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Exponential growth has become part of daily life during the COVID-19 pandemic. These simple exercises help explain this tricky concept
Ages: 11-14;
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on exponential growth. This provides an opportunity to teach this tricky concept in a real-world context.
Ages: 14-16;
The rush to find treatments for COVID-19 led to a badly flawed clinical trial influencing medical treatment worldwide. What went wrong?
Have fun with fruit while helping your students to explore the concepts of area and volume, and learn more about their real-world applications.
Ages: under 11, 11-14;
Do you find the binary system complicated? With this activity, your students will find it as easy as 01,10,11.
Ages: 11-14;
Explore phase transitions between different states of matter through a series of engaging hands-on experiments.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16;
How do scientists piece together genomic information from sequencing data? Play these two fun online puzzles to find out.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Your mission: to land an intrepid egg-naut safely on the surface of the Moon and learn about classical mechanics along the way.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
How do discoveries happen in science? Despite popular stories of ‘eureka moments’, the reality is usually much more complex.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Scientists often need to communicate their subject to non-experts, such as policymakers and the public. This absorbing structured activity challenges school students to do the same.
June 18, 2021 | Issue 53
Exponential growth 1: learn the basics from confetti to understand pandemics
Topics: Health, Science and society, Mathematics
English
| Issue 53
Exponential growth 2: real-life lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Topics: Health, Science and society, Mathematics
English
March 22, 2021 | Issue 52
Clinical trials count on more than statistics
| Issue 52
Maths with fruit
Topics: Mathematics, Teach, General science
English 
Español
March 18, 2021 | Issue 52
Teaching binary code with a secret word challenge
Topics: Engineering, Science and society, Mathematics
English Español
January 15, 2021 | Issue 51
States of matter & phase transitions
Topics: Physics, General science
Deutsch English 
Nederlands 
Albanian
January 2, 2021 | Issue 51
Microbial genome puzzles
Topics: Biology, Mathematics, Teach
English 
Français
December 24, 2020 | Issue 51
Landing on the Moon – planning and designing a lunar lander
Topics: Physics, Engineering, Mathematics, Teach, Astronomy / space
Dansk English 
Italiano
June 2, 2020 | Issue 50
Discovery and controversy: stories from the chemical elements
Topics: Chemistry, General science
Ελληνικα English Español Français Italiano
March 17, 2020 | Issue 50
Tell me about it: adventures in science communication
