Here at the Science Museum we have noticed it’s summer outside the window (occasionally)… so the blog will be taking a break for a few weeks whilst we recharge our batteries! I will leave you with the new dates for the Talk Science course 2011-2012… The Talk Science course is all about running classroom discussions [...]
Have you ever visited the Antenna gallery at the Science Museum? It’s an ever-changing exhibition of science news and cutting edge research, where you can find out what’s bubbling and what’s buzzing, see some incredible objects (a dress made of thousands of paper cranes folded from the London Metro newspaper- how’s that for throwaway fashion?) [...]
Do scientists have all the answers? Many people like to think so. After all isn’t science meant to be the rational, evidence-based approach to explaining the way the world works- and therefore, shouldn’t scientists be the rational, reassuring bearers of that ‘knowledge’? What about when their predictions turn out wrong, should scientists be held accountable? The [...]
If a picture can tell a story, a powerful image can also be a fantastic tool to stimulate discussion. In fact, an interesting, vivid, thought-provoking image has the dual function of being an engaging hook to get your students talking, as well as putting across information and allowing your students to bring that knowledge into [...]
Hello all and happy New Year! We are kicking off 2011 with a bang at the ASE Annual Conference in Reading, where we will be running a workshop with Mystery Boxes, and another great activity from our course. In fact, we even had a bunch of scientists try out Mystery Boxes, and this film shows what they thought [...]
Wow. There’s a place called Mono Lake, in California. It’s an ancient saline lake (3 times as salty as the ocean) with a pH of about 10, making it rather alkaline. It is also loaded with arsenic. Though you and I might think that would make it quite inhospitable to life, it supports a very [...]
Hot off the press! We have just launched a brand-new series ‘Genetics and Brain Science’ on the Science Museum’s Educators website, where you can find a range of free KS3 and KS4 classroom activities. The resources support you in teaching contemporary science and How Science Works, and relate to our very popular Who am I? [...]
The planet Mars is the closest we have in our solar system to being called hospitable (well, after our own beloved Earth)- it has surface gravity, an atmosphere, carbon dioxide, minerals and most importantly, water. But would you want to take a one-way trip over there? Some scientists, like Dirk Schulze-Makuch, speculate that to [...]
Air pollution levels in London are dangerously high and currently exceed EU recommended maximum levels. So what are we doing about it? Scientists have come up with a sticky solution. A layer of a special substance is being spread on roads which will literally stick polluting particles to the ground and stop them recirculation in [...]
So, in the news, you may have heard that scientists working on that massively epic underground experiment at CERN aka the Large Hadron Collider, have successfully created a mini-Big Bang (so should it be called a Little Bang?) by smashing lead ions together to recreate the kind of conditions that are believed to have given [...]
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