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History and Philosophy in Science Teaching (HIPST)
**Gateway Page**

The HIPST project was created to provide ideas and resources for teaching of History and Philosophy in Science Teaching.It is funded by the EU and directed from Germany. Seven other countries are involved: Israel, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, Poland and the UK. It started in February 2008 and will close with international publication in July 2010.

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UK
The UK Principal Investigator is Dr John Oversby, Reading University.

This page directs you to related wikispaces. They may be still under construction but are ready to start working on for trials. This page will be updated as the project develops. The linked web sites will be regularly updated as each programme is trialled.

Each of the three themed sites (Instruments, Acidity, Chemical Equations) has sections on Teachers Scholarly Reading, Outline Scheme of Work, Learner Activity Overview. As sites develop we will include, for example: 1. Case Studies to show how a lesson or group of lessons may be taught. These will include analysis from the Teacher Action Research where available. 2. Videos of historical equipment being used, largely based on the Firenze Museum under Paulo Brenni 3. Materials written in intermediate language, some of by the learners themselves and some by teachers 4. Videos of classroom activities as teaching exercises. 5. Blogs by learners and teachers. 6. Formal assessment activities with sample results.

[|Instruments] [|Acidity]

[|Modelling or representation in the context of chemical symbolism]

[|Action Research]

John Oversby