A useful insight from US on STEM in Postsecondary Education, useful also for comparison with EU. Enjoy it!
Junior Architect
www.homestyler.com is a great piece of software for budding architects. Learners can create their own dream home or redesign their current home/bedroom using an easy drag & drop menu . Teachers are able to assess how well learners use their design skills whilst solving technical and practical problems. This is a design package that I Full Article…
Egg in a bottle
You can use a variety of Web 2.0 tools such as Animoto, YouTube, or any other video-sharing sites which allows you to use with subtitles (such as Windows Movie maker or PhotoStory) to record experiments, such as the one above.
The great science movie
Description This is a team activity that runs over a semester. The goal is to make a movie where all the main topics or concepts of the subject are covered so it can be used as a good revision tool for studying for an exam. Every group has to make a short movie with an Full Article…
10 days of…math tweets
Description An idea for using twitter to crowd source answers to mathematical questions. In a period of ten days you can ask each student to tweet one question relating to maths or science. The content of the tweet should be a picture (taken somewhere in the student’s neighbourhood) with a question. This way you can Full Article…
Investigating and acting on local environmental problems
Age: 12-15 years In this lesson, centered on environment and sustainability, students must identify, discuss and act on environmental issues that exist in the school area or in the places where they live. The seriousness of the environmental issues affecting our society needs citizens that are well informed and empowered to take appropriate actions about Full Article…