Travel back to ancient Rome, test the calcium content of a gladiator recovery drink and compare it to today’s milk and sports drinks. History has never tasted this real!
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19; Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Health, Science and society
How to teach radioactive decay and radioisotopes to students who feel that equations are boring? Here are two inexpensive and captivating activities to apply in your classroom!
Written in the stars: use microcontrollers and LEDs to model stellar life cycles, scaling billions of years into minutes while exploring stellar evolution.
Safety first: nuclear decay and ionizing radiation can be safely studied in the physics classroom using the common baking ingredient potassium carbonate.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19; Topics: Chemistry, Earth science, General science, Physics
Try a project that blends chemistry, art, and peer learning, as secondary school students teach younger students how to create nature-inspired cyanotype prints.
