CC-BY: Unsplash Today, more than a third of the world’s population uses the Internet, and this number continues to grow. It is difficult to imagine any field of human activity that has not been penetrated by the Internet: endless sources of information, digitized maps and books, social networks, online...
Abstract Eighth graders were asked to investigate how the speed of a falling body depends on the height from which the body is dropped. As a body, paper muffin baskets had to be used and dropped from different, relatively small heights, and the falling time measured. For more accurate...
My childhood dream of travelling to the stars does not seem quite so impossible anymore. Wondering what lies beyond the clouds and hoping to explore beyond the boundaries of our planet is a reality for our pupils. The challenge is how to convince them that the lessons learned in...
We live and work under unusual circumstances in the last months and a new setting in education is required. All schools are closed and our classrooms have moved to our homes. We all need to adapt to it. It is not realistic at the moment to expect the usual...
During the last six weeks all the educational system in my country, Israel, is on quarantine. Schools are closed, but the teaching-learning processes are ongoing through online classes. For me, like probably most teachers, it is a challenging period. I work as a STEM teacher at a school and...
Student engagement is an important indicator measuring students’ performance and learning process, and largely determines what they have accumulated from their classes overall. It is also one of the most important sources of feedback for teachers reflecting the results of their practice, but also highly relevant for researchers, curriculum...
In a society that is characterized by complexity, globalization and technological innovation, schools have a great responsibility. While employers demand flexibility, creativity and the ability to learn independently and continuously from their employees, students have difficulty staying focused in school. Let’s discover possible solutions! Today’s students find it difficult...
The European Geosciences Union’s (EGU) Committee on Education has been organizing the Geosciences Information for Teachers (GIFT) workshops since 2003. Selected top-level scientists working in the Earth sciences offer invited teachers talks centered on a different theme every year. This year, the workshop was organised between the 8-10 of...
Why STEM? In the United States the first changes seen in school occurred after President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, later updated under the Obama legislation in 2015. The focus is now on a new method of student training in order to guarantee greater...
On 14-15 June 2018, Scientix participated in the final conference of the PERFORM project, a project on integrating science and performing arts, in Paris. PERFORM is a project funded under the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union, aiming to bring innovation into science education through performing arts. The...