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This way, your BSO students surf with a critical eye
How do you teach students in vocational secondary education to argue well, make conscious choices and deal with media alertly? Three teachers explain how they work on the final objectives of critical thinking and media literacy in their lessons.
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Train your own self-driving car: AI in the classroom
Self-driving vehicles capture our imagination. We see the technology appearing in various forms such as cars and buses, but also in lawnmowers, vacuum cleaners and in the workplace. When we look under the hood at AI technology, those benefits are …
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Repair café: Repairman for the class
Tips for visiting a Repair Café or a professional repairer in the area with your class. Or to possibly invite a repairer to class.
During such a visit or class discussion, students discover what volunteer or professional repairers do, but also …
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Flame tests with tea light holders
Metal salts dissolved in methanol color beautifully in the flame. These are very simple
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Synthesis of gold colloids from electronic waste
In this article, we discuss the synthesis of starch stabilized gold colloids, starting from gold recovered from electronic waste. The recycled gold was cleaned with concentrated nitric acid and dissolved in aqua regia. After evaporating the acidic …
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Synthesis of quantum dots from lemon juice
Fluorescent quantum dots are created when lemon juice is carbonated with a heating plate. This synthesis is simple and can be performed by secondary school students. Also view the accompanying video .
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Building learning labs and innovative learning spaces
A practical guide developed by European Schoolnet to support schools and teachers in the roll-out of STEM labs and a Future Classroom. The secondary school RHIZO Lyceum OLV Vlaanderen is described in this guide as a practical example.
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Biological and chemical water research
In many places in Flanders, a large-scale installation purifies the waste water. In the garden of De Helix this is done on a small scale by marsh plants. The students investigate the treated waste water in the pool at the end of the circuit, on …
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Information skills in assignments
Pupils come into contact with various media on a daily basis. Also while creating tasks and assignments, students often search the internet. But is the information they find here correct and reliable?
This article focuses on teaching students a …
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Apollo - 50 years of the moon landing
Half a century ago, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. A total of twelve astronauts would be walking around on our nearest neighbor. The first moon landing kept the whole world glued to the TV set, the last flight received hardly any …
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Getting started with the Smartest Human
Use the popularity of the game program De Slimste Mens to get creative with your students. Let them follow current events in a more targeted way, immerse them in archive material from eg Twitter, websites of newspapers and/or YouTube. Let them …
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STEM is Popular: The Human Body and Science
The Coppens brothers put their body to the test from a scientific point of view every week in The Body of Coppens .
They use the inquiry-based learning strategy:
- What would happen if…?
- Why is our experiment not (yet) successful?
- How do we adjust …
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