Blue Schools in practice: how European classrooms explore water and ocean challenges
What does becoming a Blue School look like? Three European projects show how students investigate water and ocean issues.
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The Science in School Student Writing Contest 2026 is open!
To mark Science in School ’s 20th anniversary, we are launching a student writing competition inviting young people to explore the topic of sustainable and resilient tourism. All details below are also available in our downloadable and printable flyer. What is it about? 2027 is set to be the…
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Girls Go STEM: teachers shaping girls’ STEM journeys
Teachers are central to any effort to get more girls interested in STEM. Yet supporting them often comes second to supporting the students.
Teaching science with cartoons from the Zagreb School of Animation
Cartoons are fun to watch but can also help inspire students and enhance their understanding of science. Here’s how to do that with some classics of European animation.
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Biomimetics: clingy as an octopus or slick as a lotus leaf?
Astrid Wonisch, Margit Delefant and Marlene Rau present two activities developed by the Austrian project ‘Naturwissenschaft und Technik zum…
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Teaching in the Ukraine: Halyna Yagenska
Halyna Yagenska tells Sai Pathmanathan about teaching in the…
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You’re researching what? Toothpaste?
Linda Sellou, a French PhD student at Bristol University, UK, tells Sai Pathmanathan, a science education journalist, what she thought of her school…
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TIMEPIX@school call for proposals 2026
The call for proposals 2026 for the CERN TIMEPIX@school programme is now open! TIMEPIX@school is a new CERN-led initiative supported through the CERN & Society Foundation that brings Timepix-based detectors, developed within the CERN Medipix2 Collaboration, into classrooms worldwide. Launched…
The 13th International Symposium on Microscale Chemistry
July 8th- 10th, St Pauls School, London I hope you have enjoyed the microscale chemistry articles that Adrian Allan and I presented in issues, 53, 54,57, 60, 65, and 69. If you are teaching chemistry do have a look at them. Other authors have also submitted ideas in issues 16 and 39. It is a…
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