Citizenship at key stage 3    (Year 7-9)

Resources include:

• press and TV news coverage
• the British Organ Donor Society's booklets and video related to tissue and organ transplantation
• Solomon, J, SATIS 16-19: How does society decide? ASE, 1992
  
• John Stringer (ed), SATIS 8-14, ASE, 1992: 2.8, Unit 2 'Reporting science' (an activity about science in the popular press); 3.8, Unit 1 'Gift of life' (sensitively introduces the concept of organ donation and transplantation)
  
• The Charis Project, Charis Science Units A1-A9, 2000 (teacher resources promoting moral and spiritual development through the school curriculum. Available through the Association for Science Education website - www.ase.org.uk)
  
• Citizenship education: the global dimension (a booklet available in pdf from www.citizenship-global.org.uk)
  
• Ted Huddleston and Don Rowe, Good thinking: education for citizenship and moral responsibility, Volume 1: KS3, Citizenship Foundation, 2001
  
• Mary Ratcliffe (ed), ASE Guide to Secondary Science Education, 1998 (contains a number of relevant articles: those on understanding evidence, the nature of science, environmental education and social and ethical applications of science)
  
• Association for Science Education (ASE) Science Year CD-ROM, 'can we; should we?'
  
• useful websites, eg
• www.newscientist.com (New Scientist, for their 'hot topics')
• www.argonet.co.uk/body/ (British Organ Donor Society)
• www.learn.co.uk/glearning/secondary/science/default.htm (Guardian learning, science lesson packs)
• www.learn.co.uk/glearning/secondary/topical/default.htm (Guardian learning, topical lessons; gives access to a library of lessons, free to schools for a period of 30 days before a subscription fee becomes payable)
• www.whyfiles.org (US website based on topical science news stories and the science behind the news, designed for use in education)
• www.stlcc.cc.mo.us/fp/users/kkiser/History.page.htm#Culture Methods (excellent, detailed site on the history of microbiology featuring Pasteur, Jenner, Koch, etc)
• www.ase.org.uk/aselinks/ (Association for Science Education)