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Temperature: What It Means and How We Measure It
Posted 10/06/2022 by Ian GallowayAlmost nothing happens in the universe without there being a difference of temperature between two places. This suggests that most energy changes are associated with a temperature difference.
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The Heartbeat of STEM
Posted 06/04/2022 by Jessica KohoutAre you interested in introducing your students to coding but are not sure how? Read about this heart-pounding STEM project that will get your students excited about programming.
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Infrared Radiation and the James Webb Space Telescope
Posted 11/02/2022 by Ian GallowayThe James Webb Space Telescope has reached Lagrange point 2, one and a half million kilometers away, and is getting ready to explore the cosmos in the infrared part of the spectrum. Expansion of the universe means that after 15 billion years the light emitted by the earliest galaxies has stretched so that it is now in the infrared part of the spectrum. In this blog we focus on the discovery and use of infrared radiation.
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Challenges From Space: The James Webb Space Telescope and Lagrange Points
Posted 01/02/2022 by Ian GallowayOn January 23, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope reached its destination. This highly complex instrument is taking advantage of a cosmic location discovered by Euler and Lagrange more than 200 years ago. Read on to see how you can incorporate this into a classroom activity to calculate the Lagrange points.
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Sharing Inspiration 2021: Energy — the Elephant in the Room
Posted 06/12/2021 by Ian GallowayThe last session of Sharing Inspiration 2021 took place days after the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) had finished in Glasgow. Effectively, this was the T3 contribution to the debate on climate change and sustainable development.
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Students Should Free Themselves From Pen and Paper, and Start Learning By Doing
Posted 17/11/2021 by Sónia ReisWith 25 years of teaching experience, Alexandre Gomes is practical about the role of technology in education. The physics and chemistry teacher, and T³ Europe instructor, believes that technology education in schools must evolve from theory to practice. "You need students to free themselves from pen and paper and to actually start learning by doing. And learning by doing, using Texas Instruments technology, makes perfect sense.”
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Computational Thinking for all students Dutch Leo Kanner school
Posted 13/05/2021 by Koen StulensThe aim of the Computational Thinking strategy at the Leo Kanner secondary school in Leiden is to teach children to approach problems logically and to use digital tools to solve them. To this end, the school organised a pilot programme using TI-Nspire™ CX technology. “An important plus is that you learn the basics of computational thinking through this technology,” says teacher Zeno van der Zalm. “We started small, but we are now in the phase where we are involving more teachers and subjects in the trajectory.
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How I performed lab experiments during lockdown
Posted 18/03/2021 by Fernanda Neri, physics and chemistry teacher, Escola Secundária de Amares, PortugalHow can my students work on the lab experiments that are mandatory in the Portuguese curriculum during lockdown? As a physics and chemistry teacher I would like to share my experiences of switching to virtual lessons because of the global pandemic. Learning by doing is important to me; this is how students get a true understanding of physics and chemistry. When I get the chance, I sneak into a lab to use practical examples to explain scientific concepts, even during my regular classes. When I didn’t have these options during lockdown, I worked on solutions with the help of TI-Nspire CX technology.
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Applying Research in STEM Classrooms Concretely - Sharing Inspiration 2021
Posted 05/02/2021 by Ian GallowayIn 2021, our biennial conference Sharing Inspiration will go virtual. For the first time Sharing Inspiration also offers year-round activities for teachers, such as quarterly conferences and monthly webinars. On January 21, the first of these quarterly conferences was held. Read a report on this conference which focused on ‘Applying Research in STEM Classrooms Concretely.’
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Physics project: students sprint towards sustainable waste solutions
Posted 23/10/2020 by Sónia Reis
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Separating out metal, developing greener ways to collect waste, fishing plastic out of water, washing glass and compressing domestic rubbish — these are the sustainable waste solutions which the students worked on. Using scrum, they were able to work independently, and this gave them the freedom to solve problems. “It’s challenging for both teachers and students,” said physics teacher Cathy Baars, who devised the project, “because the resulting product is not fixed.”
