Science centres working with schools: using peer-to-peer teaching to engage students
Sheena Laursen from Experimentarium in Denmark describes how the centre’s Xciter project helps students motivate each other to delve deeper into science.
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Sheena Laursen from Experimentarium in Denmark describes how the centre’s Xciter project helps students motivate each other to delve deeper into science.
Have you ever wondered what bioinformatics is? Or what a bioinformatician does? Sai Pathmanathan and Eleanor Hayes talk to Nicky Mulder, a bioinformatician at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK.
Pongprapan Pongsophon, Vantipa Roadrangka and Alison Campbell from Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, demonstrate how a difficult concept in evolution can be explained with equipment as simple as a box of buttons!
An art teacher with a science degree? Karen Findlay put this unusual combination to good use with an ambitious film project.
One of the many purposes of science is to support the humanities. With this in mind, Gianluca Farusi and his students set out to investigate and prepare iron-gall ink, a historically significant material for the transmission of knowledge.
Péter Székely from the University of Szeged, Hungary, and Örs Benedekfi from the European Fusion Development Agreement in Garching, Germany, investigate how a star dies and what a nearby supernova explosion would mean for us on Earth.
In Issue 4, we challenged you and your students to design the cover for Science in School and were very impressed by the quality of the entries. Despite gloomy studies about decreasing interest in the sciences, there are clearly a lot of very enthusiastic and artistically gifted young scientists in…
Marine ecologists Iris Hendriks, Carlos Duarte, and Carlo Heip ask why – despite its importance – research into marine biodiversity is so neglected.
ChemMatters is an award-winning magazine published quarterly by the American Chemical Society for secondary-school students.
Peter Rebernik from the WONDERS project describes a ride in the Carousel of Science from Moscow to Lisbon, Reykjavik to Jerusalem. Perhaps even in your town!
Science centres working with schools: using peer-to-peer teaching to engage students
Nicky Mulder, bioinformatician
Counting Buttons: demonstrating the Hardy-Weinberg principle
The Boy Who Would Be Good: understanding ADHD through a film-making project
Monastic ink: linking chemistry and history
Fusion in the Universe: when a giant star dies…
Results of the cover competition
Why biodiversity research keeps its feet dry
ChemMatters CD-ROM
Second European Science Festival: WONDERS 2007