Advent calendar 2010
Welcome to the Science in School advent calendar for 2010: a daily collection of scientific ideas and teaching activities related to Christmas, winter and the end of term.
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Welcome to the Science in School advent calendar for 2010: a daily collection of scientific ideas and teaching activities related to Christmas, winter and the end of term.
School children in India built their own digital microscope, bent light and investigated gas laws. Find out how.
Designing a glider wing helps students understand forces and what it means to be an engineer.
Try these hands-on activities to introduce your students to microplastics – a hazard for fish and other marine animals – and to our responsibilities to our environment.
A citizen science project travelled over 7000 km to explore the microbial population in students’ mouths.
Understanding Earth’s climate system can teach us about other planets.
Neuroscientist and stand-up comic Sophie Scott explains the complexity and social importance of laughter.
Theodore Alexandrov is taking what he learned from working on the economy and applying it to the chemicals on our skin.
How electrodes placed directly in the brain are teaching us about learning.
Wouldn’t it be great to live without fear? Or would it? Research is showing just how important fear can be.
Advent calendar 2010
Doing is understanding: science fun in India
High flyers: thinking like an engineer
Microplastics: small but deadly
A safari in your mouth’s microbial jungle
Planetary energy budgets
Learning from laughter
The mathematician who became a biologist
How neuroscience is helping us to understand attention and memory
An almost fearless brain