One category of educational material prepared during the second phase of PEM (2002-2004), was the one intended for the teaching of Natural Sciences, for all three grades of the secondary (middle) school. Together with the material for Natural Sciences, PEM also produced material for the Technology class. The material for each grade includes a book for the pupil, a book for the teacher, and a “package” of laboratory items. 

This educational material

• Is suitable for bilingual pupils.
• Compensates for Minority pupils’ lack of laboratory experience on these subjects.
• Takes into account the Education Ministry’s “Cross-Thematic Curriculum” (ΔΕΠΠΣ)
• Intends to help pupils learn scientific practices, within the framework of the teaching of “sciences as culture”, and
• Shows the link between the “exact” Natural Sciences and Technology.

The material has been designed to meet the following educational specifications:

• Each of its sections corresponds to a specific area of the natural world.
• It emphasizes the differences between the “complex” life sciences and the “exact” natural sciences.
• It creates the preconditions for the personal and social construction of knowledge.
• It provides teachers with the rationale based on which this material was structured, and indicates clearly which points in the material are more important in an evaluation.

And, last but not least,

• The items included in its packages are user-friendly

This material has shown that, in addition to providing educational support for teachers, it can also address substantially (and not just by improving the exam scores), and successfully, the failure of Minority (and Majority) pupils in natural science classes.

for teachers, it can also address substantially (and not just by improving the exam scores), and successfully, the failure of Minority (and Majority) pupils in natural science classes.