Science Across the World : A Business and Enterprise Venture

Why join?

• Students and teachers develop contacts and links with other schools in different parts of the world
  
  
• Students are interested and motivated by global science issues and communicating with other young people from different countries and cultures
  
  
• Students look at the wider aspects of science around issues of diet and health, genetics, the environment and energy use
  
  
• Students develop Key Skills in Communication, ICT, Working with others and Problem Solving
  
  
• Students develop Thinking Skills in Reasoning, Enquiry, Creative thinking and Evaluation
  
  
• Teachers can develop different pedagogic skills and extend science into cross curricular activities, including citizenship and sustainable development education
  

 What research has revealed...

Teachers like to work with Science Across the World for:

• contacts with other schools in different countries
• student interest and motivation
• development of Key Skills in Communication, ICT, Working with others, Problem Solving
• development of Thinking Skills in Reasoning, Enquiry, Creative thinking and Evaluation
• language learning value
• usefulness of the topic/issue
• source of different pedagogic skills

Teachers like to work with Science Across the World for developing constructive ICT ‘information communications technologies’ activities such as:

• searching for schools through the Science Across the World online database
• completing and sending Exchange Forms via email
• creating school websites related to the Exchange Form
• creating and using spreadsheets
• word processing
• researching using topic data and hotlinks

Students benefit from working with Science Across the World:

• by being involved in the wider aspects of science
• by making links with other countries
• by using foreign languages and ICT
• by developing their Key Skills and Thinking Skills
• by extending science into cross curricular activities, including citizenship and sustainable development education

What topics are available? 

Most of the topics feature several types of activity.

Gathering information at home

• Chemistry in our Lives
• Domestic Waste
• Drinking Water
• Eating and Drinking Around the World
• Keeping Healthy
• Talking about Genetics Around the World
• What do you eat?

Practical investigations

• Acid Rain
• Chemistry in our Lives

Collecting and displaying data

• Eating and Drinking Around the World
• Keeping Healthy
• What do you eat?

Making a survey

• Keeping Healthy
• Talking about Genetics Around the World

Field work

• Biodiversity Around Us
• Plants Topics

Finding out what happens in the local community or environment

• Domestic Waste
• Plants Topics
• Renewable Energy
• Talking about Genetics Around the World

Interviews

• Chemistry in our Lives
• Talking about Genetics Around the World

Studying a science issue in the media

• Domestic Waste
• Global Warming
• Talking about Genetics Around the World

Research using the internet

• Biodiversity Around Us
• Global Warming
• Renewable Energy
• Talking about Genetics Around the World

Gathering information from a variety of secondary sources

• Acid Rain
• Chemistry in our Lives
• Drinking Water
• Renewable Energy
• Talking about Genetics Around the World

Decision-making or action-planning

• Biodiversity Around Us
• Plants Topics
• Global Warming