Distant student research projects and the values of science
It was a big challenge to engage with your learners in an on-line environment caused by a pandemic. As it is important to share the content of scientific topics it is as well important...
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You will find here suggestions of activities, sequences, tutorials and their materials to guide you or reproduce it easily in class or in training.
First international pandemic paper frog jump competition
The Spoon project is just one out of countless ERASMUS+ projects which was struck by the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic. We have gathered together the team from France, Netherlands, Spain and Croatia to explore how science...
The collection of “argumentative moulds” for competitions in bad faith
Also another useful resource, produced by CORTECS : “The collection of argumentative moulds for bad faith competitions”.The exercise consisted in identifying these mouldy arguments in documents such as scams and charlatanism. For example, we...
 Activity : Believe or not believe?
 We then worked with the resources of La Fondation la main à la pâte, the mother structure of the Maisons pour la science, which continues to work in the spirit of investigation taught...
The power of water
—-The power of water—- You can use scary material ! According to its authors, this sequence consists of setting up a water detection test protocol. It is deliberately poorly designed at the outset and...
Coronavirus: The barrier gestures. Why wash your hands?
We propose here an activity for elementary school students, extracted from the Fondation la main à la pâte resource kit https://www.fondation-lamap.org/fr/dossier-coronavirus. For la Fondation La main à la pâte, Elena Pasquinelli, Anne Bernard-Delorme, Mathieu Farina About...
The Office for Climate Education resources to teach about climate change
The Maison pour la science en Alsace is organizing with the OCE (Office for Climate Education) a cross-border event with schools on the theme of climate change. Four middle schools, including a German middle...
Apply what is learned, Your own investigation – The NASA case by Freek Pols
Learning goal: In this activity students learn to apply there knowledge gained during the previous activities in a more open independent science investigation. Learn more about the creator of the resource : https://www.tudelft.nl/en/education/programmes/bachelors/tn/bachelor-of-applied-physics/students-experiences/freek-pols...
The pirates investigation by Freek Pols
Carrying out a scientific investigation Learning goals In this activity students learn that investigations gain added value, is more useful when the data is collected using the best possible (scientific) collection method. If a...
The sweet bacteria of yoghurt
INTRODUCTION How many yogurts do you eat every day? What flavors? Do you know what yogurt is made from? Well, it’s easier than you think. You can make it yourself at home. WHAT DO...
VEGETABLE PAINTERS
INTRODUCTIONIn this challenge we talk about the colors that we can see in nature, the biological pigments. Biological pigments are substances produced by colored organisms. The reason these molecules have colors is the result...
The Swedish road service
Data collection, Repeat and reproduce Learning goals: In this activity students learn that it necessary to repeat measurements as there is a natural variation in the measurements which directly influences the quality of the...
Rice in a box
Spoon workshop proposal – teacher training proposed by the Croatian spooners Title: Research elements in classroom: STEM 2.0 – Stimulating, Team, Experimental and Motivating teaching Duration: 4 hr Number of participants: 20 Aims: Realize...
Fake news factory
Let’s make news, real and fake! Context : This activity was first created and tested for a team seminar at the House for Science. As part of the interdisciplinary autumn school on critical thinking,...
