School Science Review 359 Literacy and Learning

Editor Geoff Auty

Issue 359 | Published December 2015

Overview

December 2015 (Issue 359) In this issue guest editors, Ruth Jarman and Billy McClune, collect together the many ways to promote literacy in science from multimodal strategies to developing critical reading skills.

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Contents

p.7 Science Note: Titration curve of ethanedioic acid (oxalic acid) with sodium hydroxide
p.8 Science Note: The photoelectric effect made easy
p.10 Science Note: Blind trials and fun with coat hangers!
p.13 Theme editorial: Science and literacy in symbiosis
p.15 Improving scientific literacy through multimodal communication: strategies, benefits and challenges
p.21 Learning to read with a critical eye: cultivating discerning readers of media reports with a science component
p.30 Writing about science for publication
p.39 Brochures, posters, and Foldables: using multimodal representations in middle school science
p.46 The Media Conference Project: developing students' listening, talking, reading and writing skills through their production of science news reports
p.55 Doing with ideas: the role of talk in effective practical work in science
p.61 Talking and thinking using concept cartoons: what have we learnt?
p.68 The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize
p.75 Sciku: writing science in haiku
p.81 Henry Moseley (1887 1915): a sad loss to the world of science
p.89 The place of fieldwork in science qualifications
p.97 Towards big ideas of science education
p.109 Integrating science, mathematics and technology in middle grades
p.117 Studying the effectiveness of strategies for learning science and technology
p.121 Mr Smith and the animals wish you all very happy holidays

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