7 - Editorial

10 - Notes and news

14 - Science Year

16 - Letter

19 - Developing science materials for pupils with special educational needs for the Key Stage 3 Strategy Jill Bancroft
The principles applied in making science accessible to pupils with special educational needs are also pointers to good practice in teaching pupils of all abilities

29 - A scheme of work for special school science: the Cambridgeshire story Shan Oswald, Penny Brewer, Ros Cornwell, Jo Gant
Special School teachers, funded by the AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust, produce a scheme of work to suit their particular needs

41 - Steps and strides: planning for progress in science with pupils in special schools Liz Singleton
The Leeds Special School Science Coordinators Group has developed and trialled a model for assessing pupil progress both in science and in other areas of the curriculum

51 - The use of P-scales in science: a case study Lawrence Chapman
Modified performance criteria, or 'P-scales'¯, are found to provide enhanced support for children with special educational needs

65 - Putting differentiation into practice in secondary science lessons Andy Piggott
How do we match learning activities in science to pupils¡¯ differing needs? This article looks at various approaches and how they can be put into practice.

73 - The CASE approach for pupils with learning difficulties Shirley Simon
Applying Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education (CASE) theory to planning and teaching Thinking Science lessons for pupils with different needs

81 - Children with communication difficulties in mainstream science classrooms Wendy Wellington and Jerry Wellington
This article explores some of the problems that children with communication difficulties face in learning science, its vocabulary and its own particular language. Practical ideas and strategies are suggested for helping to overcome
these barriers in mainstream schools.

93 - Catering for dyslexia - how others benefit Stephen Rowcliffe
In each class of 30 pupils you teach, the chances are that there is at least one dyslexic pupil who may be struggling to achieve his or her potential in science

101 - Science and special needs at Mary Hare School for the Deaf Kevin Wright
How a school for deaf children successfully provides access to the science curriculum

107 - Inclusion policy and science teaching: a view from the USA David D. Kumar
What lessons about effective and beneficial inclusion can we learn from the experience in the USA?

113 - Developing effective methods of assessing Ideas and evidence Jonathan Osborne and Mary Ratcliffe
How can 'ideas and evidence' - the processes and practices of science - be assessed effectively, and how might the development of suitable assessment methods impact on teaching?

125 - Citizenship education and science at key stage 3 Peter Campbell
New resources, available on the ASE Science Year CD-ROM/website Can we; should we?, help science teachers meet the challenge of teaching citizenship

131 - Science notes

• A simple test for vitamin C Charles Hill
• Hydrogen pop condensation bands and the 'Danielle effect' Ross Morley and students
• The 'carrot and stick' experiment Geoff Auty
• Using MBL to verify Newton's second law and the impulse - momentum relationship with an arbitrary changing force Ricardo Trumper and Moshe Gelbman
• Urban geological trails: a tool for teaching key stage 3 earth sciences P. J. Murphy and E. Murphy

144 - Reviews

154 - Science websearch

157 - Index

160 - Brief notes for contributors

160 - Index to advertisers