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Train the Trainer & Science Workshops

Training for educators and facilitators. Science workshops and talks for children, young people and adults.

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LanguagesAll courses, workshops and talks can be delivered in German, English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Train-the-Trainer

01

Supporting children’s scientific inquiry – simple STEM ideas for practice

How can children’s natural curiosity lead to independent inquiry? Participants turn everyday situations into simple, effective learning opportunities.

Topics

  • Develop research questions from everyday situations
  • Make a clear distinction between observing, describing and explaining
  • Design simple STEM activities using readily available materials
  • Encourage children to make predictions, try things out and develop their thinking
  • Take different interests, languages and approaches to learning into account
  • Reflect on your role in supporting children’s learning

Practical activities

Participants learn to build on children’s questions and observations and support independent inquiry. Content and focus are adapted to the educational context.

Who is it for?
Early childhood educators, primary school teachers, educators working in leisure and after-school settings, and others supporting children in educational and recreational activities.
Format
A short workshop or a professional development programme over several sessions.
Prior knowledge
No prior subject knowledge is required.
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02

Designing learning through movement – teaching mathematics and physics with music, dance and play

Mathematics and physics become a whole-body experience. Educators learn how to use movement, music, dance and play to support mathematical and scientific learning.

Topics

  • Experience rhythm, patterns and repetition
  • Explore tempo, time and speed through play
  • Discover balance, forces and movement through the body
  • Represent shapes, symmetry and angles through movement
  • Connect observation, prediction and explanation
  • Adapt activities to different age groups and physical abilities

Practical activities

Participants try out the activities themselves and develop ideas they can use directly in their educational practice.

Who is it for?
Early childhood educators, primary school teachers, educators working in leisure and after-school settings, and others working with groups of children.
Format
A short workshop or a professional development programme over several sessions.
Prior knowledge
No specialist knowledge of mathematics, physics or dance is required.
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03

Mathematics begins in everyday life – discovering and designing learning environments

Mathematics begins long before numbers and worksheets: when we compare, estimate, sort, share, build, plan and explain. Everyday situations offer rich learning environments.

Topics

  • Recognise mathematical opportunities in familiar everyday situations
  • Use shopping, cooking, movement, nature and public spaces as places to learn
  • Connect estimating, measuring, comparing, sorting and planning
  • Encourage children to model, justify and represent their ideas
  • Develop activities that move from concrete experience towards mathematical abstraction
  • Design learning environments for your own educational practice

Practical activities

Participants explore selected examples and use them to develop their own ideas for groups or classes. Different age groups, approaches to learning and organisational settings are taken into account.

Who is it for?
Early childhood educators, primary school teachers, educators working in leisure and after-school settings, and others wishing to connect mathematics education with everyday life.
Format
Practical professional development with opportunities to design your own learning environments.
Prior knowledge
No specialist mathematical knowledge is required.
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04

Mathematical thinking in the age of AI – tasks that help children progress

When artificial intelligence (AI) produces results in seconds, questions, connections, individual approaches and critical checking become more important. Children’s ideas, strategies and reasoning are at the centre.

Topics

  • Recognise tasks with strong potential for learning and thinking
  • Develop open-ended and productive tasks
  • Make room for different approaches and representations
  • Support problem solving, modelling, reasoning, representation and communication
  • Observe children’s mathematical thinking and make it visible
  • Critically examine results, solution strategies and AI-generated answers
  • Develop existing tasks further without extensive additional materials

Practical activities

Participants work with concrete examples from primary education and develop tasks for their own practice. Children’s mathematical thinking becomes visible in their questions, representations, discussions and approaches to solving problems.

Who is it for?
Primary school teachers, student teachers and other education professionals.
Format
A short workshop or a professional development programme over several sessions. Content and focus are adapted to the participants and institutional setting.
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05

Young children, big questions – discovering and supporting physics learning in early childhood

Children encounter physics when swinging, cycling, cooking, playing, washing and doing sports. This course shows how to recognise opportunities for physics learning and turn them into accessible activities.

