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Karen Bultitude introduces a set of simple, fun and memorable demonstrations using everyday ingredients to explain meteorological phenomena.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Studying permafrost enables us to look not only into the past, but also into the future. Miguel Ángel de Pablo, Miguel Ramos, Gonçalo Vieira and Antonio Molina explain.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Climate change is nothing new. Caitlin Sedwick describes how a computer model is helping scientists to explain the extinction of the woolly mammoth.
Ages: 16-19;
Welcome to the Science in School Advent calendar, packed with inspiring teaching ideas for Christmas, winter and the end of term.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Sue Johnson from the Institute of Education, London University, UK, introduces the Plant Scientists Investigate project, and presents three plant-related activities for primary-school children. Compare the carbon dioxide concentrations of inhaled and exhaled air, visualise your own oxygen…
Ages: <11;
As Head Conservator at the National Trust, Katy Lithgow’s education turned her into ‘more an arts person’ than a scientist – but her work has shown how the two can be inextricably linked. Vienna Leigh finds out how.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Act now for the Sustainable Development Goals: explore resources developed by European teachers bring the science of sustainability into the classroom.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Biology, maths, and the SDGs: estimate the CO2 absorbed by a tree in the schoolyard and compare it to the CO2 emissions of a short-haul flight.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Earthquakes, global climate or the placement of wind farms – with the help of geographic information systems, these can all be investigated dynamically in the classroom. Joseph Kerski describes how.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Aeolus – a new laser-equipped satellite – is designed to give meteorologists the comprehensive wind data they need for better weather forecasting.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
| Issue 11
Take the weather with you
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
| Issue 22
Revealing the secrets of permafrost
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space, Earth science, Engineering
| Issue 9
What killed the woolly mammoth?
Topics: Biology, Earth science
| Issue 25
Advent calendar 2012
Topics: Resources
| Issue 10
Planting ideas: climate-change activities for primary school
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 12
The science of preserving art
Topics: Profiles
| Issue 66
Sustainability in the classroom: teaching materials from Science on Stage
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Earth science, General science, Physics, Science and society, Sustainability
| Issue 67
How much carbon is locked in that tree?
Topics: Earth science, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Science and society, Sustainability
| Issue 15
GIS: analysing the world in 3D
Topics: Earth science
| Issue 46
Forecasts from orbit
Topics: News from the EIROs, Astronomy / space, Earth science, Engineering
