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Tonight I received an email from my client with an outlined rationale outlining his reasons for wanting to produce such a book;

"A Picture paints a thousand words so why not apply that to learning and especially incorporate pictures into revision techniques. Although I love writing I have come to understand that my prime learning style is visual, diagrammatic, and pictorial. I have always in business and now in education found that expressing systems and concepts in diagrams is always the simplest way to explain anything.

As a child reading books, especially text books always put me to sleep, drawing or later in life discovering mind maps opened a whole new world of learning how to learn and in improving my communication skills.

If you like learning by simply reading then this work is not for you because it requires you to be active, linking scientific ideas and concepts to diagrams through the media of colour and the activity of colouring.

This book is unique as it uses the pedagogical; features made available by the act of colouring. It is therefore non conventional and provides both an alternative and / or a supplement to all other revision works.

Colouring introduces a kinaesthetic sense to learning, outlining shapes gives a sense of proportion linking eye and hand in coordinating key scientific concepts.
Passivity is replaced with activity, giving the learner a real sense of accomplishment as each piece of work is completed and why not hang it on your wall so you can look at each day until the exam takes place – a very valuable way of remembering quite complex principles. Not only is this book a most valuable learning tool but moreover it will provide a tremendous amount of accomplishment as the subject possibly for the first time becomes user friendly. You will have an amazing review guide as you get nearer to exams."

He also provided me with some clearer ideas of subjects to draw. I am rubbish at science, so I can only really offer my skills as an artist.

Here is the text from the document. I've highlighted the ideas I can particularly visualise...

Book section ideas
Year 8 Microbes and disease

3 types - Bacteria, Virus, fungi to colour and properties.

Hospital picture or Dr Surgery – vaccination - spot the differences or find the bacteria (hidden in the picture)

Uses – bakery, brewery, yoghurt – table with food ?

Coughs and sneezes. How disease spreads

Body invaders and protectors

Comic strip – Jenner Cowpox man.

Famous scientists – Pasteur, White, Jenner

Word search, crossword,


Year 7, 9, 10, 11BTEC Space

Development of the rocket and the driving forces

How do rockets work – cutaway?

What are they used for – satellites, Sat Nav, Hubble telescope

Apollo series – story board to colour or major shots

Space ruler – the light year
Make a model universe or set up a distance scales

Universe – Colour celestial bodies as seen through the Hubble telescope.

Spot the diffs space men on the moon

Find the Alien – Life on other planets

Year 9, 10 Food webs / habitats / sorting animals and plants

Simple Food Webs expressed in a country side or sea scence)

How are animals / plants adapted – Cactus, Polar Bear, Tropics, camel, grass lands, under the soils, woodlands, mountains, Oceans / Rivers etc etc

Find out where the following live

Make a mobile of a food web
Sustainability – job of the Ecologist

Challenges to habitats – Humans, Climate, disasters, Volcanos, floods, food supply, pesticides etc

Extinct animals / plants
Help the ? find food?

Make a bird feeder, pitfall trap, Go bird watching