Explorify for Inclusion Hub
Find out about how Explorify can be used to make science learning more inclusive. From this hub, you can explore a wealth of inclusive strategies detailing how expert teachers use Explorify successfully with children with SEND.
Working with expert teachers
At Explorify, we established a professional learning community including teacher-researchers from a range of settings. Some of our teachers worked in special schools, some worked in provision bases within mainstream schools, some were classroom teachers in a school with a learning provision base, and others worked in mainstream schools which had a particular focus on providing inclusive primary science. Illustrated with case studies of these practising teachers, this guidance is organised into four sections to help you focus on what is most relevant to you and your setting.
Each section includes top tips and clearly explained strategies for using Explorify to support inclusive primary science.
1. Choosing which Explorify activities to use
2. Establishing calm and focusing attention
3. Improving the quality of thinking and talking
4. Recording children’s responses
Fast track to the videos and case studies
If you don't have much time, you could start by watching the short videos featuring our expert teachers. In these, the teachers' strategies are explained alongside the key outcomes for children. Fuller details are given in the case studies.
| Case study 1 |
Using Zoom In, Zoom Outs to capture children's attention Click here to watch the film or read the full case study here. |
| Case study 2 |
Introducing the concept behind Odd One Out activities using concrete objects Click here to watch the film or read the full case study here. |
| Case study 3 |
Using Have You Ever? activities so that science starts with children’s experiences Click here to watch the film or read the full case study here. |
| Case study 4 |
Using frames with Odd One Out activities Click here to watch the film or read the full case study here. |
| Case study 5 |
Minimising verbal instructions, maximising thinking Click here to watch the film or read the full case study here. |
| Case study 6 |
Using thinking sheets to support answering in sentences Click here to watch the film or read the full case study here. |
| Case study 7 |
Giving children roles when discussing Odd One Outs to develop their social skills Click here to watch the film or read the full case study here. |
| Case study 8 |
Children compare their ideas to those of others using a same/different card Click here to watch the film or read the full case study here. |
| Case study 9 |
Capturing & recording children’s learning using active learning, Explorify big books, drawing & scribing There are two videos for this case study.To find out about using active learning and Explorify big books, click here. To find out about teaching children to use stem sentences alongside drawing and scribing, click here. All the strategies are explained fully in the case study here. |
Resources for Inclusion
Some of the teacher-researchers have developed resources which can support inclusion. These can be accessed, downloaded and in some case adapted here.
