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To clone or not to clone? That is the question that the book A Clone of Your Own? sets out to investigate.
Ages: 16-19;
ChemMatters is an award-winning magazine published quarterly by the American Chemical Society for secondary-school students.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
“If you are not interested in how evolution came about, and cannot conceive how anyone could be seriously concerned about anything other than human affairs, then do not read it: it will only make you needlessly angry,” wrote John Maynard Smith about The Selfish Gene.
Ages: 16-19;
Anna Gawthorp describes the creation of the ambitious Science Learning Centres network to help UK teachers, technicians and classroom assistants to make UK science education world-class.
Ages: not applicable;
Naheed Alizadeh from Imperial College, London, UK, explains how and why the INSPIRE project is trying to make inspirational science lessons, clubs, and master classes regular features of the state school timetable in the UK.
Ages: not applicable;
In September 2006, after a pilot phase, a new national curriculum for science was introduced for students aged 14-16 in England and Wales. Jenifer Burden explains how the new curriculum seeks to address both the scientific needs of all citizens, and the additional needs of future scientists.
Ages: not applicable;
In this autobiographical book, Maurice Wilkins presents the chronological story of the discovery of DNA structure in 1953. As The Third Man of the Double Helix, Wilkins is well placed to describe the complex scientific background and people involved in the breakthrough that earned him and fellow…
Ages: 16-19;
Rhythms of Life is a successful attempt to present what is currently known about time cycles in living creatures. It is a book about biological clocks, that is, the biological mechanisms that enable all organisms from bacteria to worms, plants, birds and mammals, including humans, to ‘tell’ the…
Ages: 16-19;
The success of an academic discipline has a lot to do with the attractiveness of its founding ideas and discoveries. These in turn reach the next generation of practitioners through textbooks.
Ages: 16-19;
Films about science or even pseudo-science can be powerful tools in the classroom. Jenna Stevens from the CISCI project provides a toolkit for using the film Erin Brockovich in chemistry and ecology lessons.
Ages: 16-19;
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A Clone of Your Own?, By Arlene Judith Klotzko
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ChemMatters CD-ROM
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The Selfish Gene and Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think, By Richard Dawkins
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Science Learning Centres: training for teachers
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Inspirational lessons in the science class
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Twenty First Century Science: developing a new science curriculum
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The Third Man of the Double Helix, By Maurice Wilkins
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Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing, By Leon Kreitzman and Russell Foster
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Molecular Biology of the Cell* and Molecular Biology of the Cell: A Problems Approach, By Tim Hunt and John Wilson
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Erin Brockovich
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