Teachers, teacher trainers and other educators explain their pedagogical projects, approaches and methodologies. They can be applied at primary and secondary level schools.
Inquiry-to-Insight: A new way to teach Environmental Sciences - 11 May
2010 - The Inquiry-to-Insight (I2I) project aims to promote environmental science education through digital tools. During the project I2I students from Europe collaborate with American students via social networking and other collaborative internet technologies to investigate and envision... Read more
Cooperation between Science and Language classes - 10 March
2009 - English and Chemistry teachers from Zespol Szkol Integracyjnych no 1 - PG
no 17 in Bialystok, Poland, have used the multilingual Xperimania (www.xperimania.net) chats to combine teaching their subjects. Bringing language teaching... Read more
Investigative work using unusual paper planes - 03 November
2008 - Dan Hannard, a Physics teacher at Woodkirk High Specialist Science School in UK, shares with us one of his favorite lessons plans on how to make an unusual paper plane and what the students can learn with it. Read more
Variations of historical experiments - 26 June
2008 - Elena Kyriaki is a high school Physics teacher from Belgium. In the article below she tells us about her experiences in a Comenius III project “Hands on Science”, where teachers reproduced historical experiments in the school laboratory. Read more
Some tips for young Science teachers - 18 March
2008 - Elena Kyriaki, Physics teacher from Belgium, gives in the article below some advices for young Science teachers to work with the potential scientists of the future. Read more
Electromagnets using James Bond as a starting point - Lesson plan - 18 March
2008 - Daniel Hannard teaches physics at Woodkirk High Specialist Science School in UK. Below he shares with us one of his favourite lesson plans: Electromagnets using James Bond as a starting point. Read more
Interference of two Circular or Spherical Waves - a Lesson Plan - 29 January
2007 - Eleni Kyriaki teaches Science and ICT in Belgium. In the article below, she shares with you a lesson plan entitled: “Interference of two Circular or Spherical Waves”. It is intended to be a useful source of information and inspiration for a target group of secondary level... Read more
Using algorithm visualization to facilitate the teaching of algorithms - 12 May
2009 - Stavros Nikou is one of the members of the Xplora teachers group.
He teaches both Computer Science in secondary public schools and programming, databases, internet and multimedia in vocational schools.
His article gives us an insight into the benefits of the algorithm visualization... Read more
Trigonometry: sextant and GeoGebra - 12 May
2009 - Benito Bua Ares is one of our Xplora teachers. He teaches mathematics in a secondary school in Galicia, Spain and in this article he tells us more about angles and trigonometry. He also presents some projects which have been carried out by his students using open source softwares. Read more
Skype…even for children - 24 May
2006 - Linda Giannini, one of the Xplora teachers, is a nursery school teacher and an educational researcher. In this article she tells us more about her experience in using Skype with children at the nursery school in Latina. Read more
Crop circles Challenge: playing with maths as a game - 11 April
2006 - Everyone knows, maths has always been trial and delight for students. There are those who fall in love with it and maths becomes even their work and those who cannot put up with it like a heavy food. Palmira Ronchi, one of the Xplora teachers, and her student Angelarita de Marzo,... Read more
Between progress and pollution - 25 April
2006 - Lidia Minza, one of the Xplora teachers, teaches Chemistry in Romania at the “Vasile Alecsandri” High School, Galatzi. She tells us about an activity, carried out in her chemistry class with pupils aged 16-17 years. Read more
WorldWideMaps – Connecting minds - 12 May
2009 - Alfredo Tifi and Antonietta Lombardi, teachers and trainers in concept mapping, introduce us to WWMAPS, an open community, especially addressed to teachers who are interested to feature concept mapping in their pedagogy. Read more
Teacher-Scientist Partnerships for Global Change Education - 17 March
2006 - CarboSchools is an initiative which promotes partnerships between global change scientists, secondary school teachers and their students in order to raise young people's awareness on the local and global consequences of climate change, to encourage them to discover the scientific... Read more
How to build a statistical model - 03 October
