Science centres working with schools: using peer-to-peer teaching to engage students
Sheena Laursen from Experimentarium in Denmark describes how the centre’s Xciter project helps students motivate each other to delve deeper into science.
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Sheena Laursen from Experimentarium in Denmark describes how the centre’s Xciter project helps students motivate each other to delve deeper into science.
Have you ever wondered what bioinformatics is? Or what a bioinformatician does? Sai Pathmanathan and Eleanor Hayes talk to Nicky Mulder, a bioinformatician at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK.
In Issue 4, we challenged you and your students to design the cover for Science in School and were very impressed by the quality of the entries. Despite gloomy studies about decreasing interest in the sciences, there are clearly a lot of very enthusiastic and artistically gifted young scientists in…
Are there days when you long to get right away from the classroom? How far would you be willing to go? Eleanor Hayes talks to Phil Avery, one of four teachers who are taking a break from school to journey to the Antarctic.
To clone or not to clone? That is the question that the book A Clone of Your Own? sets out to investigate.
ChemMatters is an award-winning magazine published quarterly by the American Chemical Society for secondary-school students.
“If you are not interested in how evolution came about, and cannot conceive how anyone could be seriously concerned about anything other than human affairs, then do not read it: it will only make you needlessly angry,” wrote John Maynard Smith about The Selfish Gene.
Peter Rebernik from the WONDERS project describes a ride in the Carousel of Science from Moscow to Lisbon, Reykjavik to Jerusalem. Perhaps even in your town!
At Science on Stage 2, the European Science Teaching Awards 2007 were presented for the 12 best projects. Eleanor Hayes, editor of Science in School, describes how the jury made their difficult decisions
Science on Stage 2 took place during the first week of April and brought together some of the best science teachers in Europe. Montserrat Capellas describes some memorable moments.
Science centres working with schools: using peer-to-peer teaching to engage students
Nicky Mulder, bioinformatician
Results of the cover competition
Teaching on ice: an educational expedition to Antarctica
A Clone of Your Own?, By Arlene Judith Klotzko
ChemMatters CD-ROM
The Selfish Gene and Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think, By Richard Dawkins
Second European Science Festival: WONDERS 2007
Awards, rewards – and onwards!
Science teaching flies high at Science on Stage 2