SATIS 16-19: Units 26-50

Units 26 to 50 of the SATIS 16-19 series. The introductory General Guide for teachers gives information on the design and use of the units, outlines of the unit subjects relating them to science specialisms.

Structure of the units
Each SATIS 16 - 19 unit was designed to be photocopied and published in four parts:
• Notes for guidance (for teachers)
• A study guide (for students)
• Information pages
• A commentary offering hints, answers or a review of issues raised (for students after completing the study tasks).

The inclusion of the commentaries and the separation of the study guides from information were designed to encourage self-directed learning.

Teaching methods
The units featured a very wide range of teaching and learning methods including case studies, data analysis, structured discussion, practical investigations, role-play, decision making, surveys, interviews and fieldwork.

Contents
The units are:
26. Two games and the nature of science
27. What if...?
28. Thinking and learning about science
29. How shall we live?
30. An international environment survey
31. Waste
32. Risk
33. Fetal tissue transplants
34. Making yogurt
35. Should we visit nature reserves?
36. How safe is our food?
37. Cloning the Bramley
38. Death to aphids
39. Petrochemical problems
40. Steel
41. Accident or arson?
42. Chlorine bleach
43. Liquid crystals
44. Stillwater reservoir
45. A sand and gravel prospect
46. Energy from the waves
47. Playing safe
48. Traffic accident investigations
49. Radionuclides for measuring flow
50. Lightning in a tube

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