Press release: Danish Education Minister opens European Teaching Festival

(Berlin/Copenhagen, 13 April 2011) On 16 April 2011, the Danish education minister Troels Lund Poulsen will welcome 250 science teachers from across Europe at the opening of the Science on Stage teaching festival. Over four days, the teachers present innovative concepts for science lessons in terms of experiments, workshops, science shows and exchange their ideas with European colleagues. The projects address current and socially relevant questions in education. Veronika Gallus, a teacher from Germany, for instance, presents the project 'Radioactivity - curse or blessing?' In class, she discusses hopes, fears and threats caused by the civil use of nuclear energy as well as the application of radioactive substances in technology and research from an interdisciplinary perspective. This includes bending 1000 origami cranes based on a Japanese legend.

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