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The Next-Lab project: what’s to come?
11/10/2019
The Next-Lab project is implemented in the context of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. The philosophy and technology of Next-Lab is based on its previous project Go-Lab and it continues its mission of promoting innovative and interactive methods of teaching science in primary and secondary schools across Europe. The Go-Lab Ecosystem (sharing and authoring platforms) facilitates the use of online laboratories and inquiry-based learning applications for science education in schools.
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Enter the LEGO Education Competition 2019!
11/10/2019
Are you ready to participate in the LEGO Competition and win a full class set of LEGO® Education WeDo 2.0 or LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 for your class? This autumn, within the Back to School Campaign 2019 STEM Alliance and LEGO Education invite primary and secondary teachers in the EU to engage in hands-on STEM teaching by applying LEGO Education resources in their STEM projects.
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Present your innovative coding project in the European Code League
01/10/2019
Coding is a skill that is becoming increasingly important, especially for students. It is up to teachers to incorporate this topic into their lessons in order to prepare children and young people for the future. Therefore, Science on Stage is now launching the European Code League, an international competition for STEM teachers from all over Europe to present their unique coding projects for STEM lessons!
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Registration for StarT 2019-2020 is open!
01/10/2019
StarT, organised annually by the LUMA Centre Finland, is an educational initiative in which students carry out projects related to science, technology or mathematics and teachers get support for carrying out interdisciplinary and collaborative project-based learning. In the international competition teachers’ best educational practices and children and youngsters’ innovative projects are celebrated with awards and publicity.
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World Space Week 2019: Excite your students to learn about STEM!
17/09/2019
World Space Week is an international celebration of science and technology and their contribution to the betterment of the human condition. The United Nations General Assembly declared in 1999 that World Space Week would be held each year from October 4-10 and since then it has grown into the largest public space event on Earth.
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Visit the new home of the European Schoolnet Academy!
17/09/2019
The European Schoolnet Academy has a new home: the platform with free online courses for teachers across Europe has upgraded its website with a fresh design and improved features. The most important new features include updated course navigation, more structured peer-to-peer assignments and the possibility of bookmarking content for later.
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Book your spot in the “STEM Education in the 21st Century” course!
02/09/2019
The New York Academy of Sciences has developed an online course that supports K–12 STEM educators through the process of developing an instructional unit aligned to the Academy’s STEM Education Framework. The course will be provided free of charge to a limited number of educators in Fall 2019.
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Prepare for the autumn full of STEM activities with STEM Alliance
02/09/2019
After a very productive and motivating summer period, STEM Alliance is entering a new academic year with big plans. A new calendar of online events, released recently by STEM Alliance and Scientix, includes chats for schools and webinars with representatives of companies such as Cisco, Bertschi or Vopak. Moreover, in the coming months STEM Alliance will cooperate even more closely with LEGO Education, organising plenty of activities to ignite student engagement in learning and to support educators.
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36 new lesson plans from the Scientix MOOC “STEM Is Everywhere!” are online!
02/09/2019
The Scientix MOOC “STEM Is Everywhere!” aimed to connect Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) classes with “real life” and help teachers integrate real-world problems into their STEM lessons and practices. During the course, participants had the chance to develop their own lesson plans, which now are available for everyone in the Scientix resources repository.
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A place for inspiration, innovation and exchange – the program of Educating the Educators III revealed!
19/08/2019
How do we best scale up professional development (PD) in maths and science education? This common question will be a starting point for fruitful discussion and exchanges of best practices for researchers, teacher educators, STEM PD centres, policy makers and business representatives from around the world who will gather at the University of Education in Freiburg, Germany on 7-8 October, 2019. The third edition of the Educating the Educators conference series is now only a couple of months away and the Organisation Committee is excited to present the program schedule to you!
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