Flying Anda Freimane from Mazzalve Primary school performed a natural science lesson about flying for the 5th grade students. Their task was to make paper airplanes at home. They were later tested in school to find the best model to fly. Students could use any information or help. The resulting planes were...

Lake Investigation Aija Staskevica from Vecumnieki Primary School carried out a research with 1st grade students. The objective was to learn the procedure of a research and its steps. They started planning together to find out what was necessary to perform a research. Students suggested that the name of the researcher...

Outdoors Many teachers in a research pointed out that students usually like lessons outdoors. That is why they go outdoors very often. In this good practice, the experience of biology and natural science teacher Lienite Iesalniece from Dundaga secondary school is described. Beaver dam. Students went outdoor...

Snowman Ingrida Brizga, a teacher from Cesis Primary School Nr. 2, projects PowerPoint presentations and interactive whiteboard materials using Active Inspire programme, including animation, videos for students during the physics and mathematics lessons. Similarly, students prepare PowerPoint presentations,...

Student/ teacher Teacher's experience: Aija Bruna from Dzerve Primary School sometimes uses the “student/teacher” method. She splits up students in pairs in which one is a teacher and the other is a student. For example, she teaches co-ordinates this way. While “the teacher” names the coordinates of a place, “the s...

Tablets and Smartphones in Science This is a classroom practice from Vecumnieku Secondary School, teacher Anda Kuzma. Teacher lets students use smartphones to search for pictures of plants, lichens, insects etc. because students are accustomed to do this every day. She uses tablets for practical work in biology (particularly outside ...

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...

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...