Nitrite Water Analysis: a practical approach to dye synthesis The project described here is embedded in the frame of a regular school lesson conducted in senior classes in high school. To address issues of the chemical field of dye synthesis and especially the azo dye substances, this lessons setup starts with a problem definition. This is done by introducing ...

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,...

Studying the Food Relations The specific learning material is organized in three stages which include Scenario, Inquiry and Decision-making. Stage 1: Scenario Article taken from the Newspaper "Eyes on the world" The eradication of the Muflon population could cause major consequences for the entire ecosystem. Since 1994, th...

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 ...

Tablets in Science Education – New Trend in the Czech Republic With expansion of modern technologies also the number of schools that use tablets for teaching grows. „Despite all the demands and difficulties, we cannot imagine returning to the classic way of teaching with a blackboard. Education results clearly show that the influence of digital learning is posi...

The Digital-Earth Network The digital-earth.eu multinational network aims at providing broad access to resources, promoting innovation and best practice in the implementation of geographic (geo-)media as a digital learning environment for school learning and teaching in several scientific fields (Earth science, Environmental...

Selected for piloting The EnvKids The project aims at students' understanding of the concept of environmental sustainability. It consists of educational activities that are designed as a series of simple steps that children can follow easily, of building critical thinking and developing understanding of the above mentioned concept. ...

The Gisas Introduction of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to the teaching of geography and environmental sciences in European schools. The partners developed an integrated Web-based learning environment to collect, visualise, manage and share local GIS data on water and river basins. The materials deve...