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Herbi Dreiner and Tobias Strehlau describe how a university physics show inspired a secondary-school teacher and his students to perform their own school physics show. Why not try it in your school?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
An enormous meteorite impact and then a rocky flight from Mars. Is that how life appeared on Earth? Cornelia Meyer takes us on a space trip through the lithopanspermia theory and describes how she is putting it to the test with the help of student colleagues.
Ages: 16-19;
Fred Engelbrecht and Thomas Wendt from the ExploHeidelberg Teaching Lab describe some experiments on sugar detection to demonstrate the problems that people with diabetes face every day.
Ages: 16-19;
Why not get your students to make their own predictions of climate change – with the help of Dudley Shallcross and Tim Harrison from Bristol University, UK?
Ages: 16-19;
Ken Gadd and Luca Szalay introduce a procedure used in industry – and adapted for school students – to measure the citric acid level in chewing gum.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Because of its low alcohol content, ginger ‘beer’ is a popular drink with British children. Dean Madden from the National Centre for Biotechnology Education, University of Reading, UK, gives his recipe for introducing younger students to the principles of fermentation, food hygiene and the…
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
The StandardBase project has produced 72 standard analytical procedures used in industry and adapted for use by students in schools and colleges via the Internet. Ken Gadd and Luca Szalay explain the goals and the use of StandardBase products.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
David Featonby, from the UK, presents some simple demonstrations to get your students thinking about scientific principles.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Catch them young! Alex Griffin, Tim Harrison and Dudley Shallcross from the University of Bristol, UK, show how important it is to interest young children in science – and how much fun it can be!
Ages: <11;
Srdjan Verbic tells the story of the Petnica Science Center, which brings enthusiastic students (and teachers) from across Europe to a village in Serbia, where together they discover the joy and fascination of science.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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Fun physics in school: students perform for students
Topics: Physics
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Is there anybody out there? An ark of life
Topics: Biology, Astronomy / space
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Detecting sugar: an everyday problem when facing diabetes
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Health
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Climate change modelling in the classroom
Topics: Physics, Earth science, Mathematics
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Chewing flavours
Topics: Chemistry
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Ginger beer: a traditional fermented low-alcohol drink
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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StandardBase: a Leonardo da Vinci pilot project for practical education and training in chemistry
Topics: Chemistry
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What happens next? A teaching strategy to get students of all ages talking
Topics: Physics, General science
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Primary circuses of experiments
Topics: Chemistry
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Learning through research: a Serbian tradition
Topics: General science
