Issue 1

Download Issue 1 as PDF [2.8 MB]

Editorial Events Feature article: Oliver Sacks Cutting-edge science Teaching activities Projects in science education Science topics Spotlight on education Scientist profiles Teacher profile Science in film Reviews Resources on the web Back in the staffroom

Editorial

• Welcome to the first issue of Science in School, a journal to promote inspiring science teaching in Europe. We hope you will be fascinated, informed and indeed inspired by the articles we have chosen. -
  Read (English, Albanian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian) | PDF [252 KB]

Events

• Science teachers take centre stage - Read (English, German)| PDF [220 KB]
• Space balloons, mousetraps and earthquakes, it's Science on Stage! - Read (English, German) | PDF [240 KB]
• Forthcoming events - Read (updated) | PDF [148 KB]

Feature article: Oliver Sacks

• In Chapter 7 of his book, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Oliver Sacks recalls his discovery of the delights of chemistry
  - Read | PDF [108 KB]

Cutting-edge science

• Defying the laws of physics - Read (English, Greek, Ukrainian) | PDF [256 KB]
• A bright future for light microscopy - Read (English, Spanish) | PDF [204 KB]
• Shipwreck: science to the rescue! - Read (English, French, Swedish, Ukrainian) | PDF [448 KB]

Teaching activities

• Teaching science and humanities: an interdisciplinary approach - Read (English, Albanian, Italian, Spanish) | PDF [272 KB]
• Discovering DNA - Read (English, Albanian, Dutch, Italian) | PDF [336 KB]
• Scientists at play: teaching science process skills - Read (English, Italian) | PDF [192 KB]
• Tracing earthquakes: seismology in the classroom - Read (English, Dutch, German) | PDF [244 KB]

Projects in science education

• 'Spiders in Space': a collaboration between education and research - Read (English, Polish)| PDF [316 KB]
• Launching a dream: the first European student satellite in orbit - Read (English, German) | PDF [176 KB]

Science topics

• Fusion – the ace in the energy pack? - Read (English, Dutch, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish) | PDF [308 KB]
• Running one of the world's largest telescopes - Read (English, Dutch, French)| PDF [336 KB]
• Diabetes mellitus - Read (English, German, Italian, Portuguese) | PDF [516 KB]

Spotlight on education

• How do students perceive science and technology? - Read (English, Albanian, Bulgarian, Italian)| PDF [176 KB]

Scientist profiles

• The sky's the limit - Read | PDF [176 KB]
• Fighting malaria on a new front - Read (English, Italian, Portuguese) | PDF [276 KB]

Teacher profile

• Those who can, teach - Read (English, German)| PDF [184 KB]

Science in film

• Deep Impact - Read (English, Croat/Serbian, Czech/Slovak, Estonian, German, Italian, Latvian, Slovene) | PDF [148 KB]

Reviews

• Evolution in Four Dimensions - Read (English, Spanish, Ukrainian) | PDF [152 KB]
• The Ancestor's Tale - Read (English, Spanish) | PDF [156 KB]
• DNA Interactive (DVD) - Read (English, Spanish) | PDF [156 KB]
• The Elements of Murder - Read (English, Spanish) | PDF [156 KB]
• Nanotechnology DVDs - Read (English, Spanish) | PDF [148 KB]

Resources on the web

• Free image databases - Read (updated) | PDF [100 KB]

Back in the staffroom

• The DNA cocktail - Read | PDF [160 KB]