Las fronteras de la Ciencia

Abstract: This book has been writen by a group of teachers in Service and promoted by IEPS (Instituto de Estudios Pedagógicos Somosaguas) a Spanish Institute for Educational Research. It offers a wide variety of guidelines and resouces for teaching Science taking into consideration the new themes that come from the coming revolutions in Science, those that will be specially interesting for the present and future citizenship. The chapters of the book are organized around the following topics: Human Genome and other genomes; stem cells and the future of a Regenerative Medicine and Nanotechnology, Chemical Elements and Science for the Sustaintability. According to the nature of these themes, the proposal of the book combines scientific research and educational research but the activities are prepared to be used directly in the schools. They are precceded by a long Introduction in which the authors explain everything needed for the correct use of the book. The wide range of activities proposed are really very remarcable for it originality and they are based on the Science that is being done at the moment. The integration of the new technologies is very clear to generate in the students habits of an adequate information in Science.