Advent calendar 2016
Welcome to the Science in School Advent calendar, packed with inspiring teaching ideas for Christmas, winter and the end of term.
    
    
    
    
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                    Welcome to the Science in School Advent calendar, packed with inspiring teaching ideas for Christmas, winter and the end of term.                    
         
                    Hot, luminous and destructive: fire is a force of nature. Here we look at how to use and control it safely with water and carbon dioxide.                    
         
                    What happens inside magnets? This fun activity for primary school pupils helps them find out – by turning themselves into a magnet.                    
         
                    Astronomers are still trying to discover exactly why galaxies formed in spiral shapes, and what’s likely to happen to our galaxy in the future.                    
         
                    How Anne-Flore Laloë is chronicling the life and works of a scientific institution.                    
         
                    Using effervescent heartburn tablets, model the action of volcanoes to measure the intensity of the explosions and create your own measurement scale.                    
         
                    Encourage your students to enter our writing competition – and see their work published.                     
         
                    One of the world’s largest migrations is probably driven by a hormone that governs our sleep patterns.                    
         
                    Bruno Pin can go a long way to find new methods of making science meaningful to his students.                    
         
                    Recreate the epic fight between pathogens and the immune system in your classroom.                    
        
            
                Advent calendar 2016            
        
        
            
                Practical pyrotechnics            
        
        
            
                Be a magnet for a day            
        
        
            
                Galaxies: genesis and evolution            
        
        
            
                History in the making            
        
        
            
                Measuring the explosiveness of a volcanic eruption            
        
        
            
                Student competition: the search for the strangest species on Earth            
        
        
            
                How plankton gets jet-lagged            
        
        
            
                Bruno Pin: a lifetime of sharing knowledge            
        
        
            
                Ready, set, infect!