Provides support for the Science Enquiry strand of the National Strategy for Science. This photocopiable pack can be used as a comprehensive set of integrated investigatinal resources. It contains both student and teacher material 'back to back' for easy reference. It provides a range of materials allowing for individual and group work.

The Art & Science of Web Design will help you understand the Web from the inside. It is structured around core Web concepts that often get only a passing mention in books on Web design. This book is not a reference book or a style guide. It is your mentor, whispering in your ear all the answers to those ubiquitous questions, and reminding us that there are now new rules and new ways to break them.

Originally published as Foundations and trends in web science; vol. 1, issue 1.

This textbook follows the QCA Scheme of Work. It has extended page layout to allow full coverage of topics and learning objectives and learning methods to support student planning and learning at the start of each chapter. Ideas and evidence in science are fully supported and homework and revision questions are included at the end of each chapter.

Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience, R for Data Science is designed to get you doing data science as quickly as possible. Authors Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund guide you through the steps of importing, wrangling, exploring, and modeling your data and communicating the results. You'll get a complete, big-picture understanding of the data science cycle, along with basic tools you need to manage the details. Each section of the book is paired with exercises to help you practice what you've learned along the way. You'll learn how to: Wrangle—transform your datasets into a form convenient for analysis Program—learn powerful R tools for solving data problems with greater clarity and ease Explore—examine your data, generate hypotheses, and quickly test them Model—provide a low-dimensional summary that captures true "signals" in your dataset Communicate—learn R Markdown for integrating prose, code, and results

Although written simply enough to be accessible to undergraduates, accomplished scholars are likely to appreciate it too. Reading it taught me quite a lot about a subject I thought I knew rather well. - Paul Vogt, Illinois State University "This book brings the art and science of building and applying innovative online research tools to students and faculty across the social sciences." - William H. Dutton, University of Oxford A comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of web Social Science. This book demonstrates how the web is being used to collect social research data, such as online surveys and interviews, as well as digital trace data from social media environments, such as Facebook and Twitter. It also illuminates how the advent of the web has led to traditional social science concepts and approaches being combined with those from other scientific disciplines, leading to new insights into social, political and economic behaviour. Situating social sciences in the digital age, this book aids: understanding of the fundamental changes to society, politics and the economy that have resulted from the advent of the web choice of appropriate data, tools and research methods for conducting research using web data learning how web data are providing new insights into long-standing social science research questions appreciation of how social science can facilitate an understanding of life in the digital age It is ideal for students and researchers across the social sciences, as well as those from information science, computer science and engineering who want to learn about how social scientists are thinking about and researching the web.

Like a search engine for science teachers, How to'eave the Web into K - 8 Science is your custom-made guide to bringing the best of the Internet into your classroom. Author David Wetzel has done the work of locating online materials for you. The book offers resources for the Web-based science teaching and learning plus online technical help for both beginners and experienced computer users. You even get instructions for developing your own Web page. In three concise chapters, this book covers: the rationale behind using Web-based resources for science teaching, and tips for making the most of the Internet; practical strategies you can put to work immediately, including the topics of one-computer and multicomputer calssrooms, wireless and hand-held computers, Web-based learning centres and lessons, WebQuests, virtual tours, labs, field trips, and multimedia presentations; and a wealth of Internet resources including search engines, directories, and NSTA's own SciLinks and Webwatchers. There is an extensive section of Web-based resources listed by category and science-content area. Best of all, in a special companion Web site, you'll find updated Web addresses as well as new resources that came out after this book was printed.