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 o f guidelines and resouces for teaching Science taking into considerati on the new themes that come from the coming revolutions in Science, th ose that will be specially interesting for the present and future citi zenship. The chapters of the book are organized around the following t opics: Human Genome and other genomes; stem cells and the future of a Regenerative Medicine and Nanotechnology, Chemical Elements and Scienc e for the Sustaintability. According to the nature of these themes, th e proposal of the book combines scientific research and educational re search but the activities are prepared to be used directly in the scho ols. They are precceded by a long Introduction in which the authors ex plain everything needed for the correct use of the book. The wide rang e of activities prop