Advent calendar 2015: week four
December 17, 2015 | Issue 34Welcome to the Science in School Advent calendar for 2015.
INSPIRE
Watch Principia live
December 15, 2015 | Issue 34Watch the launch of ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko to the International Space Station on 15 December at 11:03 GMT (12:03 CET).
Advent calendar 2015: week three
December 11, 2015 | Issue 34Welcome to the Science in School Advent calendar for 2015.
Advent calendar 2015: week two
December 6, 2015 | Issue 34Welcome to the Science in School Advent calendar for 2015
Advent calendar 2015: week one
November 30, 2015 | Issue 34Welcome to the Science in School Advent calendar for 2015.
Teacher on the high seas
November 23, 2015 | Issue 34Educator, student and Arctic explorer combined – Giulia Realdon can’t think of a better job than being a science teacher.
The mathematician who became a biologist
November 23, 2015 | Issue 34Theodore Alexandrov is taking what he learned from working on the economy and applying it to the chemicals on our skin.
Space for all the sciences: the ESA teachers workshop
November 23, 2015 | Issue 34In July 2015, 120 teachers from around Europe converged at ESA to learn how to use space as a context for broader teaching.
UNDERSTAND
Planet parade in the morning sky
January 28, 2016 | Issue 34Right now (and continuing until late February 2016), Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter are visible in the sky in a straight line: a rare astronomical show.
Infecting climate change
December 7, 2015 | Issue 34Viruses help carbon sink deep down in the oceans.
Unexpected climate change
December 1, 2015 | Issue 34Reporting from the COP21 conference in Paris, we ask why ‘global warming’ can actually make the weather colder.
A safari in your mouth’s microbial jungle
November 25, 2015 | Issue 34A citizen science project travelled over 7000 km to explore the microbial population in students’ mouths.
Planetary energy budgets
November 25, 2015 | Issue 34Understanding Earth’s climate system can teach us about other planets.
Learning from laughter
November 25, 2015 | Issue 34Neuroscientist and stand-up comic Sophie Scott explains the complexity and social importance of laughter.
Space, student visits and new science
November 24, 2015 | Issue 34Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest intergovernmental scientific research organisations (EIROs). This article reviews some of the latest news from EIROs.
How neuroscience is helping us to understand attention and memory
November 23, 2015 | Issue 34How electrodes placed directly in the brain are teaching us about learning.
TEACH
Doing is understanding: science fun in India
November 26, 2015 | Issue 34School children in India built their own digital microscope, bent light and investigated gas laws. Find out how.
Experimenting with storytelling
November 26, 2015 | Issue 34Folktales can be a great way to introduce hands-on science into the primary-school classroom.
High flyers: thinking like an engineer
November 25, 2015 | Issue 34Designing a glider wing helps students understand forces and what it means to be an engineer.
Microplastics: small but deadly
November 25, 2015 | Issue 34Try these hands-on activities to introduce your students to microplastics – a hazard for fish and other marine animals – and to our responsibilities to our environment.
EDITORIAL
Editorial issue 34
November 26, 2015 | Issue 34Ahead of the traditional New Year resolutions, Science in School has changed its look.