Have you ever thought about the number of moons in our Solar System? Which moon is the largest? Are there any active volcanoes on any of them? Which gas is Titan’s atmosphere mostly comprised of? Your students can find out the answers to these questions, and much more spectacular...
Teaching space science in secondary school can be challenging, while on the other hand, students feel a special attraction towards hands-on activities; they find it empowering when causing a reaction in an experiment or suddenly grasping a science concept. It gives students confidence as learners and is, at the...
Image: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en Food – could you find a more relevant topic for every age group? We must eat to provide our bodies with nutrients and energy. People enjoy eating. The way we eat, from early childhood, influences our health for all our life. The food topic can be investigated...
Image taken from: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-aurora-named-steve Do you want your students to take a picture like this on their own? Do you want to arouse curiosity and interest in astronomy studies for all your students? If you answered yes to these questions, you should read the following article very carefully. Astronomy is...
Introduction “The real is less rich than the possible” /Ilya Prigogine/ The concept of sustainability was proposed for the first time by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987, which defined sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of...
Yes, you have probably heard a lot about inquiry-based learning and some of you might have even practiced it with your students. Rooted back to the 1960’s debates about the nature and aim of science education, this pedagogical method has been around for almost 30 years now, as a...
Introduction A hologram is a three-dimensional image of an object that we can almost grasp. Many students following videos on the Internet know how to make a holographic projector. In this article we want to use poor materials and technologies to create an interdisciplinary teaching activity on holograms that...
Virtual Reality is a novel way of teaching and is an effective one at that. With virtual reality, children not only learn their lessons but also enjoy the simulated real-world environments. What it means is, the students get to experience and visualize a complete 360-degree view of the lesson...