Doing science in order to communicate about science from 1st course of ESO: learning to think, to read, to make, to communicate and to write science

This article presents the project \Doing science in order to communicate about science from 1st course of ESO : learning to think, to read, to make to communicate and to write science", awarded with “Ethics and Science for schools" second price in 2015 by the Foundation Victor Grífols i Lucas. The project's aim is twofold: the first one is that students gradually achieve during the whole ESO's itinerary a high-quality scientific alphabetization from all the areas and thus acquiring scientific and linguistic competencies that qualify them to ask themselves questions that can be answered through by research. Its second goal is to encourage students to ethically process sources of information and data gathering as well as to make a sustainable use of the available resources. Communication and external dissemination of the process and results of the research is encouraged in two main ways. The first one, is achieved by using Juan Manuel Zafra high-school's website as teaching-learning tool: both in the private area (Moodle) and the public area (with an on-line magazine, news, tweets and blogs). Moreover, students are encouraged to participate in young researchers meetings, as Exporecerca Jove, Jóvenes Investigadores, Galiciencia among others research seminars. This article propounds a progression of the scientific and linguistic competences along the four courses of ESO as well as proposing frames in which the student body can be initiated in the research process.