Stella - European Community of Practices

STELLA continues on STENCIL!

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:11:17 GMT

STELLA project activities continues on the STENCIL Network web portal
www.stencil-science.eu.

STENCIL - a European Comenius Network including 21 members from 9 European countries - wants to (...)

News from STELLA

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:52:11 GMT

In December 2009, after 2 years of hard work, this phase of the STELLA project has come to an end.

Keep on visiting the STELLA web portal, as well as on including your science education (...)

CERN Education

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:40:29 GMT

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the (...)

EducaPoles

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:35:41 GMT

EducaPoles is the educational website of the International Polar Foundation. It sets out to sensitize young people and the educational world to the importance of the Polar Regions and of climate (...)

The Climate Mystery

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:06:39 GMT

The Climate Mystery is an online learning universe that combines education and entertainment to inform and teach about global climate challenges.

The online story runs in real time and begins on (...)

Guides for teachers in science education

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:31:19 GMT

Pollen - a European project coordinated by La main à la pâte (France) - promotes science teaching renovation in primary schools based on an inquiry-based approach. For this, a sustainable framework for science education through a child-centred approach starting in school and extending to the whole city has been created. A network of 12 interacting “seed cities” is (...)

Xperimania Science Ambassadors

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:23:18 GMT

Would you like to show your students the coolest chemistry and physics tricks and find some new ideas for your science classes? This year Xperimania sends science ambassadors right into the classroom to demonstrate the fun side of science - and your school can be one of their destinations!
Concentrating on chemistry and physics, Xperimania aims to boost young people's interest in science, which (...)

The STELLA final conference in Nancy, France, 18 November 2009

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:28:58 GMT

The STELLA final conference takes place in Nancy, France, on 18 November 2009, and is broadcasted on the Internet in English and French. It is addressing science education teachers, educators, researchers and school heads, focusing on the presentation of interesting science education initiatives in France and other European countries, stimulating discussion, exchange and brainstorming on how to (...)

European study shows when teachers like science, students do too

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:18:13 GMT

Did you ever blame your teacher for hating science? If you answered yes, you're not alone. New research shows that the shrinking number of students in Europe who choose to study science is influenced by how schools and teachers shape their attitudes. The research findings were applied in the EU-supported POLLEN ('Pollen seed cities for science, a community approach for a sustainable growth of (...)

The European Virtual Observatory (EuroVO)

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:03:57 GMT

The European Virtual Observatory (EuroVO) aims at developing a virtual observatory in Europe.
Astronomy, being interesting both for education and as entertainment, is a science that attracts a variety of people. Astronomy offers both beautiful images and the fascination with the marvels, the mysteries and enigmas of the sky.
Therefore an important goal of EuroVO is the development of a (...)

Baltic active education network for development of people-to-people initiatives

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:49:34 GMT

EduPEOPLE project

EduPEOPLE project partners are two science centres: EXPERYMENT Science Centre from Gdynia, Poland and eXperimentLabbet from Kal-mar, Sweden.

EduPEOPLE Project aims raising active education awareness in the South Baltic region on cross-border level, especially among teachers. It will result with number of training occasions to promote science centres as a tool for operating (...)

Class Zero Emission

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:51:45 GMT

Class Zero Emission

Class Zero Emission (CZE) is a free interactive pedagogical workshop centre, conceived by the International Polar Foundation, with the support of the governments of Belgium's Flemish and French Communities.

The workshop has four areas covering four different themes:
- climate change,
- the Polar Regions,
- polar science,
- exploration & sustainable (...)

SCIENCE WEB -INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY 2009

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:11:04 GMT

The students made an on-line Science walk in the Universe (a science web-physics and astronomy, an overview of all the european projects in which they work and dedicate these studies to INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY 2009.
Their studies content -SATTELITE TRANSMISSION,CLIMATE,ASTROPHYSICS,TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE(multiple choise astronomy tests composed by children, ABOUT US(where they gathered a (...)

Science on Stage Deutschland e.V.

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:34:57 GMT

The non-profit organisation Science on Stage Deutschland e.V. (SonSD) establishes a network for German science teachers, promoting exchange with pedagogues from other European countries. It organises workshops and training programmes to disseminate interesting experiments and new teaching concepts from all over Europe in Germany.
SonSD focuses on teachers and encourages them to improve their (...)

An educational project in the framework of the European Virtual Observatory: EuroVo AIDA - WP5

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:07:10 GMT

EuroVO AIDA-WP5 allows students to easily access astronomical data of the
Virtual Observatory (VO) and offers dedicated software and educational material.

GOALS: To teach astronomy using an interactive laboratory with a taste of
professional scientific research, working with simplified professional software,
retrieving and analysing data of Virtual Observatory archives. These archives (...)