Issue 353

School Science Review 353

Editor Geoff Auty

Issue 353 | Published June 2014

Overview

June 2014 (Issue 353) - ASE's Secondary Science Quarterly Publication - School Science Review (SSR). ASE President, Professor Alice Roberts asks what makes us uniquely human? Other articles looks at School Biology Clubs, designing a bingo game to teach the periodic table, the teaching, learning and creativity (TLC) model for science and early-career development of science teachers.

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p.7 Science Notes: Interdisciplinary teaching of biology and physical education

p.10 Science Notes: Dilution of a weak acid

p.12 Science Notes: The Clubbers' Guide: School biology clubs

p.21 The Presidential Address 2014: Teaching and learning: the long view

p.27 Chicken eggs: which comes first the expected results or the science?

p.37 The development of a new practical activity: using microorganisms to model gas cycling

p.41 A mineral processing field course

p.47 A lesson plan to develop structured discussion of the benefits and disadvantages of selected plastics using the product-testing method

p.55 Design and implementation of a bingo game for teaching the periodic table

p.61 Effectiveness of demonstrations supported by ICT tools on upper secondary school students' attitudes towards the learning of physics

p.62 Supplementary Lesson Plans: Effectiveness of demonstrations supported by ICT tools on upper secondary school students' attitudes towards the learning of physics

p.73 The Structural Challenge: a simple design-based science activity to foster creativity among kinaesthetic learners

p.79 The Teaching, Learning and Creativity (TLC) model for science

p.85 Subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) courses for creating new chemistry and physics teachers: do they work?

p.95 The early-career development of science teachers from initial training onwards: the advantages of a multifaceted five-year programme

p.107 Shake it all about! Using earthquake science to enhance geology and physics teaching in the UK

p.115 Shape is as important as size: roundness and the science of measurement

p.123 Catching the tide: a review of tidal energy systems

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