The European platform for science teachers
Our virtual events
We are organising more virtual events so that STEM teachers can network, exchange ideas and receive further trainings more easily across borders. This way Science on Stage contributes to the continuous professional development of STEM-teachers across Europe.
All our virtual events are of course for free.
Webinars
With our practice-oriented webinars STEM-teachers can receive further training from home. All our speakers have participated in one of our festivals with a successful STEM-project or have been involved in one of our international teacher projects!
In addition to insights into exciting projects, our webinars give teachers the opportunity to exchange ideas with like-minded peers from all over Europe. Also they can present their own ideas and receive feedback.
The participation is free of costs. Interested in taking part? Find upcoming webinars in our event calendar.
The next events:
23.09., 17:00 “What happens next? A strategy to engage secondary students"
24.09., 17:00 “What happens next? A strategy to engage primary students”
07.10., 18:00 “Lilu’s House: Language Skills through Experiments”
15.10., 16:00 "Introduction to BBC micro:bit"
Further events are currently in planning. Stay informed with our newsletter!
Past webinars
Exploring using Explorify
Explorify is a free digital resource that provides activities to help primary school teachers do more and better science. The webinar showed how to use the resources as starter activities, assessment tools and also to support lesson planning. The important point about Explorify is that there is no language barrier to some of the resources so they can be used in any school, in any country.
Dr. Thomas Barton: Primary Science Project Manager at the Wellcome Trust. I work with the Explorify digital team and external partners to support improvements in science teaching & learning in UK primary schools. I have previously worked as a primary school teacher and science leader in London schools.
Kulvinder Johal is the Regional Mentor for London and the SE working for the Primary Science Teaching Trust. She is also a member of the ASE primary committee and is part of the Science on Stage steering committee UK. She has presented at SonS 2015 London and has been supporting the UK delegations in Debrecen 2017 and Cascais 2019. She has over 25 years experience as a primary teacher, school leader in a large multicultural school in London.
Sensing Science / Coding H2O
In this webinar for secondary teachers, the speakers presented “Coding H2O”and explained how it could be adapted by teachers with very little knowledge about coding. Using this innovative approach students can use coding to design and carry out scientific experiments in order to learn different topics in science using an inquiry-based learning methodology. After this webinar, teachers should feel confident using coding in their classes to teach science with almost no prior knowledge or experience. They also gained a global perspective about the microcontrollers available and the different programming languages their students could use.
The teaching unit is taken from the brochure "Coding in STEM Education" from the topic ‘Environment 4.0’. The project is proudly supported by SAP.
Elena Poncela has been teaching science, physics and chemistry in Spain and in the USA for more than 25 years. She is a Raspberry Pi certified educator and loves coding sensors to embed programming in her science classes.
Beatriz Padín is a physics teacher in secondary school. She really enjoys looking for innovative and motivating ways of teaching, especially with the aid of new technologies and programming. She hopes to make science classes more meaningful and engaging for students.
