If you are looking for that spark of inspiration, or for more great ways to engage your students, PlaybackSchools is a new service from the National STEM Centre which gives you free access to the 3500 videos produced by Teachers TV. I’ve chosen a selection of the most popular primary and secondary videos in the archive.
Inspirations is a series of 90 short films highlighting exciting projects… Read more
Inspiration from PlaybackSchools
Posted by Karen Hornby on 17th May 2012
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ESERO-UK visit to Jodrell Bank
Posted by Alice Coates on 16th May 2012
This week Tom Lyons, ESERO-UK Teacher Fellow, and myself visited Jodrell Bank and marvelled at the giant Lovell Telescope. Since 2003 there have only been intermittent visitor facilities at Jodrell Bank since sections were demolished, however the new visitor centre includes a Planet Pavilion and a Space Pavilion. The Space Pavilion provides visitors with hands on interactive activities, based around… Read more
Balloons and paradoxes
Posted by Tom Lyons on 9th May 2012
Last week I was standing on a freezing cold airfield with a latex balloon in my hands. Later that day, I was searching the roadside for a polystyrene box. This is not an average day at the office – it was all part of “Reach for the Sky – Using Weather Balloons”, a course run by the National Science Learning Centre. Our tutors were Rob Harrison and Steve Hugill. Rob is a pioneer… Read more
Earth Day 22nd April 2012 – huge for us but insignificant in the universe?
Posted by Tom Lyons on 19th April 2012
The Earth is huge. It’s gigantic. Massive. It has a mass of 6,000 billion billion tonnes. It would take over a year to walk around it and we have only explored about 5% of the oceans, which cover 70% of the surface. There are 7 billion of us on the planet but we live in only about 1% of the Earth’s surface.
However, the Earth is less than a pin hole in the king sized double duvet… Read more
Brains and behaviour
Posted by Karen Hornby on 4th April 2012
Brains: The Mind as Matter is the new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London running until 17th June 2012. The exhibition explores our relationship with this delicate and mysterious organ and features over 150 artefacts including artworks, photography, surgical instruments and, of course, real brains.
Amongst these, samples of Einstein’s brain will be on display alongside the brain… Read more
International Children’s Book Day
Posted by Andrew Jones on 29th March 2012
Children’s book illustrator John Burningham has been selected as the UK Author Nomination for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2012 as part of the ICBD celebrations. John Burningham is well-known for such children’s classics as the highly popular book “Oi! Get Off Our Train”, which deals with the issue of endangered animals as they try to board a train in order to escape extinction.… Read more