‘Courses for students’ Archive

It’s all fun & games

If you are a teacher, you know that loads of your students enjoy playing computer games… Do you ever use them as a starter for a discussion?  Games are great because as well as being an engaging and fun hook for a topic, they can supply enough information for your students to form an opinion [...]

Students get creative with Rat-brained robot

Students Talk Science @ The Science Museum Last Friday over 40 KS3 and 4 students took part in our ever popular News+Views Activity. Scientist Mark Hammond from Reading University joined us along with Gordon the Rat-brained robot. Gordon is a very special robot. Controlled by a dish full of rats’ brain cells, he’s helping scientists [...]

Special event: Science in the news

Get your students to be science journalists for a day! The Talk Science team is running sessions of our News + Views activity as part of the Creative Quarter events on the 13 November. It’s an activity that will get them talking with experts, writing bite-sized text, backing up opinions with evidence and creating their own science news display. [...]