Using humour in your teaching can help you engage your students- that’s nothing new. But what about LITERALLY using humour? Check out my favourite (frankly, awful) selection of science jokes below… -Biology is the only science in which multiplication is the same thing as division. -Did you hear about the famous microbiologist who traveled in thirty different [...]
Powerful images can be great stimuli to use in the classroom- they can hook in students, generate opinions and help give them some knowledge to bring to a discussion. Some great galleries to find strong scientific pictures are Wellcome images, Science photo library and galleries like Popsci’s most amazing science images. On a different level, you [...]
There is much excitement in Talk Science team this week- Futurecade launches this Thursday! Futurecade is a suite of online games based on current and developing research in the fields of robotics, space junk, geo-engineering and synthetic biology. Most importantly, Futurecade’s four games Bacto-Lab, Robo-Lobster, Cloud Control and Space Junker, are designed to be fun to play- so [...]
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the object below looks a bit boring. It is, in fact, an actual piece of the M1, cored by the Transport Research Laboratory. Everyone knows the M1 as the backbone of Britain, but who likes it? Very few I suspect. Although, where would we be without motorways? Probably not [...]
Planning a discussion about biofuels? The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has a set of teaching resources you can use if you are getting your students to explore the topic. They have actually split the material up into 2 lessons’ worth: one where your students familiarise themselves with various forms of biofuel, and the second which [...]
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 [...]
Short films are a great way of providing your students with some knowledge to bring into a discussion, or helping them formulate an opinion on an issue. We do love films… And we love the Punk Science boys- our home-grown rambunctious science comedians. So we have put the two together. We now have two new Punk Science [...]
Many of us have heard about how cattle production contributes more to greenhouse emissions than cars, but have you ever wondered just how they calculate a cow’s emissions? I have, so I will share what I came across today. The inflatable tank on the cow’s back is connected directly to the cow’s first stomach through holes in its ribs! [...]
Could a single drop of your saliva tell you if you are prone to genetically inherited diseases? Well this could soon be a reality according to scientists at Edinburgh University. They are developing a quick and cheap swab test to analyse your DNA. the Results could tell you if you were healthly, likely to develop a disease or diagonse conditions [...]
‘Would you wear second hand pants to save the Earth?’ How do you get your students interested in discussing a topic? Well one simple technique to hook them is to ask a powerful question. The Talk Science team have devised an easy way to come up with great questions that link what your students are interested [...]
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