English, Science
Meeting the next generation of scientists: the European Union Contest for Young Scientists
By Estelle Mossou, ILL
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As young scientists from across Europe gathered in Bratislava to exhibit their projects, find out what impressed the jury most. |
Welcome to the twenty-sixth issue of SIS
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As I write this editorial, the bare tree branches outside my office are outlined in snow and the ground is dangerously icy. However, by the time this issue of Science in School has been copy edited, laid out, proofread, printed and distributed, those bare branches will be sprouting young leaves and the first flowers will be blooming below. |
Welcome to the twenty-fifth issue of Science in School
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The print copy of this issue of Science in School has a mass of nearly a quarter of a kilogram. But do you know how a kilogram is defined? And did you know that the definition of a kilogram may be about to change, with the help of CERN? |
Science in the open: bringing the Stone Age to life for primary-school pupils
By Petra Breuer-Küppers
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Taking pupils out of the classroom opens up a whole range of activities for teaching young children about the natural world. |
Exploring scientific research articles in the classroom
By Miriam Ossevoort, Marcel Koeneman and Martin Goedhart
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Learn how to use research articles in your science lessons. |
Analysing wine at school
By David Lewis
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European countries produce more than half of the world’s wine – and drink a lot of it too! These hands-on activities for schools reveal the science behind the perfect wine. |
In a class of their own: lessons in energy and education from European schools
By European Schoolnet
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How far would you be willing to go to raise awareness amongst staff and students at your school of the need for sustainable energy? |
Cracking down on wildlife trafficking
By Nina Notman
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Biologist Juliana Machado Ferreira is using science to combat wildlife traffickers in Brazil. |
Indigo: recreating Pharaoh’s dye
By Gianluca Farusi
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What links your jeans, sea snails, woad plants and the Egyptian royal family? It’s the dye, indigo. Learn about its fascinating history and how you can extract it at school. |
Seeing the light: monitoring fusion experiments
By Phil Dooley, EFDA-JET
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Finding out what is going on in the core of a fusion experiment at 100 million degrees Celsius is no easy matter, but there are clever ways to work it out. |
