Science topics


Research has included opportunities to talk to learners about a wide range of topics within the school science curriculum. The links below lead to examples of things students said (or in some cases wrote), often indicating alternative ways of thinking (such as alternative conceptions).

Topics explored as part of ECLIPSE projects include:

Acceleration       Acids & alkalis       Adaptation         Atomic structure         Atoms, ions and molecules         Big bang theory        

Causality - cause and effect         Cells         Change of state         Chemical bonding Chemical change (Chemical reactions)         Chemical stability         Combustion (Burning)         Covalent bonding        

Delocalisation         Dissolving         DNA        

Electrical charge         Electricity         Electrolysis         Electronegativity         Elements, compounds and mixtures         Energy         Evolution

Fluid flow         Forces         Formulae         Friction         Gases         Gravity        

Heat         Hormones         Ionic bonding         Ionisation        

Light         Magnets and Magnetism         Mass Spectrometry         Materials         Metabolism         Metallic bonding        

Nature of explanation         Nature of physics         Nature of science        

Particles         Periodic table         Photosynthesis         Plant nutrition         Proteins        

Radioactivity         Reproduction         Respiration         Resonance         Rocks        

Scientific laws         Scientific symbols         Solutions         Space         States of matter

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Dr Keith S Taber kst24@cam.ac.uk

University of Cambridge Faculty of Education

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