PEC
European Science Teachers:
Scientific Knowledge, Linguistic Skills and Digital Media
Introduction
The activities on this CD are designed to help pupils learn useful science from information obtainable through the Internet. They are intended as exemplars to illustrate the variety of ways in which pupils may work with textual materials from electronic sources. Student teachers are encouraged to use them as models for preparing their own activities for lessons which use the Internet.
The activities may be used on screen, alternating with screens resulting from Internet searches. Alternatively, document versions may be downloaded for printing as hard copy which pupils could use both alongside and away from the computer. Selected websites are stored on the CD so that they are accessible without online connection, but full exploitation of the suggested sites requires live connection to the Internet. Links are provided to all the sites used in the activities, avoiding the need to type URL addresses.
The Student Teacher edition provides a teachers' commentary on the activities, explaining the rationale for the selection of websites and the pedagogical aims of particular tasks. Overall, the activities and teachers' commentary should help student teachers gain an awareness of principles which should underpin the design of activities seeking to develop pupils' scientific understanding and linguistic skills. It is hoped that student teachers will apply these principles when planning their own class activities with the Internet.
Criteria for the selection of websites (Model A)
Analysis of linguistic and scientific activities (Model B)
