There’s a great project on planetfour.org where you can contribute to some real-life Martian research! Follow the links and you get allocated a patch of Mars to explore and you can help the researchers by marking interesting features on the surface. Who knows, you might find something never seen before by human eyes! I can’t put it Full Article…
26 Great Sites for Physics Teachers
A useful collection with different resources (sites and lessons plans) could be found on this link: 26 Great Sites for Physics Teachers You can find also games, exercises etc.
Let’s animate
Age: 14 – 18 Goal: Pupils create gif-animations to visualize chemical processes. What you need: Enough computers Image editing tool (e.g. GIMP) Proceedings: 1. Introduction: Present a chemical phenomenon and give some basic information. GIMP-Tutorial (gif-animation) 2. Pupils’ task: Find out what’s behind that phenomenon. Break it down into its basic components. Visualize the process Full Article…
Fly, fly away
Age: 10 to 12 Goal: Find out about the flyway of the lesser spotted eagle using Google Earth. Description: The pupils should learn about the different landscapes the eagle crosses on its way and categories them. In addition to that they should learn how to use computer technology to gather and process data. What you need: 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…