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 [...]
In our mission to share useful resources with you, the time has come to talk about the Royal Institution’s brilliant Ri Channel- packed with engaging videos on loads of different themes. Beautifully made films tell tales of leaping lizards and criminal penguins, mending a broken heart and what’s inside your head. Plus scientists talk science (of [...]
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 [...]
Nanotechnology is a hot topic, and there is a wealth of information online- we have just found a useful site that covers the main things, from the definition of nanotechnology to some of its applications and risks: 10 things you should know about nanotechnology. You can get your students to explore it for research prior [...]
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 [...]
The world’s biggest atom smasher is back on track. The Large Hadron Collider was switched on this week and the last time we checked on their Twitter account it was all going well. The scientists will continue in their work to unravel our understanding of how the universe came into exisitence. The project has been beset by [...]
A trip on a Virgin Galactic sub orbital space flight next year will set you back at least $200,000 …..we can all dream! But will these trips ever be affordable and should public money be used to fund them? A report published this week recommends that Britain invests more money in the space industry in [...]
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