Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity enables students to learn about the basic structure and style of scientific articles. Students first test their ability to extract key information from informal or popular science articles. Initially, these are more accessible than research papers....

This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, enables students to develop their ability to gain a more detailed sense of the structure and subject matter of a scientific article. After completing the exercise, students should be able to: * locate the themes and keywords within an article *...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity revisits the skim reading skills developed earlier in the series. It requires students to think about what makes a title useful and how to write titles themselves. Students consider what the purpose of a title is and why an author may write a catchy...

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.

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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...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, the resources in this section help students to develop their skills in reading for information.

Text with lots of information and subject-specific language demotivates...

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...

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...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity requires students to examine a complex table of data and generate statements relating to the evidence it contains.

The activity will help students to:
* extract information from numerical data
* identify any patterns and trends...

This activity, produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, challenges students to explore a large data set to identify any interesting trends. Students are then asked to suggest an explanation for each of the trends they identify. Similarly, the students are asked to identify and explain anomalies in the data...

Produced by Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme, this activity helps student to formulate questions relating to graphs and so gain a deeper understanding of the data represented.

This activity asks students to look at a graph and interpret the information it contains. They are then asked to devise questions...