English, Science education projects
Smoke is in the air: how fireworks affect air quality
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Did you realise that fireworks cause measurable air pollution? Tim Harrison and Dudley Shallcross from Bristol University, UK, explain how to investigate atmospheric pollutants in class. |
Smell like Julius Caesar: recreating ancient perfumes in the laboratory
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Even everyday scents have the power to take us back in time, awakening half-forgotten memories. With Gianluca Farusi’s help, you can take your students 2000 years into the past, recreating and testing Julius Caesar’s perfume. |
A clean green sweep: an aquatic bioremediation project
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Vered Yephlach-Wiskerman introduces a classroom project to investigate the bioremediation powers of the aquatic fern Azolla. |
Going wild: teaching physics on a roller coaster
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Roller coasters, carousels and other amusement park rides can be great fun – and can even be used as a science lesson, as Giovanni Pezzi explains. |
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Moja Island: learning about renewable energy sources
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Renewable energy is not only important in the developed world; in developing countries, it may be a prerequisite to overcoming poverty. Marlene Rau introduces a teaching activity from Practical Action. |
Building a space habitat in the classroom
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What does it take to live on the Moon or even Mars? Erin Tranfield suggests an interdisciplinary teaching activity to get your students thinking about this – and learning a lot of science along the way. |
The heat is on: heating food and drinks with chemical energy
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Have you ever longed for a hot drink or meal but had no fire or stove to hand? Marlene Rau presents two activities from the Lebensnaher Chemieunterricht portal that use chemical reactions to heat food – and to introduce the topic of exothermic reactions. |
Biomimetics: clingy as an octopus or slick as a lotus leaf?
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Astrid Wonisch, Margit Delefant and Marlene Rau present two activities developed by the Austrian project ‘Naturwissenschaft und Technik zum Angreifen’ to investigate how technology is inspired by nature.
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School experiments at the nanoscale
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Eleanor Hayes highlights some education resources about the nanoscale and nanotechnology. |
Stage lights: physics and drama
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Imagine sending music across the room by laser. Sounds impossible, doesn’t it? But Alessio Bernardelli’s students did just that – and then developed a play to explain the science behind it. Here’s how to do it. |