Topics

  • Discover physical phenomena in familiar everyday settings
  • Investigate movement, forces, balance, friction, heat, light and energy
  • Use playgrounds, kitchens, the home, sports and everyday travel as learning environments
  • Develop good scientific questions from observations
  • Design simple investigations using readily available materials
  • Encourage children to predict, experiment, explain and ask further questions
  • Connect experience, language and scientific concepts in meaningful ways

Practical activities

Participants try out selected activities and develop their own ideas for educational practice. Real experience is the starting point; scientific explanations are then built together.

Who is it for?
Early childhood educators, primary school teachers, educators working in leisure and after-school settings, and others working with groups of children.
Format
Practical professional development; content and focus are adapted to the participants, learning environment and institutional setting.
Prior knowledge
No specialist knowledge of physics is required.
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STEM for everyone

06

Everyday life through a scientific lens – rediscovering mathematics and physics

Mathematics and physics surround us when we play, cook, walk, cycle, listen to music and spend time in nature. We look at familiar situations through a scientific lens.

Topics

  • Recognise mathematical and physical phenomena in everyday life
  • Carry out simple experiments with readily available materials
  • Observe, ask questions and develop explanations together
  • Support children’s learning through discovery
  • Connect science with movement, language and personal experience

Practical activities

Participants take a fresh look at familiar situations and develop questions and explanations together. Content, duration and level of difficulty are adapted to the group.

Who is it for?
Parents, grandparents, educators and anyone who would like to explore mathematics and science in an accessible way connected to everyday life.
Format
A talk, interactive workshop or professional development session.
Prior knowledge
No prior knowledge of mathematics or physics is required.
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07

STEM in motion – discovering mathematics and physics through music, dance and play

This interactive workshop offers a whole-body experience of scientific connections through music, dance, movement and shared play.

Topics

  • Hear rhythm, patterns and repetition and express them through movement
  • Explore tempo, time and speed through play
  • Experience balance, forces and movement through the body
  • Discover shapes, symmetry and angles through dance
  • Estimate and measure distances, sizes and movement
  • Experiment, observe and develop questions together

Practical activities

The focus is on enjoying movement and discovering together. All exercises can be adapted to different physical abilities.

Who is it for?
Adults, families, educators and groups spanning different generations.
Format
An interactive workshop.
Prior knowledge
No specialist knowledge of mathematics, physics or dance is required.
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08

From our bodies to the stars – a journey through space and time

An engaging journey from the human body, through Earth and the Solar System, to stars and galaxies, using images, simple models and everyday examples.

Topics

  • Compare sizes and distances in accessible ways
  • Get to know Earth, the Solar System and the Universe
  • Understand light as a carrier of information
  • Discover how astrophysicists study stars
  • Understand how observations lead to scientific knowledge
  • Ask your own questions and explore ideas together

Practical activities

Images, simple models and everyday examples make even distant scales easier to imagine. Content and level of difficulty are adapted to participants’ ages and prior knowledge.

Who is it for?
Adults, families, children, young people and groups spanning different generations.
Format
An engaging talk or interactive workshop.
Prior knowledge
No prior knowledge of mathematics or science is required.
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09

The home as a research laboratory – discovering mathematics and physics in everyday life

Cooking, washing, furnishing a home, playing and saving energy raise surprising questions about mathematics and physics. Everyday materials turn the home into a research laboratory.

Topics

  • Use quantities, measurements and ratios in everyday life
  • Explore areas, shapes and spaces
  • Investigate heat, water, light and energy
  • Recognise levers, friction and movement in everyday situations
  • Understand energy consumption and discover ways to save energy
  • Create simple experiments with everyday materials

Practical activities

Participants observe, estimate, measure, compare and experiment. Adults can carry out the activities on their own or together with children.

Who is it for?
Adults, families, educators and groups spanning different generations.
Format
A practical session; content and focus are adapted to the participants and event setting.
Prior knowledge
No prior knowledge of mathematics or physics is required.
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