Choose your own SCIENTIFIC adventure!
"Choose your own SCIENTIFIC adventure" is a gamified activity aimed at students in the last years of secondary school (especially 4th ESO and also Baccalaureate) to convey how biomedical research is done. Moving beyond the classical concepts of the school curriculum, we delve into the most procedural and epistemological part of research: how scientists acquire new knowledge, what questions they ask, how they answer them, what limiting factors they encounter, etc.
At IRB Barcelona we are convinced that introducing scientific methodology and thinking during formal education can greatly contribute to building a more critical and informed citizenry, regardless of whether students are heading towards a scientific profession.
Although this activity is designed for students in the last year of secondary school (4th ESO), the methodology used could be applied to any other course by slightly adapting the content.
Fake News Workshop
We put together a classroom activity for secondary school teachers addressing fake news in science. The activity focuses on how to identify such news and where to find reliable sources of information.
During the activity, students will reflect on the the information published on social networks and use a methodology that will allow them to confirm its veracity. Students will be able to work with real news.
Taller de proteïnoflexia
Explora el plegament de proteïnes utilitzant l’eina AlphaFold de Google. Aquest recurs d’intel·ligència artificial gratuït es pot utilitzar tant en els laboratoris més punters com en les aules.
Atreveix-te a descobrir com funciona el plegament de proteïnes!