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European countries produce more than half of the world’s wine – and drink a lot of it too! These hands-on activities for schools reveal the science behind the perfect wine.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
There are a number of reasons why you might not want to read this review: perhaps you do not teach chemistry, you are resisting the use of video clips in your teaching, or you are looking for non-English teaching materials. These are not good reasons though, as you will see. I challenge you to…
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“If we don’t protect our environment, we won’t have one,” say Carolina, 13, from Portugal.
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The Catalan primary school El Roure Gros has a unique concept: all learning is done through experimentation and investigation. Science on Stage Germany invited eight teachers from Austria, Germany and Italy to visit the school.
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Biologist Juliana Machado Ferreira is using science to combat wildlife traffickers in Brazil.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
What links your jeans, sea snails, woad plants and the Egyptian royal family? It’s the dye, indigo. Learn about its fascinating history and how you can extract it at school.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Finding out what is going on in the core of a fusion experiment at 100 million degrees Celsius is no easy matter, but there are clever ways to work it out.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
From a homemade thermometer to knitting needles that grow: here are some simple but fun experiments for primary-school pupils to investigate what happens to solids, liquids and gases when we heat them.
Ages: <11, 11-14;
In the third article in this series on astronomy and the electromagnetic spectrum, learn about the exotic and powerful cosmic phenomena that astronomers investigate with X-ray and gamma-ray observatories, including the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL missions.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest inter-governmental scientific research organisations. This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROforum members (EIROs).
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Analysing wine at school
Topics: Chemistry, General science
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The Periodic Table of Videos website, by the University of Nottingham, UK
Topics: Resources
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In a class of their own: lessons in energy and education from European schools
Topics: Resources
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Learning through investigation: Science on Stage visit to El Roure Gros primary school
Topics: Events
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Cracking down on wildlife trafficking
Topics: Biology, General science
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Indigo: recreating Pharaoh’s dye
Topics: Chemistry, General science
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Seeing the light: monitoring fusion experiments
Topics: Physics, General science, Chemistry, Engineering
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The effect of heat: simple experiments with solids, liquids and gases
Topics: Physics, General science
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More than meets the eye: the exotic, high-energy Universe
Topics: Physics, General science, Astronomy / space
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Bigger, faster, hotter
Topics: News from the EIROs, Physics, Biology, Astronomy / space, Engineering
