The students work for Best Britain Breaks and they are going to present one of the many wonderful destinations in the UK for a selected group of Belgian tourists. They work in pairs. In their Best Britain Breaks episode they should provide the following information: How to get there from Brussels The location of the Full Article…
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Maths History
Ever had students who wondered why we always use the x as the unknown? Here’s the answer on video. It’s just a nice lesson starter or something to end a lesson with. Maybe this is the chance to go and look for some other maths history? A great website is this one: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk Lots of things to Full Article…
Music in the chemistry lesson
Mark Rosengarten has recorded a lot of chemistry tutorials and songs. My chemistry colleague’s favourite is the song “It’s a family thing”, a song that covers a list of organic molecules. She used it in the classroom at the end of the lesson and gave her students the link to use the song as a Full Article…
Real-time calculations, statistics and facts.
My Life in Numbers displays real-time calculations using interesting statistics, fun facts and fascinating numbers. The website measures all sorts of events in many different ways. For example the amount of Google searches since the beginning of the day or since the beginning of 2013 or the amount of breaths an average person has taken since Full Article…
Graph Reading
A few weeks ago I gave students (18+) this graph on a test: In this graph the evolution of births in Belgium (between 1830-2008) is given. Among other questions I asked them if they could explain the two low points (nadirs) in the graph. Very few students succeeded in giving some sort of acceptable explanation. Full Article…
The Axon Game
Wellcome Trust has collected and designed lots of interesting biomedical resources. Among them there is an interesting ‘brain’ game called “the axon”. In this game you have to grow a neuron as long as possible. In the end, when you “lose” the game they tell you what kind of neuron you’ve grown. They then give Full Article…
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