Designing a school: taking science out of the classroom
How can the architecture of a school influence its teaching? Allan Andersen, head teacher of Copenhagen’s Ørestad Gymnasium, tells Adam Gristwood and Eleanor Hayes.
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How can the architecture of a school influence its teaching? Allan Andersen, head teacher of Copenhagen’s Ørestad Gymnasium, tells Adam Gristwood and Eleanor Hayes.
Who Cloned my Cat? Fun Adventures in Biotechnology is a collection of two-page articles that briefly describe discoveries from the field of biotechnology.
The question that astronauts are most frequently asked is ‘How do you go to the toilet in space?’ This rather puts the cart before the horse because the next most popular questions concern the other end of the alimentary canal: ‘How do you eat in space?’, ‘What does the food taste like up…
Campus Berlin-Buch is a science, health and biotechnology park in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on biomedicine.
TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a non-profit organisation that began as a conference to share “ideas worth spreading”. The first of its annual conferences was held in 1984 and since then, the programme has spread to include regional and local events across the world (see the…
Have you ever wondered how best to make students aware of the issues surrounding our current fossil-fuel-intensive lifestyle? After all, they stand a good chance of seeing fossil fuels perhaps not run out but become unaffordable in their lifetime.
For someone interested in learning about obesity, Globesity: A planet out of control? is an excellent book to start with and, unless preparing for a doctorate thesis, possibly to finish with.
The Rough Guide to the Brain is a thoroughly readable, interesting and informative book.
2010-2011 State of the Wild: A Global Portrait describes the present state of wildlife and wild places, detailing developments in conservation and examining environmental issues around the world.
The Ask a Biologist website is dedicated to answering questions on all aspects of biology. Although aimed primarily at school students of all ages, questions are accepted from anyone, whatever their age, including teachers.
Designing a school: taking science out of the classroom
Who Cloned my Cat? Fun Adventures in Biotechnology, by Reinhard Renneberg
The Astronaut’s Cookbook: Tales, Recipes, and More, by Charles T Bourland and Gregory L Vogt
Translations – from today’s science to tomorrow’s medicine in Berlin-Buch, by Russ Hodge
The Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) website
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air, by David MacKay
Globesity: A planet out of control? By Francis Delpeuch, Bernard Maire, Emmanuel Monnier and Michelle Holdsworth
The Rough Guide to the Brain, by Barry J Gibb
2010-2011 State of the Wild: A Global Portrait, By the Wildlife Conservation Society
Ask a Biologist website