Practical suggestions for promoting science student actions to overcome social and environmental harms

By Dimitris Tsoubaris, Larry Bencze, Sheila Curtis, Majd Zouda

Issue 379 | Page 64 | Published Dec 2020

Download Resource
Login to see content The following document is not available for your current membership, please sign up here

Description

How a class of Year 9 (age 13-14) students engaged in a science project to address socio-scientific issues, undertaking actions of their choice.

socio-scientific issues

More from this issue

Should Earth be the last place to think about gravity?

A progression leading to understanding falling towards Earth is presented.

Journal Article

Reviews (open access)

Journal Article

Simple models for teaching and learning about the human withdrawal reflex

Teaching models for simulating nervous pathways related to the human withdrawal reflex that can engage students in active learning.

Journal Article
Show more

Related content

The use of plastics as a socio-scientific issue for developing critical thinking through argumentation with pre-service teachers

Written by authors based at the University of Malaga in Spain, this article looks at examining the use of plastics as a socio-scientific issue to...

Journal Article
Login to see content The following document is not available for your current membership, please sign up here

Antibiotics in livestock: introducing in-service teachers to the nature of contemporary socio-scientific controversies

An experiential activity organised around a contemporary socio-scientific controversy about the use of antibiotics in livestock that can be used...

Journal Article
Login to see content The following document is not available for your current membership, please sign up here