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Pongprapan Pongsophon, Vantipa Roadrangka and Alison Campbell from Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, demonstrate how a difficult concept in evolution can be explained with equipment as simple as a box of buttons!
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
An art teacher with a science degree? Karen Findlay put this unusual combination to good use with an ambitious film project.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
One of the many purposes of science is to support the humanities. With this in mind, Gianluca Farusi and his students set out to investigate and prepare iron-gall ink, a historically significant material for the transmission of knowledge.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Ever wished you could borrow a PCR machine for your lessons? And perhaps an expert to show your students how to use it? Marc van Mil introduces DNA labs that bring genomics directly to the classroom.
Ages: 16-19;
Elisabeth Schepers from the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, introduces a school programme linking climate change and the future of traffic technology.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Caroline Molyneux, from Balshaw’s Church of England High School, UK, explains how she kick-starts her classes and helps her students remember certain lessons, facts or concepts.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Fed up with explaining genomes, genes and proteins? Why not get your students to figure it out for themselves using Johan Leveau’s DNA puzzle?
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Germany, like many other European countries, has difficulties attracting women into science. Diana Schimke from the University of Ulm, is working improve matters by putting schoolgirls directly in contact with women scientists.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Take a CD and a cereal box, and what do you have? With a little help from Mark Tiele Westra, your very own spectrometer! Time to explore the delights of colour, hidden in the most prosaic of objects.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Teaching science in the classroom is all very well, but wouldn’t it be wonderful to let your students learn for themselves what it’s really like to work in a research laboratory? Sooike Stoops from the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium, describes a project that does just…
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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Counting Buttons: demonstrating the Hardy-Weinberg principle
Topics: Biology
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The Boy Who Would Be Good: understanding ADHD through a film-making project
Topics: Health
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Monastic ink: linking chemistry and history
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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DNA labs on the road
Topics: Biology, Health
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Travel wisely: the globe is warming!
Topics: Earth science, General science
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Using music in the science classroom
Topics: Science and society, General science
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Fun with genomes: the Mycomuncher DNA Puzzle
Topics: Biology
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CyberMentor: e-mentoring to strengthen interest and participation of girls in STEM
Topics: Science and society, General science
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A fresh look at light: build your own spectrometer
Topics: Physics
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Scientists@work
Topics: Biology, General science
