Resources

Skill 3.5 Making Sense of Text: In Your Own Way

This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, challenges students to read a piece of text and then represent it in the way that best helps them to remember it. In doing so, students are encouraged to: * locate the themes and keywords within an article * summarise the key pieces of information *...

Skill 3.6 Going Beyond an Article: Asking Key Questions

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps students to be able to:

* identify the underlying scientific principles that relate to a brief article
* formulate questions about the article
* explain key pieces of information presented in the article.

In the activity...

Skill 3.7 Reading and Sharing

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity requires students to actively read an article, produce a summary and review their learning with a partner.

The activity emphasises the effectiveness of teaching a concept to someone else as a learning tool. It helps students to practice...

Skill 3.8 Scientific Foldover Game

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity is based on the foldover game, where one person draws a head, folds the paper, the next draws a body and so on. The variation is that this exercise is based around the amount remembered after reading a paper from a scientific journal. On each paper...

Skill 3.9 Using Visuals: Krypton Factor Style

This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, encourages students to see the value of visual representations of ideas. Students take turns to describe a visual to see if their partner can recreate the same visual using the description alone. The activity helps the students to: * communicate...

Skill 4.1 Categorising Visual Representations

These activities, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, help students to categorise different types of visual representations.

Students are given a large number of different visual representations dealing with a range of scientific subjects. Through a 'happy families-style' card-game, students...

Skill 4.1 Visual Representations

This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, introduces students to different types of visual representation that they may meet in their advanced science course. Students interpret the information contained in the visuals and discuss how different visual representations are linked. They get...

Skill 4.10 Describing Graphs

These activities, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, have students write down what they have learned and understood from a graph about life expectancy and mortality. First in the form of statements and then in a narrative form. Students then move on to look at the different components of the graph,...