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Classroom ideas: Making science engaging and exciting

Student engagement is a priority in the STEM subjects. Here, school leader Catrin Green offers some quick ideas to foster a love of science in students and encourage them consider it as a future career

Science explains everything around us and is without a shadow of a doubt the best subject there is. But often students see it as a list of facts to be learnt about stuff they can’t see.

It is up to us as educators to bridge that gap, using relevance, excitement, and great planning to foster a love of science before our students leave school.

Not only is it important that the students have a good grounding in science so that they can understand things in the world around them, but it is also vital for society as so many employers are searching for students with good understanding of STEM subjects but finding few with the appropriate qualifications.

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