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CLIL - Science Across the World
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CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning |
The latest countries to join Science Across the World
(as of Jan '08)
| I can't really explain why, but knowing this information gives me a great feeling. Just seeing the names of the countries, seeing the dates and the numbers of countries joining the programme gives me the feeling that we're achieving something very important. |
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Science Across annual team meeting
September 21-22, 2007
| The Science Across team meeting always a brief but busy event brought together colleagues from Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, Holland and the UK to take stock of the project and plan for the future. |  |
It is a time of change at the end of our collaboration with GSK and the agenda reflected the need to look ahead.
The key to the development and further growth of the Science Across project is and always has been the unique resources on offer and the opportunity for interaction created for teachers and students getting involved.
Marianne Cutler, our programme director, presented results from an evaluation of Science Across the World carried out by King's College London. The conclusions make very positive reading, but there is no room for complacency. There aren’t any other sites like Science Across which offers Science topics for investigation between classes in different parts of the world in a common language. There are, on the other hand, a number of wonderful Web 2.0 sites which offer all manner of interaction for their users.
Ben from Bit10, the web company managing the Science Across site, gave us an informative presentation on what is out there and based on our ‘core values’ tried to give an indication of where Science Across might go bearing in mind developments and innovations in internet communication.
Without going into details about this here and now, I’d just say keep an eye open for these developments to appear at the Science Across website www.scienceacross.org. There will be more possibility for interaction between people, more opportunity to contribute immediately to discussion, chances to participate in building content on the site and many others.
Graham Jackson also presented ideas for a new topic on Air Quality.
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Nigel’s absence was keenly felt, not least on the group picture in front of the new premises the project occupies. Science Across is now located in the new ASE building in the University campus in Hatfield. |
It's great to be involved in a team like this. To say I learn something from them each time we meet is an understatement. I'm learning about Science and Science teaching, but I do also learn a lot about teaching language from the project on Science and created by Science educators. It's no surprise to me that so many language teachers have signed up in recent years.
Long may it continue!
May 8th, 2007
Welcome and congratulations to Stella Maris Martinez of Ing Giúdici School in Argentina for being the 5000th teacher to join the Science Across the World programme.
Stella is working with Science Across and exchanging with schools worldwide on the Acid Rain topic.
Nov 18, 2006
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Science Across the World team meeting 17/18 November 2006 The team got together for its annual meeting in Hatfield this week. It’s an important time for Science Across the World for a number of reasons and the team had a lot to discuss. Jeff Howson a freelance e-learning consultant presented a proposal for developments of the Making the News initiative. MTN is an internet news and publishing service for schools. Science Across and MTN have been collaborating on the topic of Climate Change offering schools web space for publishing students’ work and the results can be seen at http://mtn.e2bn.net/satw_central/. |
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Jeff talked about a number of wonderful online tools for working in school links, publishing students’ work and communicating all of which may be exploited to enrich the Science Across experiences of teachers and students.
The group were very motivated by the ideas Jeff presented and his input on developing Science Across the World. The future may well be in student-generated content… To this end the following topics
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Nov 17, 2006
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Chemistry for Humanity Poster Competition Science Across the World, October 2006 Overwhelming success of the 'Chemistry for Humanity' poster competition
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| Before the deadline (May 1st, 2006)
427 real pieces of art on paper arrived at SAW head
quarters in Hatfield, UK. Electronic mailboxes had to be emptied several times
per day, because of an overflow of 517 graphic
files in various formats. Altogether we received 944
entries from
32 different countries. The posters were divided in two age categories:
10-13 and 14-16.
Science Across the World (SAW), the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry's (IUPAC) Committee on Chemical Education (CCE) and the Korean Chemical Society (KCS) collaborated over the past year to launch and administer this global poster competition. Students were asked to visualize their ideas about 'Chemistry for Humanity'. Read more about the wonderful event at the Science Across the World website at www.scienceacross.org
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