7 - Editorial

8 - SSR special issues list

9 - Letters

11 - Science notes

11 Designing an organism BruceForrest

12 Investigating the effect of acid on carbonates using a microscale technique
----Pauline Henderson and PeterSevers

13 Another look at the condensation bands produced by hydrogen’s squeaky pop Richard Jones

19 The ChemSketch windfall Cedric Mumford

24 An illustration of cladding on optical fibres Geoff Auty

29 Confidence intervals, the mean and Excel Jack Hoppé

31 - Science and disease: where life and death intersect Gill Samuels
------The Presidential Address delivered at the Association for Science Education Annual Meeting, University of
------Birmingham, January2003

39 - Editorial: Has ICT in science teaching come of age? Jerry Wellington, Special issue editor


41 - Enhancing teaching and learning of science through use of ICT: methods and materials Steve Lewis
------Materials and suggestions for using ICT as a tool to support teaching and learning both in and out of the classroom

53 - Effective use of ICT in secondary science: guidelines and case studies Val Oldham
----- How are schools currently making use of ICT to support science teaching and learning and what constitutes good
----- practice?

61 - Power Point: just another slideshow or a useful learning aid? John Parkinson and Peter Hollamby
----- Use of Power Point in the classroom is still in its infancy but used appropriately it has enormous potential as a
----- teaching aid


69 - Using Power Point effectively in science education: lessons from research and guidance for the
---- classroom Stephen Rowcliffe
----- Should PowerPoint be used in the secondary science classroom and, if so, how can it be used effectively to promote
----- learning?

77 - Effective use of the Internet in science teaching Dave Pickersgill
----- The Internet can be a catalyst for a more scientifically literate society

87 - A twenty-first century science laboratory David Brown and Erica Harper
----- Developing a science laboratory in which the best possible use can be made of ICT to enhance and support the
----- teaching of science

93 - Strategies form making effective use of ICT in science lessons Miriam Chaplin
----- Practical ideas for making more effective use of ICT to support teaching and learning in science

99 - Technology in science teacher education David Devraj Kumar
----- Discussion of selected information technology applications with insights for research

105 - Does ICT in science really work in the classroom? Part1,The individual teacher experience
------Laurence Rogers and Helen Finlayson
------ICT can make valuable contributions to the quality of teaching and learning in science, but teaching skills have
------an important role in translating the promise into reality

113 - Thinking frameworks for planning ICT in science lessons Leonard Newton and Laurence Rogers
------Ideas to help identify the contribution that ICT can make to science learning activities by considering roles of
------pupils and skill requirements

121 - Bringing newspaper reports into the classroom: citizenship and science education
------ Ruth Jarman and Billy McClune
------ The ASE–Wellcome Trust National Conference on Citizenship Education and Science at key stage 3 attracted over
------ 400 delegates. This article, presented at the meeting, gives a flavour of the event.

131 - Evaporation and boiling–trainee science teachers’ understanding Alan Goodwin
------ Is it reasonable, or even desirable, to expect science teachers to know all the answers?

142 - Reviews

153 - Science websearch

155 - Notes and News

157 - Index to Volume 84

159 - Index to advertisers

160 - Notes for contributors