2006 - Carlo Nati and Linda Giannini,
teachers trainers, introduce us to some operative samples of statistical models, using an Open Source software. Read more
Earth in Space: astronomy activities - 25 April
2006 - Young students are very interested in astronomical matters, but sometimes it’s difficult for them to grasp the essential ideas. To improve this situation some teaching activities have been developed within the ISSUE project... Read more
The Linnaean way to identify and learn about biology - 31 January
2006 - Carl Linnaeus or Carl von Linné, often called the "Father of Taxonomy" was in the second decade of the 18th century a pupil of Växjö Gymnasium, in Sweden. His system of classification and naming of biological organisms, such as animals and plants in groups, according... Read more
Historic Experiments on Internet for the Secondary Educational Level - 21 October
2005 - What are the Historic Experiments? All experiments have been introduced in the past by scientists who tried to test a hypothesis. Some of them contributed to the establishment of revolutionary theories; in this way they have influenced the evolution of ideas in science... Read more
Free Upgrade South Tyrol's Schools - 25 April
2006 - Emanuela Atz is an English teacher, from Salorno/Bolzano- South Tyrol - Italy. She tells more about a project with Italian schools in the province of Bolzano which switched from Windows to Linux in 2005. Read more
Science Center at school - 13 December
2005 - Science Center at School is a project of the NCWT Foundation, the umbrella organisation of the NEMO Science Center in Amsterdam, Holland. Commissioned by NEMO, in two exhibits primary school pupils prepare for their own science center at school. Read more
Scientist Factory - We hatch the scientists of the future! - 13 December
2005 - The Scientist Factory - ”Forskerfabrikken”, is an important contribution in Norway to inspire children’s interest in science. Hanne S. Finstad, founder and director of this non-profit organization tells us something more about this experience. Read more
Enhancing Local Water Quality Studies with Geographical Information Systems - 12 May
2009 - Tino Johansson, from the Department of Geography at the University of Helsinki, Finland is the project manager of GISAS project (Geographical Information Systems Applications for Schools). He briefly explains the aims, activities and outputs of the project which involves many European... Read more
Teaching in Practice: Biological Treatment of Polluted Water - 12 May
2009 - Carmen Bucovala is a teacher of biology from the Ovidius High School in Constanta, Romania. She came up with a nature-inspired outdoor project and resource for secondary level students of science and biology. Carmen and her pupils put in place a real life water treatment project... Read more
Kids and virtual worlds - 18 July
2005 - Linda Giannini, a teacher, educational researcher and scholar, explains her work with 3-5 year old children, using virtual worlds. The work as it involves children interacting in tri-dimensional chatspaces with adults, who are willing to "virtually" create – with 3D constructions... Read more
First steps into cybernetics - robots and bricks - 02 November
2006 - Linda Giannini and Carlo Nati, two education researchers have worked on this peer to peer learning project, involving 3-5 year old kindergarten pupils; 14-16 year old pupils and trainee teachers. It shows how microrobotics and practices of constructionism can be integrated into a... Read more
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Teachers, teacher trainers and other educators explain their pedagogical projects, approaches and methodologies. They can be applied at primary and secondary level schools.
The Inquiry-to-Insight (I2I) project aims to promote environmental science education through digital tools. During the project I2I students from Europe collaborate with American students via social networking and other collaborative internet technologies to investigate and envision...
English and Chemistry teachers from Zespol Szkol Integracyjnych no 1 - PG
no 17 in Bialystok, Poland, have used the multilingual Xperimania (
Dan Hannard, a Physics teacher at Woodkirk High Specialist Science School in UK, shares with us one of his favorite lessons plans on how to make an unusual paper plane and what the students can learn with it.
Elena Kyriaki is a high school Physics teacher from Belgium. In the article below she tells us about her experiences in a Comenius III project “Hands on Science”, where teachers reproduced historical experiments in the school laboratory.
