The infinite possibilities of science Science and technology are broad terms. While most people imagine that the job of a scientist boils down to wearing a lab coat and looking at things through a microscope, there is a lot more to it than that, and the job itself can...
In the science field, countless individuals devoted their lives to their research so that future generations could benefit from their work. Many of these individuals faced hardships, whether it was financial, lack of formal education, or the lack of gender or racial diversity in their field, but they continued...
STEM are often disciplines difficult to study and understand for young learners because they require effort and the activation of particular areas of the brain, such as the frontal lobe, which control the ability to make decisions and reasoning and develop from pre-school to even at the age of...
My experience has thought me that there are numerous reasons why technology is a key aspect of the learning process in the 21st Century – known as the Information age. I believe we can list the topics related to technology importance in education as it follows: 1. For students:...
“Change Point” team, 3rd B Scientific Lyceum, IIS “Fermi” Alghero, won the ASOC competition on 10thJune 2020 representing the Sardinia region.
Nowadays space exploration has gained a lot of attention all over the world. Therefore, in my opinion, the required human resources on this subject should be raised especially from an early age and the approaches of the education system should be organized accordingly. My group of students in this...
The Lab 0_6: Discovery, Research and Documentation Centre for Science Education in Early Childhood is a Free-choice Science space addressed to children from 0-6 years old and their families. We are located in the university premises of UManresa (a Campus from Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya) and have...
In Italy, as in most parts of the world, schools were closed because of coronavirus pandemic. Teachers started DAD (distance learning) in March and never stopped till the school year ended. Distance learning was a hard and challenging experience. For a STEM teacher is quite impossible to teach without...
During the last year, a group of students for the Candás secondary school (Asturies, Spain) was working in the design, construction and testing their first “school space mission”, consisting in launching a high altitude balloon to the near-space from the Antonio García Bellido secondary school (León, Spain). The project...
We are teachers who would like to talk about our distance teaching experience and good practices while building a virtual garden. We teach sixteen-year-old students from Human Science at Lyceum. We, as teachers, notwithstanding the Coronavirus isolation, have been trying to keep in touch with reality and challenge ourselves...