INSPIRE

Inspire

Ecology: media presentation CD-ROM, By Biozone

December 10, 2008 | Issue 10

Next year, I hope to take a small group of students, aged 15-18, to Iquitos in Peru, where we will board a boat to take us up the Amazon to study the rainforest. So I was particularly interested to see that Iquitos is featured in the Introduction to Ecosystems series of slides on Ecology, a media…

Ages: 16-19
Keywords: Ecology, Biodiversity

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Teaching in Sweden: tackling creationism, making waves

December 10, 2008 | Issue 10

Conspiracies are at the heart of many a good film and book. Swedish biology teacher Per Kornhall is the author of a critical book on intelligent design and how it is taught in biology lessons in religious schools in Sweden. He talks to Sai Pathmanathan and Marlene Rau about his fascination with…

Ages: not applicable
Keywords: Science and society

 

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The winding road to science journalism

December 10, 2008 | Issue 10

Originally, Nadia Salem wanted to become a research biologist and find a cure for cancer. Today, she is a reporter for Nano, a daily science magazine on German-language TV. Nadia talked to Marlene Rau about the unpredictability of life and the joys of being a science journalist.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19
Keywords: Science communication, Careers in science

 

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Science on Stage: recent activities

December 10, 2008 | Issue 10

Many of the national Science on Stage organisations are becoming increasingly well established: running inspirational national events, inviting participants from across Europe to join them, and setting up projects with teachers in other countries. This commitment to European science education…

Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19
Keywords: Event report

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UNDERSTAND

Understand

The International Space Station: life in space

November 23, 2009 | Issue 10

How do astronauts eat, sleep and wash? Can you get ‘seasick’ in space? In the second of two articles about the ISS, Shamim Hartevelt-Velani, Carl Walker and Benny Elmann-Larsen from the European Space Agency investigate.

Ages: 16-19