Working as a class, students aim to reach consensus about the information they have found and the ideas that they have come up with.
In some topics you download the student pages and teacher guidance as pdf or Word files and print them out. Students work though a series of tasks to gather the information they need to complete an Exchange Form. In these topics the Exchange Form is included in the downloadable files.
Other topics are available as web pages so that they can be studied online. The Student pages include selected web links which allow young people to use web sites to research the information needed to complete the Exchange Form. The Exchange Form for electronic topics can be found as a Word document in the part of the topic called 'Exchanging Information'.
Some topics are available both as on-line web pages and as downloadable files offering a choice in the ways of working.
We are now experimenting with an alternative way of sharing findings between students. Instead of filling in an Exchange Form, students publish their findings on a web site using special software called Making the News.
