These activities, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, help students to think about collecting and presenting information.

In this activity, students compile and edit a science book by collecting news items from print and internet sources. This allows students to think about the ways that...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity gives students experience of looking at a scientific or technological journal or magazine.

In looking at the journal, students consider:

* the name of the journal
* the subjects the journal deals with
* how the journal is...

These activities, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, help students to look at how to locate information using a reference database.

Students are presented with an article. They must note the central theme presented and when it was published. They are then challenged to find related articles...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps students to gain skills in finding reliable information from web-based resources.

Students are presented with an activity sheet that contains a series of specific questions. They need to find the answers using the internet. Students are...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity encourages students to listen actively to a presentation and take notes that will highlight and remind them of the key points. A guided activity helps students to evaluate how well they took in and noted the key pieces of information.

Students...

These activities, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, help students to gain more from presentations. This activity is the first stage in the process of developing the skills of listening and observing.

An expert is invited to give a talk to the students on a subject they have already studied...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps students to look at information from different points of view. While listening to a presentation, or watching a film, students are encouraged to consider what is being shown from a range of different perspectives, such as a scientist, sociologist...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps students to gain information from video presentations.

In this activity, students practise watching a scientific video that covers specific learning objectives. They watch the video twice. The first viewing is intended to convey a general...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity gives students the opportunity to practise quickly skim-reading a text to assess its usefulness.

A guided activity asks students to quickly browse through a scientific article and extract information such as its title, author and the subject of...

These activities, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, help students to look at a text, after an initial skim read, to judge if it is worth considering in more detail.

This ‘second glance’ activity serves several aims:
* It enables students to assess quickly what is the subject of the...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps students to consider how useful and informative article titles are.

During the activity, students:
* browse a scientific article.
* look for information such as the author, publication date and content of the abstract.
*...

These activities, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, help students to identify different sections in scientific texts which help to create an order and logical progression of the information conveyed. It encourages students to look at how the information is split into several principal types and...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps students to further examine scientific texts.

Texts can be characterised according to the type of information or knowledge they deal with. There are different kinds of texts and they can be classified and sorted in various ways. This...

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...

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,...