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|resourcenumber=SC0054
|resourcenumber=SC0054
|age= Secondary age 11-16, Secondary
|age= Secondary age 11-16, Secondary
|content=This popular guidebook, now released as below, provided content for the drive to adopt technology for teaching science in classrooms. It collected countless ideas for using IT tools in science and provided practical examples of how they can work to good effect. In summary, the ideas within are classified as follows:
|content=This popular guidebook, now released as below, provides content for those keen to adopt technology for teaching science in classrooms. It includes countless ideas for using IT tools in science and provides practical examples of how they can work to good effect. Ideas within are classified as follows:
* Communicating – using graphics, publishing and word processing tools  
* Communicating – using graphics, publishing and word processing tools.
* Handling information – using a spreadsheet or database
* Handling information – using a spreadsheet or database.
* Measuring in science – using electronic sensors and data loggers
* Measuring in science – using electronic sensors and data loggers.
* Modelling ideas – using a spreadsheet; modelling software; simulation or animation
* Modelling ideas – using a spreadsheet, modelling software, simulation or animation.
The book pre-dated the use of the internet for communicating and research, hence the use of the term IT and not ICT in secondary science.  
The book pre-dated the use of the internet for communicating and research, hence the use of the term 'IT' and not 'ICT' in secondary science.  
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|Learning Objectives=Typically using IT or ICT leads to situations where the following can more become part of the culture
* Collaborating with others and refining their work.
* Can collaborate with others and refine their work
* Creating a model to explore an idea.
* Can create a model to explore an idea  
* Using appropriate media and graphs to communicate their findings.
* Can use appropriate media and graphs to communicate their findings
* Being aware of the measuring tools available investigate to investigate an idea.
* Are aware of the measuring tools available investigate to investigate an idea
* Comparing their findings with those of others across the world.
* Compare their findings with those of others across the world


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|useful information=Book data: ISBN 0-9520257-2-8. 132pp spiral bound. First published 1994 revised x 11 to 2003. Copies 6,000. Price £16.50. <br />Author: http://rogerfrost.com Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roger-Frost/e/B0034PHJ5M
|useful information=Book data: ISBN 0-9520257-2-8. 132pp spiral bound. First published 1994, revised x 11 to 2003, £16.50, see Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roger-Frost/e/B0034PHJ5M <br />Author: [http://rogerfrost.com Roger Frost]
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