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Science is often at the forefront of media attention, be it a news story, movie, television programme or new technology.
Using topical narratives makes science lessons more relevant, engaging and motivating but very often finding links to the topics being taught and designing accompanying resources takes up valuable PPA time.
This is where Snapshot Science can help. It is a blog that not only seeks out these topical stories, but suggests ideas on how they could be used in the science classroom and provides original, free, downloadable resources.
About me
I am a full-time freelance writer and editor of educational science resources. Previous to this, I spent 8 years as a secondary school science teacher.
The idea for Snapshot Science came about when I was looking through some of the old resources that I created as a teacher. I had amassed a huge collection of news stories that I had cut out from newspapers that I had planned to base lessons around and never found the time.
I know that this is something that many science teachers also do, but there must be an easier way than trawling though the web and papers every week! So, I decided to combine my love of writing, designing resources and surfing the web – hence Snapshot Science was born.
My Portfolio
To open an interactive portfolio showing my work to date please click on the download button.
Downloadable resources created by Snapshot Science are licensed under an attribution non-commercial creative commons license.
May 24, 2010 @ 15:39:55
Will ensure I link to your site from mine. Your site will be very useful for ideas for the AS coursework essays
May 24, 2010 @ 16:08:50
Thanks Allison, much appreciated.
If you use any of my posts for inspiration please let me know how it went.
Aug 11, 2010 @ 17:26:16
Thanks for the comments on my blog… yours is ace… I’m just getting started but I am a moderator for a national History forum… http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum and I have the joy of being my school’s VLE Lead Teacher so I will be pushing our Science department towards your site!
Aug 12, 2010 @ 10:31:47
Thanks for the comment – I’m a relative newbie too (started in April) but I am really enjoying blogging. I like the look of the history forum – wish there was something similar for science…maybe there is and I haven’t found it yet…
I will follow your blog with interest – teaching history and science is quite similar in a way. Searching for evidence/reliability of sources etc and in science we teach some history about how ideas have changed over time (I guess this is how history is still taught – haven’t experienced it since being a student myself!).
Aug 12, 2010 @ 17:41:38
Funnily enough one of my good friends teaches Physics at school and we often crossover with Cholera and Nightingale stuff!
Happy Blogging!