assignment" below. After submitting your work, you can view instructor feedback by
clicking "Submission Details" in the upper right corner of the screen.