Vasiliki Kioupi has always run science experiments with her students. Now she is also testing various pedagogical methods in her classroom and is moving towards teaching the teachers.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19; Keywords: Biology, Maths, Story telling, Enquiry, Pedagogy, Teaching methods
Methional played centre stage at the recent Second International Contest for Note by Note Cooking. The challenge: to make dishes containing only methional and ‘pure’ compounds such as milk proteins, alcohols, amino acids and flavour chemicals, and, ideally, no plant tissues, meat, fish or eggs
Ages: 14-16, 16-19; Keywords: Biology, Food technology, Chemistry
Clues to the history of the Earth, the Milky Way and the Universe are hidden on the lunar surface.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19; Keywords: Biology, Physics, Astrophysics, Geography
Teen blogger Julia Paoli and her teacher Lali DeRosier discuss how blogging can help science students
Ages: 16-19; Keywords: , Blogs, Writing
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 EIROs.
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Could hydrogen be the best alternative for fossil fuels? This demonstration shows how a hydrogen economy might work in practice.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19; Keywords: Biology, Chemistry
Building a hypothetical family portrait can help students to understand genetics.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16; Keywords: Biology, Maths, Art
The world’s largest particle accelerator, the LHC, is deepening our understanding of what happened just after the Big Bang. Here’s how to explore the principles of a particle accelerator in your classroom.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19; Keywords: Physics
These simple but unusual life forms can be used to develop students’ understanding of life and the scientific method.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19; Keywords: Biology, Genetics
On 26 December 2013, after a long and exciting trip, 56 secondary-school students from 18 countries arrived at their destination: the picturesque alpine village of Saint-Barthélemy, Italy, where the Astronomical Observatory of the Autonomous Region of the Aosta Valley (OAVdA) was built because of…
Ages: 14-16, 16-19; Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Spectrometry, Star classifications, Event, Event report, Trip, Visit
As we finalise the contents of this issue, I’ve been thinking a lot about mentors and teachers. A school reunion is not just an excuse to meet with old friends and classmates, but also an opportunity to revisit the school itself – which invariably seems smaller now than it did even when I was a…
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