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A definitive
planning guide for those who want to use computers for teaching science to children aged
from 7 to 12.
BETT '99 Awards Finalist: Best Teacher Support material
This book shows the many ways that you can use computers to help
teach science. It works its way through the curriculum, topic by topic and suggests all
the places you can use IT. It lists all the software and CD-Rom titles - and says which
ones are the best. Using illustrations and examples, it also shows you how you to use
sensors, control technology, word processors, graphics programs, databases and
spreadsheets.
Every any brand of computer is catered for and IT aside, it is a
valuable bank of excellent science activities. Many new resources, a new
curriculum and the huge success of this book's predecessor, The IT in Primary
Science Book (reviews below) have lead to this exciting new edition. The current edition was published in
October 2003 is updated
annually, since its first publication in October 1995. It is a recommended set book
in many teacher
teaching colleges. Available in Dutch as 'Sensor' from CPS.
With around 25,000 schools for age 8 and up in the UK, and
25,000 copies sold, there has to be one your school.
It contains ideas for using:
- Databases - worked examples
- Spreadsheets - worked examples
- Sensors - worked examples
- Control - worked examples
- CD-Rom and science software - with comment
- IT assessment
- Graphics packages
- Word processing
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What they said about it...
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"As a necessary support for investigative work, the IT in
Primary Science Book (ASE) is an absolute delight. It has very unthreatening explanations
of how to use spreadsheets, databases and graphics programs and an extensive section on
using sensors. There is an excellent reference section on software and hardware."
Times Educational Supplement 19.2.93
"A treasure trove ..." Association for Science
Education's School Science Review. 9.93
"Extremely comprehensive ... a vast catalogue of ideas and
resources, deserving a place in every primary staffroom..." Computer Education
2.94
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Book details
IT in Primary Science 132 pp photocopiable manual. ISBN 0 9520257 3 6.
Available from the Association for
Science Education online bookshop and from many other Suppliers.
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