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Online STEM platform: Simulate labs for distance learning
The free online STEM platform allows educators to simulate labs for distance learning. It is a free, interactive STEM education project from the University of Colorado Boulder that aims to be a platform for teachers to simulate online classroom …
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Distance STEM Education: Database of Learning Resources
A database of learning materials, which can be used for distance STEM education.
Categories you can select from:
- primary education,
- secondary education,
- first grade,
- second grade,
- third degree.
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Why are we so sure that the big bang really happened?
Many of us believe that the Earth, along with all other planets and solar systems, was created by the Big Bang. But how can we be so sure? Because some professors tell us that? No, there is evidence that the Big Bang actually happened. Particle …
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How do scientists know how old the ice mummy Ötzi is?
On September 19, 1991, two German mountain hikers found a mummy in the Italian Ötztal Alps. Archaeologists called him Ötzi and stated that he lived about 5300 years ago. But how can they be so sure? Geologist Patrick Degryse (KU Leuven) takes …
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Why aren't people blue?
Tropical fish, birds of paradise, a limitless flora,... all colored in all shades of the rainbow. We humans have an extremely unimaginative skin color compared to all that nature. How did that happen? What are all those colors for? And what …
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Heldenflix: Workshop
Why are Netflix series so addictive? The answer lies in the earliest adventure novels and how well they have been preserved or not. In an interactive workshop we teach young people from the fourth to sixth year of secondary education to make …
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Eyes that look: Teaching package
Today we live in a visual culture. Young people are continuously confronted with visual information: videos and photos on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Images are always present, but how well can young people look and observe? And can they still …
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Chemistry: Game
Chemical variant of trivial persuit. The students roll the dice and may then move the next ascending atomic number on the board. The color of the square they land on determines which type of ticket they have to answer (person on the left reads the …
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Electron configuration: Quartet
Quartet to practice the different electron configurations (numerical representation, shell representation, electron dot model).
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Sustainable plastics: Lab
This teaching module builds on the presentation 'Sustainability and sustainable plastics' and takes place in a chemical lab. Based on a protocol, several bioplastics are made and the properties of the different plastics are tested.
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Velewe VZW: Association of Science Teachers
Website of the Association of Teachers of Science (VeLeWe) on which, among other things, announcements appear about activities, refresher courses, competitions...
Members can also open articles from the newsletters after logging in.
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The Ghent water case abio: Chemical water research with your class
Good water quality is of great importance for the life of aquatic animals and aquatic plants. Life in the water depends on a number of abiotic factors such as temperature, oxygen content, nitrate content, clarity...
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