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RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-04-30T18:02:08Z

Thank you for sharing Konstantinos

RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-04-30T17:57:35Z

Thank you for sharing Tullia

RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-04-30T17:56:06Z

Thank you Silviya!
Yes, it shows how films and popular culture can sometimes be used to increase interest in engineering by building role models. Engineering is to a large extent about solving problems, and movie directors need to be good problem solvers.

RE: I Robot

2017-04-30T17:51:09Z

Thank you so much for sharing Nectara It is interesting how you manage to make the lesson plan cross-curricular, so it also challanges ethical, historical and social issues in addition to those that are purely technological or engineering.

RE: We, Robot

2017-04-30T17:47:17Z

Ok, excellent, thank you for sharing Yoni this very interesting lesson plan

RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-04-30T17:45:41Z

Thank you Stella for a very detailed and structured idea for a lesson game based on the Ender's Game! Have you already tried it in class or are you planning to? We would be interested to know how it worked out.

RE: UNCLE TUNGSTEN: MEMORIES OF A CHEMICAL BOYHOOD

2017-04-30T17:43:00Z

Excellent! Thank you Erhan Sahin. It would be an interesting experiment to see how young students nowadays relate to scientists' conditions in the past. How old should the students be in order to participate in your lesson successfully?

RE: Classroom ideas about: "Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a chemical boyhood"

2017-04-30T17:38:48Z

Thank you Noelia, those are very interesting thoughts about the construction of scientific knowledge in relation to Uncle Tungsten!
Did you read the book before you heard about the Scientix competition, or did the competition encourage you to read it?

RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-04-30T17:33:55Z

Thank you Maria and Tsetsa for sharing your ideas, very interesting!

RE: Welcome

2017-04-30T17:11:26Z

Thank you for sharing your ideas for classroom activities For everyone, please remember that the book competition is expected to end today. If you still plan to participate with your idea for STEM Discovery Week, you must do so as soon as possible.

RE: Welcome

2017-04-27T12:17:05Z

Dear all! Thank you so much for your interest in the books we selected for the STEM Discovery Week. We have already received many interesting ideas for classroom activities. Our thanks to those teachers that have already shared their ideas with us
Please remember that the deadline to post your idea is 30 April 2017! Please use the dedicated discussion threads for each book available on this web page. Good luck everyone and enjoy the rest of STEM Discovery Week!
http://scientix.eu/events/campaigns/sdw17/cat3

RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-04-27T12:10:52Z

Panagiota, thank you so much for sharing your geometry lesson and materials with us. Very cool how you managed to integrate it with the Thales chapter of the Parrot's Theorem
In the past we had books for the lessons, which was portrayed by the regular book discussions in the Parrot's Theorem, but you also show how technology can nowadays enhance learning experience what used to be more limited in the past.

RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-04-27T12:04:50Z

Thanks for sharing Tadeja this interesting lesson plan about the Fibonacci sequence! Have you already tried it out and how did it work?
Do you find the book useful to motivate students about mathematics?
Do you perhaps have a Number Devil in your class?

RE: Aerospace Engineering

2017-04-27T12:01:21Z

Dear Palma, thank you so much for sharing your experiments based on the book with us! It is great you found it useful for your classes and that you have been able to organise experiments with your students directly based on the examples provided in the book.
This book is, of course, slightly different from the other titles in the book discussion as it is very practical. Do you plan to do more experiments from the book during STEM Discovery Week?
Keep sharing with us

RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-04-27T11:54:54Z

Very good observation! Thanks for sharing your idea for the lesson and how important it is for students to have role models. Your example of Hitchcock is particularly interesting. Did you already try it out in your mathematics class, and if so, how was it received by your students? Did you find it useful to explain the concept of engineering and problem solving?

RE: We, Robot

2017-04-27T11:50:45Z

Thank you Yoni for sharing your idea and lesson plan with us, very interesting, especially how you link it to the concept of STE(A)M! Your lesson seems to integrate many different elements in STEM education and critical thinking of students. Out of curiosity, how old should the students be in order to participate in your lesson? Do you think both very advanced and less advanced students could participate equally?

RE: Future books

2017-04-27T11:46:33Z

That's a very good question Irma. Did you find it difficult to find hard copies of these 8 books that Scientix selected for this discussion?

RE: UNCLE TUNGSTEN: MEMORIES OF A CHEMICAL BOYHOOD

2017-04-27T11:44:43Z

Thank you Lidia. It is interesting that you see this book could be used for "Materials needed to realise the filament of the electric bulbs in order to reduce the degree of pollution and to reduce the electricity consumption."
A very interesting idea. Do you have an example of how this could be done in classroom practice?

RE: TECHNOLOGY BOOKS/ENDER'S GAME

2017-04-27T11:42:26Z

Thank you Lidia I am interested in knowing more about those presentations for each subjects and how they are linked to the book. Do you have more examples?
Please note, that you are posting this in a wrong discussion thread. This discussion is for the book "Uncle Tungsten". Please use the discussion thread for the Ender's Game if you want to participate in discussion about that book.

RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-04-27T11:39:09Z

Dear Teresa, thank you so much for reading about "Uncle Tungsten" and for sharing your ideas for activities based on the book. I realise that other teachers have created new threads for their ideas, but it is best to use this thread to share and discuss the ideas for this book in particular. I am very happy to hear that you enjoyed so much reading the book and that you found it useful - I was personally not aware of the book's relationship with other literature in the field of science, but it makes sense! Was it easy for you to find the book?