Biomimicry: a nature-based approach to designing sustainable futures
September 2, 2024 | Issue 69Learn from nature: biomimicry can be an inspiring interdisciplinary teaching tool that motivates students through engagement with real-world problems.
INSPIRE
Save the Date: Back to School 2024-2025 with ESA and ESERO
September 2, 2024 | Issue 69Discover five exciting projects from ESA and its ESERO network. Use space to motivate and enrich your lessons for out-of-this world STEM lessons!
UNDERSTAND
CSI Astronomy: learn how to spot fake astrophotography images
September 2, 2024 | Issue 69Seeing is believing, but how can you be sure that what you see is real? Find out how to distinguish between real and fake astronomical images.
How does the body avoid multiple sperm fertilizing an egg?
September 2, 2024 | Issue 69You shall not pass: discover how the protein coating around an egg cell ‘zips up’ after fertilization to stop more sperm from entering.
TEACH
Extract value from wool waste: keratin and the circular economy
September 2, 2024 | Issue 69Spinning a yarn: explore the chemistry of wool and use it as a raw material for biobased products through simple hand-on activities.
Simple gravimetric chemical analysis – weighing molecules the microscale way
September 2, 2024 | Issue 69Learn how to do quantitative chemistry using microscale techniques with bottle tops and inexpensive spirit burners that are relatively easy and quick to set up.
Accelerators are everywhere, perhaps closer than you think…
September 2, 2024 | Issue 69Did you know that there are more than 30 000 particle accelerators around the world? Where are they, and what are they for?
Biodiversity and biomass in the school garden
September 2, 2024 | Issue 69Small but mighty: investigate the role of herbaceous plants in the school garden for their contribution to biodiversity and sequestering carbon dioxide.