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…
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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…
Want to play some Mendeleev?
Five minutes left in the chemistry lesson and no point in starting a new topic? Here you can find a nice interactive game on the periodic table. You can play it on the interactive whiteboard. Ask 2 students to come up to the board and if one of them makes a mistake, ask somebody else Full Article…
SimSound Game
A colleague of mine used the SimSound game (http://www.iop.org/education/teacher/resources/sim/page_41572.html) as an assignment spread out over one month. SimSound is an engaging multimedia game for 11-16 year olds that aims to use the context of music recording to introduce a range of concepts about waves. There are four Sim sound challenges: Fix the guitar riff – Full Article…
Periodic table of QR codes
What about a Periodic Table of QR codes for your classroom? Brady Haran fromPeriodic Videos, has created a periodic table with QR codes in place of the elements. Each QR code takes you to a video about the appropriate element.
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