The Inspiring Science Education Project The project aims at providing resources and opportunities for teachers to make science in specific fields (Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth science, Environmental sciences, Geography, Physics) more attractive to their students. The project includes: (a) an online portal that provides with an int...

The Irresistible Project The project's main goal is to design activities that foster the involvement of students in scientific research. This will be achieved by combining formal and informal educational approaches to introduce relevant topics (Earth science, Ecology, Energy, Environmental sciences, Geophysics, Meteorology,...

Selected for piloting The Nature Calendar With the nature calendar scholars investigate how nature reacts to climate change. Natural processes, such as flowering, falling of leaves, start of bird migration, take place every year around the same period. This so called “nature calendar” of species is strongly influenced by temperature, precip...

The Pathway The Pathway to Inquiry-Based Science Teaching multinational EU project brings together experts in the field of science education research and teachers' communities, scientists, explorers involved in pioneering scientific research and curriculum developers, to promote the use of inquiry and problem-b...

The Sustainability Factory The Sustainability Factory is a powerful collaboration between companies, the educational field and the government. It provides real life education for the new generation of technicians. Inspiration, innovation, sustainability and craftsmanship come together and contribute to the development of th...

Selected for piloting The White Ruta Puida, a teacher from Daugavpils Centra Secondary School, developed a lesson on substance recognition. Every day at home, we see a member of our family use various ingredients for cooking: salt, sugar, flour, etc. Especially, the three mentioned are similar to each other (they are white powders...

The YSE project YSE promotes innovative teaching and learning about sustainable development and energy consumption (including renewable energy) through problem-based learning in various scientific fields (Ecology, Energy, Environmental sciences, Information technology, Technology) The project outputs include a new ...

Vizualisation Aija Staskevica from Vecumnieki Primary School thinks that science books usually contain too much text. Some students have bad reading skills and simply do not understand a topic because they cannot read the entire text. To involve these children and help them understand, she makes presentations wit...