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Teach issue40diseasedynamics_Teaser
| Issue 40

Disease dynamics: understanding the spread of diseases

Get to grips with the spread of infectious diseases with these classroom activities highlighting real-life applications of school mathematics.

Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Biology, Health, Mathematics
         

Understand issue37_eironews_teaser
| Issue 37

Sign up your students to see the large and the small

Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest inter-governmental scientific research organisations (EIROs). This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROs.

Ages: not applicable;
Topics: News from the EIROs, Physics, Biology, Chemistry

Understand eirohighlights_teaser
| issue 35

A decade in review

How ten years of science at the EIROforum member institutions has led to many new discoveries.

Ages: not applicable;
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry

Teach folktalesteaser
| Issue 34

Experimenting with storytelling

Folktales can be a great way to introduce hands-on science into the primary-school classroom.

Ages: <11;
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Earth science, Science and society, General science
       

Teach issue32_writing_teaser
| Issue 32

Once upon a time there was a pterodactyl…

Adapting the steps of the scientific method can help students write about science in a vivid and creative way. 

Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16;
Topics: Science and society, General science
 

Teach issue19habitat
| Issue 19

Building a space habitat in the classroom

What does it take to live on the Moon or even Mars? Erin Tranfield suggests an interdisciplinary teaching activity to get your students thinking about this – and learning a lot of science along the way.

Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Astronomy / space