Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps students to further examine scientific texts.

Texts can be characterised according to the type of information or knowledge they deal with. There are different kinds of texts and they can be classified and sorted in various ways. This...

This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, challenges students to read a piece of text and then represent it in the way that best helps them to remember it. In doing so, students are encouraged to: * locate the themes and keywords within an article * summarise the key pieces of information *...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps students to be able to:

* identify the underlying scientific principles that relate to a brief article
* formulate questions about the article
* explain key pieces of information presented in the article.

In the activity...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity requires students to actively read an article, produce a summary and review their learning with a partner.

The activity emphasises the effectiveness of teaching a concept to someone else as a learning tool. It helps students to practice...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity is based on the foldover game, where one person draws a head, folds the paper, the next draws a body and so on. The variation is that this exercise is based around the amount remembered after reading a paper from a scientific journal. On each paper...

This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, encourages students to see the value of visual representations of ideas. Students take turns to describe a visual to see if their partner can recreate the same visual using the description alone. The activity helps the students to: * communicate...

These activities, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, help students to categorise different types of visual representations.

Students are given a large number of different visual representations dealing with a range of scientific subjects. Through a 'happy families-style' card-game, students...

This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, introduces students to different types of visual representation that they may meet in their advanced science course. Students interpret the information contained in the visuals and discuss how different visual representations are linked. They get...

These activities, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, have students write down what they have learned and understood from a graph about life expectancy and mortality. First in the form of statements and then in a narrative form. Students then move on to look at the different components of the graph,...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps students to link information in graphs with questions that could be asked about the data.

Students are presented with a series of graphs and a series of questions. Their task is to match the questions to the graphs. Different activities...

These activities, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, challenge students to look at tabulated data and produce a suitable graph to emphasise the key findings of the data. Tables of information are supplied on different topics including human physiology, atmospheric composition on different planets and...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity is designed to have students study a visual representation in detail. Students are asked to look consider components that include:
* the title
* its content
* information the students have gathered from the visual
*...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity gives students a more detailed look at how specific objects can be represented in different ways, either by diagrams or by different scientific imaging techniques. Students compare different visuals of the same object and understand differences in the...

This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, introduces students to the skills needed to examine a complex table of data and generate statements relating to the evidence. The activity will help students to: * extract information from numerical data, and identify any patterns and trends * link...

These activities, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, help students to interpret diagrams and visual representations that are drawn in cross-section.

This is a skill that is often taken for granted but often used in scientific representations, such as when drawing apparatus. This activity...