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Guess my Garden Maths Group

Random as a mathematics concept is complex and known to be problematic for students. However, chance is the base for many games and playing games is fun. Random Garden is a micro-world that lets the learner manipulate the sample space of a peculiar random generator. According to math literature, the concept of randomness presents some key aspects that characterize its nature. Guess my Garden focuses on: the concept of independence of events generated within a given process at different moments; and the dichotomies fairness vs. unfairness, predictability vs. unpredictability, determinism vs.
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Guess my Garden Science Group

Random as a mathematics concept is complex and known to be problematic for students. However, chance is the base for many games and playing games is fun. Random Garden is a micro-world that lets the learner manipulate the sample space of a peculiar random generator. According to math literature, the concept of randomness presents some key aspects that characterize its nature. Guess my Garden focuses on: the concept of independence of events generated within a given process at different moments; and the dichotomies fairness vs. unfairness, predictability vs. unpredictability, determinism vs.
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Heat and Temperature

A lesson plan suitable for Junior Cert students on the concept of heat and temperature. This lesson focuses on the fourth big idea in science: The total amount of energy in the Universe is always the same because energy cannot be created nor destroyed instead it is converted from one form to another.
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HOBOS – To Be(e) or not to Be(e)

Secondary school students (13-14 years of age) learn about the achievement of honeybees, focusing on the temperature regulation in the bee hive. The structure of this learn-unit is based on the inquiry approach and includes interactive eLearning elements. The eLearning-material contains various data and live streams of the internet platform HOBOS (HOneyBee Online Studies). HOBOS is based on a specially conceived beehive which is equipped with sensors, measuring devices and several cameras, as well as a thermo graphic camera.
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HOBOS – To Be(e) or not to Be(e) Biology Group

Secondary school students (13-14 years of age) learn about the achievement of honeybees, focusing on the temperature regulation in the bee hive. The structure of this learn-unit is based on the inquiry approach and includes interactive eLearning elements. The eLearning-material contains various data and live streams of the internet platform HOBOS (HOneyBee Online Studies). HOBOS is based on a specially conceived beehive which is equipped with sensors, measuring devices and several cameras, as well as a thermo graphic camera.
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HOBOS – To Be(e) or not to Be(e) Maths Group

Secondary school students (13-14 years of age) learn about the achievement of honeybees, focusing on the temperature regulation in the bee hive. The structure of this learn-unit is based on the inquiry approach and includes interactive eLearning elements. The eLearning-material contains various data and live streams of the internet platform HOBOS (HOneyBee Online Studies). HOBOS is based on a specially conceived beehive which is equipped with sensors, measuring devices and several cameras, as well as a thermo graphic camera.
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HOBOS – To Be(e) or not to Be(e) Science Group

Secondary school students (13-14 years of age) learn about the achievement of honeybees, focusing on the temperature regulation in the bee hive. The structure of this learn-unit is based on the inquiry approach and includes interactive eLearning elements. The eLearning-material contains various data and live streams of the internet platform HOBOS (HOneyBee Online Studies). HOBOS is based on a specially conceived beehive which is equipped with sensors, measuring devices and several cameras, as well as a thermo graphic camera.
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Introduction to Angles

A short lesson introducing first years to angles and how they make up numerous geometrical shapes in maths.
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Probability through Casinos and Gambling

This is an introduction to probability for beginners. They will learn about the basic concepts through everyday common knowledge such as a hand in poker, a horse running a race or roulette. By the end of the lesson, the students should be able to calculate the probability of such events.
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The Basketball Shot Biology Group

The use of video capture and data analysis to explain projectile motion and the concepts of velocity and acceleration.
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The Basketball Shot Maths Group

The use of video capture and data analysis to explain projectile motion and the concepts of velocity and acceleration.
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The Basketball Shot Science Group

The use of video capture and data analysis to explain projectile motion and the concepts of velocity and acceleration.
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The Blue Planet

The students will learn how to prepare a Guided Tour for illustrating the video presentation of the Blue Planet seen from a distance. They will have to explain why this planet is blue and they will have to use this particularity for attracting tourists from other planets on the Earth. Everything will happen in the far future. Is it an imagination exercise.
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The Blue Planet

The students will learn how to create and present a video clip Guided Tour of the Earth, illustrating our Blue Planet as seen from a distance. They will have to explain why our planet is blue and why it supports life. They will use these particular features to attract tourists from other planets to come and visit planet Earth.
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The Planet’s Atmosphere

Students come to understand the basic structure of our atmosphere and how its relevant attributes change with altitude.
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