- Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties: Science: National Curriculum website: Introduction, Responding to pupils' needs, opportunities and activities at key stage 1-4, performance descriptions.
- Inclusive Science and Special Educational Needs: An Association for Science Education/ National Association for Special Educational Needs collaboration project. These pages aim to facilitate the sharing of good practice and ideas relating to the education of students with special educational needs in science. They display some of the findings from the research and networking that has been undertaken to support teachers.
- A Bibliography of Science and Special Educational Needs: a thematic reading list of Science/SEN references maintained by David Wilson.
- Support in science for students with special educational needs, article in Science education newsletter 153, pp. 1-3, The Science Special Needs Supplement, a book with eight adapted activities and Inclusive Science, a book with six activities adapted for a range of learning difficulties, all written by Jill Bancroft of the University of York Science Education Group (UYSEG)
- Developing the Science Curriculum for Pupils with Special Educational Needs: Strategies and objectives for inclusive science teaching at key stage 3 on the West Sussex Grid for Learning site.
- Tools for Inclusion: Science & SEN: Case studies of ICT usage in support of learners of science with special educational needs.
- Additional Needs Net Biology, Chemistry and Physics resources appropriate to learners with special educational needs.
- A Review of Special Needs Education in Science: Ethan Frome's PGCE lecture: identifying needs, formulating a strategy and implementing the strategy, developing science materials and activities for learners with physical and sensory impairments, literacy, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
- Science Classrooms for Students with Special Needs: ERIC Digest.
- Access to Science: online references to disability issues in science.
- Barrier Free Education: "a resource site helping students with disabilities gain access to math and science education. The text and links at this site are intended to inform and assist students with disabilities, parents, and teachers."
- Able scientists: Chris Hopkins talks to chemistry professor Alan Jones about some of the issues facing disabled science students.
- Special Education Science: Science target-setting for the individual educational plans of learners with special educational needs.
- Science & SEN: Science and pupils with SEN - Exhall Grange School's Approach: "Learning by doing - enjoying practical Science"
- alexandra the great: As part of a focus for Science Year, Alexandra School, a primary EBD/MLD school in Harrow made a successful application to the Royal Society for a Partnership Award to work in collaboration with a scientist from the Research and Development Department at Kodak Ltd, a local employer.
- Assembly: Script of a science-based assembly at Hitchmead School in Biggleswade, where EBD/MLD pupils are taught.
- Teaching Science to Students with Disabilities: Strategies that can be used for teaching science to students with disabilities. Lists relevant ERIC citations with abstracts. Full-text ERIC documents can be obtained in microfiche or paper format from ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education, 1110 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201-5704, USA.
- Inclusion in science education for students with disabilities: A West Virginia University website offering strategies, organisations, resources, books and videos of interest to teachers of science to students with special educational needs, including attention deficit, learning disabilities, behavioural disorders, intellectual disorders, communication disorders, motor/orthopaedic, hearing impairments, visual impairments.
- Inclusion and Science Education: Critical Issues for Science Teachers: paper by Michelle Smietana, graduate student at Northern Illinois University.
- Curriculum development in teaching science to students with disabilities: contribution by Greg P. Stefanich of the University of Northern Iowa.
- Modifying hands-on science lessons for students with special needs: a model of collaboration: teamwork between educational professionals as the key to the delivery of science to learners with special needs.
- Working Together: Science Teachers and Students with Disabilities Meet the Speakers in the Videotape: disabled science students talk about their needs.
- The Lawrence Scadden Teacher of the Year Award in Science Education for Students with Disabilities: The Lawrence Scadden Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award recognises outstanding elementary and high school science teachers who have engaged all students, particularly those with disabilities in learning science.
- Special Needs (SPED) students and the science classroom: computer simulation as an alternative to vivisection for students of science with special needs.
- Building Bridges Between Science and Special Education: Inclusion in the Science Classroom: Electronic Journal of Science Education article in by Deborah H. Haskell of Clemson University.
- Science educator perceptions: inclusion in science classrooms: the findings of a teacher survey about the teaching of science to students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms.
- Inclusive Safety Solutions: "What every (science) teacher should know about special education and laboratory safety legislation", excerpt from the September 1999 issue of The Science Teacher.
- Event-Based Science and Special Needs Students: "Event-Based Science modules are meant to challenge students, to encourage them to rise to the demands of real-world problems. But what do you do if you have students who are already challenged? And what do you do if these students are mainstreamed into your regular classes?"
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