Elena Kyriaki, Physics teacher from Belgium, gives in the article below some advices for young Science teachers to work with the potential scientists of the future.
Daniel Hannard teaches physics at Woodkirk High Specialist Science School in UK. Below he shares with us one of his favourite lesson plans: Electromagnets using James Bond as a starting point.
Eleni Kyriaki teaches Science and ICT in Belgium. In the article below, she shares with you a lesson plan entitled: “Interference of two Circular or Spherical Waves”. It is intended to be a useful source of information and inspiration for a target group of secondary level...
Stavros Nikou is one of the members of the Xplora teachers group.
He teaches both Computer Science in secondary public schools and programming, databases, internet and multimedia in vocational schools.
His article gives us an insight into the benefits of the algorithm visualization...
Benito Bua Ares is one of our Xplora teachers. He teaches mathematics in a secondary school in Galicia, Spain and in this article he tells us more about angles and trigonometry. He also presents some projects which have been carried out by his students using open source softwares.
Linda Giannini, one of the Xplora teachers, is a nursery school teacher and an educational researcher. In this article she tells us more about her experience in using Skype with children at the nursery school in Latina.
Everyone knows, maths has always been trial and delight for students. There are those who fall in love with it and maths becomes even their work and those who cannot put up with it like a heavy food. Palmira Ronchi, one of the Xplora teachers, and her student Angelarita de Marzo,...
Lidia Minza, one of the Xplora teachers, teaches Chemistry in Romania at the “Vasile Alecsandri” High School, Galatzi. She tells us about an activity, carried out in her chemistry class with pupils aged 16-17 years.
Alfredo Tifi and Antonietta Lombardi, teachers and trainers in concept mapping, introduce us to 
CarboSchools is an initiative which promotes partnerships between global change scientists, secondary school teachers and their students in order to raise young people's awareness on the local and global consequences of climate change, to encourage them to discover the scientific...
Carlo Nati and Linda Giannini,
teachers trainers, introduce us to some operative samples of statistical models, using an Open Source software.
Young students are very interested in astronomical matters, but sometimes it’s difficult for them to grasp the essential ideas. To improve this situation some teaching activities have been developed within the 
Carl Linnaeus or Carl von Linné, often called the "Father of Taxonomy" was in the second decade of the 18th century a pupil of Växjö Gymnasium, in Sweden. His system of classification and naming of biological organisms, such as animals and plants in groups, according...
What are the Historic Experiments?
Emanuela Atz is an English teacher, from Salorno/Bolzano- South Tyrol - Italy. She tells more about a project with Italian schools in the province of Bolzano which switched from Windows to Linux in 2005.
Science Center at School is a project of the NCWT Foundation, the umbrella organisation of the NEMO Science Center in Amsterdam, Holland. Commissioned by NEMO, in two exhibits primary school pupils prepare for their own science center at school.
The Scientist Factory - ”Forskerfabrikken”, is an important contribution in Norway to inspire children’s interest in science.
Tino Johansson, from the Department of Geography at the University of Helsinki, Finland is the project manager of GISAS project (Geographical Information Systems Applications for Schools). He briefly explains the aims, activities and outputs of the project which involves many European...
Carmen Bucovala is a teacher of biology from the Ovidius High School in Constanta, Romania. She came up with a nature-inspired outdoor project and resource for secondary level students of science and biology. Carmen and her pupils put in place a real life water treatment project...
Linda Giannini, a teacher, educational researcher and scholar, explains her work with 3-5 year old children, using virtual worlds. The work as it involves children interacting in tri-dimensional chatspaces with adults, who are willing to "virtually" create – with 3D constructions...
Linda Giannini and Carlo Nati, two education researchers have worked on this peer to peer learning project, involving 3-5 year old kindergarten pupils; 14-16 year old pupils and trainee teachers. It shows how microrobotics and practices of constructionism can be integrated into a...
