People in Science: Elements and Atoms

www.peopleinscience.com

KS4 (Years 10 - 11)

Science & ICT

This product is distributed by Longman (Pearson Education) (Tel: 0800 579 579)

People in Science: Elements and Atoms is an innovative program which Key Stage 4 pupils will find interesting and motivating. It aims to foster the understanding of how scientific ideas, particularly with regard to elements and atoms, developed over the centuries. It provides a great deal of practice in using other skills relating to both ICT and Literacy. With familiarity, it is an easy program to operate and each student should be able to produce an interesting sequence that can be saved for later use. Useful activities are provided in text form and more information is offered online. The program offers differentiation for more able and less able students. This program may well show a way forward for multimedia learning over the next few years.

I used this software to teach the history of the Periodic Table by using the program to make a presentation which the pupils watched via a digital projector. They then answered questions and made notes for their GCSE work. The pupils also used the software themselves to explore the elements and their history, and made presentations to explain their findings.