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This activity, from the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, helps students to develop their skills in assessing information. Students consider what they need to look for in an information source to be sure that it is reliable. Students consider the peer review process of a professional journal and compare this...
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity focuses on using reference books in a library. It provides practice in locating information using a range of reference materials.
The students are challenged to find information from encyclopaedia and dictionaries as well as using a range of...
This activity, from the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, helps students to examine the claims to truthfulness of statements of different kinds. The aim is to become more critical of the use of language and to develop a constructive scepticism when assessing primary and secondary information. Students are given...
These activities, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, help students to look at reference books and see if they contain suitable information.
Students are required to research a particular science topic and consider the sources of information they find. This includes looking at features such as...
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity gives students practise in looking at the features of a reference book that will help them find information.
Students are challenged to consider the features that are useful when looking for information. They look at features such as the:
...Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, in this activity students look at surveys as an important method of gathering and retrieving information. The activity allows students to evaluate the process of collecting data from short interviews with their peers. It consists of a speed survey game, which is...
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...
These materials, from the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, help students to consider the appropriate approach when communicating ideas and information to particular audiences. The activities encourage students to: * analyse information and resources for their level of difficulty, the audience, its reliability...
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...
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, in this activity students identify potentially misleading statistics and explain some of the issues involved in using data to inform policy making.
The activity 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 is a game which emphasises the specific nature of scientific vocabulary. The object of the game is to collect three cards with the same word. These must include the correct scientific definition, a correct but non-scientific definition and a...
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, in this activity students study a short podcast from the National Geographic. The clip is intended to encourage members of the public to replace standard light bulbs with low-energy light bulbs. It presents science themes in a way that gets a message across. The...
Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, the resources in this section help students to develop their skills of information retrieval. Activities relate to five aspects of information retrieval:
* methods of information storage and retrieval
* the...