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School Science Review 376 Science and engineering and big questions

Editor Geoff Auty with Berry Billingsley

Issue 376 | Published April 2020

Overview

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Contents

p.5 Contents and Editorial (open access)

p.6 Coronavirus (COVID-19): trying to understand the information being supplied to the public (open access)

p.11 Science Note: Drying of gases: calcium chloride and ammonia

p.12 Science Note: A simple demonstration of the danger of an overloaded electric circuit

p.13 Science Note: A STEM activity to make a 'teaching and learning pencil case'

p.16 Theme editorial: Science, engineering and big questions (open access)

p.19 Thinking like a scientist in a multidisciplinary arena: the case of Renoir's painting

p.25 Why did the Titanic sink? – bridging two disciplines to teach epistemic insight with lower secondary school students

p.30 Marine engineering and multidisciplinary approaches to address challenges on the high seas

p.33 Bristelbots – are they alive? Epistemic insight workshops using small things to ask big questions

p.36 A biology educator's perspective on 'life'

p.40 Approaching the 'big questions' of middle-years school biology through the thinking of C.H. Waddington

p.47 Can a robot think for itself? Helping young people to ask big questions about human and electronic personhood

p.51 The Engineering Ed project: dealing with failure and the robotic future – engaging students in multidisciplinary STEM learning (open access)

p.60 Has the time come to use near-infrared spectroscopy in your science classroom?

p.67 Citizen scientists: school students conducting, contributing to and communicating ecological research – experiences of a school-university partnership

p.75 The infrared camera as a pedagogical tool in science education (open access)

p.79 The use of VPython/GlowScript to model chemical phenomena

p.83 Book reviews

p.93 Science Websearch

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