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MISStoHIT activities in San Felix school Ortuella

By Ekaitz PolledoSeptember 25, 20171 Comment

Last June, San Felix school in Ortuella (Spain) implemented some of MISStoHIT’s activities in its classrooms. On the one hand, the students of Compulsory Secondary Education 1st year carried out activities about electrical current. Among the activities...

Miss to Hit test lesson: The four seasons

By Ekaitz PolledoJune 16, 2017No Comments

In MisstoHit we develop 10 didactic units. All units are tested with at least 50 students from two different countries. NEMO Science Museum is working on a didactic unit about seasons on earth. In June the first concepts of this unit were tested. What...

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Testing conduction activities

By Ekaitz PolledoApril 24, 2017No Comments

Judith Bal, Meie van Laar – NEMO Science Museum Conduction is one of the topics on which big misconceptions exist with secondary education students in the Netherlands. NEMO Science Museum developed a set of activities to try and change the existing...

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Developing the Rolling, Falling, Sliding activity

By Ekaitz PolledoApril 24, 2017No Comments

Judith Bal, Meie van Laar – NEMO Science Museum Heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects, this is a common misconception at secondary schools in the Netherlands, was the starting point for a new activity we developed

Sensale’s first hands-on activity

By Ekaitz PolledoApril 04, 2017No Comments

Liceo Sensale students have carried out five hand-on activities aimed at correcting misconceptions. The first one was Greenhouse effect. We wanted to demonstrate that this phenomenon is not bad for our planet. First of all the students were asked...

Testing conduction activities

By Ekaitz PolledoMarch 15, 2017No Comments

Conduction is one of the topics on which big misconceptions exist with secondary education students in the Netherlands. NEMO Science Museum developed a set of activities to try and change the existing misconceptions. We tested these at a secondary school...

Greenhouse effect

By Ekaitz PolledoDecember 20, 2016No Comments

The greenhouse effect is often associated by students to concepts like the ozone hole or UV rays and also perceived strongly negative for the Earth. Many students do not know that if Earth’s atmosphere did not have greenhouse gases, the temperatures...

Developing the Rolling, Falling, Sliding activity

By Ekaitz PolledoNovember 15, 2016No Comments

Heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects, this is a common misconception at secondary schools in the Netherlands, was the starting point for a new activity we developed Designing a hands-on activity After researching the subject we found out that...

Racing tracks and marble runs in the classroom: Testing the electricity unit

By Ekaitz PolledoOctober 01, 2016No Comments

As a researcher in the MisstoHit project I collected a lot of toys. Friends and family offered their race tracks and marble runs for me so that I could bring playful material to the classroom for hands-on experimentation on the topic of electricity. ...