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Do you have more than the average number of ears? Is your salary lower than average? When will the next bus arrive? Ben Parker attempts to convince us of the value of statistics – when used correctly.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Germany, like many other European countries, has difficulties attracting women into science. Diana Schimke from the University of Ulm, is working improve matters by putting schoolgirls directly in contact with women scientists.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
In Issue 3 of Science in School we invited you to join an international competition for school students and Catch a Star! Later, some of you helped to select winners by voting online for your favourite pictures. Douglas Pierce-Price from ESO reports on the results.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
In September 2006, after a pilot phase, a new national curriculum for science was introduced for students aged 14-16 in England and Wales. Jenifer Burden explains how the new curriculum seeks to address both the scientific needs of all citizens, and the additional needs of future scientists.
Ages: not applicable;
Do you or your students enjoy painting and drawing as well as teaching or learning science? Would you like to see your artwork reproduced 30,000 times and distributed across Europe? The Science in School cover competition gives you and your students the opportunity to do just that.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Did witches once soar through the night sky on broomsticks? Or were they hallucinating after eating or touching certain plants? Angelika Börsch-Haubold explains how modern pharmacology helps us to understand the action of many toxic plants – some of which are still used in medicine.
Ages: 16-19;
Linda Sellou, a French PhD student at Bristol University, UK, tells Sai Pathmanathan, a science education journalist, what she thought of her school science and what she’s up to now…
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Could spider silk be the answer to medical and military challenges? Giovanna Cicognani from the Institut Laue-Langevin and Montserrat Capellas from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France, investigate Christian Riekel and Tilo Seydel’s research into this remarkable material.
Ages: 16-19;
Take a CD and a cereal box, and what do you have? With a little help from Mark Tiele Westra, your very own spectrometer! Time to explore the delights of colour, hidden in the most prosaic of objects.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Teaching science in the classroom is all very well, but wouldn’t it be wonderful to let your students learn for themselves what it’s really like to work in a research laboratory? Sooike Stoops from the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium, describes a project that does just…
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
| Issue 5
Damn lies
Topics: Mathematics
| Issue 5
CyberMentor: e-mentoring to strengthen interest and participation of girls in STEM
Topics: Science and society, General science
| Issue 5
School students Catch a Star! in an astronomical competition
Topics: Events
| Issue 5
Twenty First Century Science: developing a new science curriculum
Topics: Profiles, Resources
| Issue 4
Design the cover for Science in School!
Topics: Events
| Issue 4
Plant hallucinogens as magical medicines
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 4
You’re researching what? Toothpaste?
Topics: Profiles
| Issue 4
Silken, stretchy and stronger than steel!
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 4
A fresh look at light: build your own spectrometer
Topics: Physics
| Issue 4
Scientists@work
Topics: Biology, General science
