Articles

Issue 24

Analysing wine at school

​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.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Chemistry, General science
           

The Periodic Table of Videos website, by the University of Nottingham, UK

There are a number of reasons why you might not want to read this review: perhaps you do not teach chemistry, you are resisting the use of video clips in your teaching, or you are looking for non-English teaching materials. These are not good reasons though, as you will see. I challenge you to…

Ages: not applicable;
Topics: Resources

In a class of their own: lessons in energy and education from European schools

“If we don’t protect our environment, we won’t have one,” say Carolina, 13, from Portugal.

Ages: not applicable;
Topics: Resources
     

Learning through investigation: Science on Stage visit to El Roure Gros primary school

The Catalan primary school El Roure Gros has a unique concept: all learning is done through experimentation and investigation. Science on Stage Germany invited eight teachers from Austria, Germany and Italy to visit the school.

Ages: not applicable;
Topics: Events

Cracking down on wildlife trafficking

Biologist Juliana Machado Ferreira is using science to combat wildlife traffickers in Brazil.

Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Biology, General science
         

Indigo: recreating Pharaoh’s dye

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.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Chemistry, General science
                 

Seeing the light: monitoring fusion experiments

​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.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Physics, General science, Chemistry, Engineering
         

The effect of heat: simple experiments with solids, liquids and gases

From a homemade thermometer to knitting needles that grow: here are some simple but fun experiments for primary-school pupils to investigate what happens to solids, liquids and gases when we heat them.

Ages: <11, 11-14;
Topics: Physics, General science
         

More than meets the eye: the exotic, high-energy Universe

​In the third article in this series on astronomy and the electromagnetic spectrum, learn about the exotic and powerful cosmic phenomena that astronomers investigate with X-ray and gamma-ray observatories, including the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL missions.

Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Physics, General science, Astronomy / space