The Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) has a wide range of online resources to get closer to science and enjoy it alone or with the family and at any age.
Virtual exhibitions and museums, cartoons and other videos, blogs, experiments, games, apps or downloadable books on all areas of knowledge are some of these proposals. Here are several of them that can be fun to learn science at home:
GAMES, EXPERIMENTS AND TEACHING MATERIALS
Hi Score Science. Test your scientific knowledge with this App, a question and answer game available for mobile phones and computers. From ten years old.
Photosystem II: assembly and function in virtual reality. It discovers where the oxygen we breathe comes from and makes the Earth a habitable planet as we know it. Tool for teachers and young people from 14 years.
Mystery in the Botanist. Apply your botanical knowledge to solve a mysterious murder. From 9 years.
And much more!
AUDIOVISUAL TEACHING PROPOSALS
KIDS.CSIC. Web for children of Nursery and Primary with animation videos, biographies, games and interactive tests. It has guides for the classroom and for families. Carried out by the program The CSIC in the School. From 4 to 12 years.
Videos and podcast from the IMF’s Indi research and inclusive outreach group. Among these videos, Facts and Myths of Prehistory: a short film of humour and dissemination starring people with intellectual disabilities. From seven years old.
Animations and informative videos of the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA). From 9 years.
And much more!
SCIENCE FOR ALL AGES
When the stars are animated. Animation, music and humour come together to explain astronomical phenomena. From 9 years.
Youtube channel CSIC Divulga. Among many other contents, you can see scientific shows made within the framework of the Science at Christmas initiative, and interviews with authors of the collection of popularized books What do we know about…? From seven years old.
Youtube channel of the Institute of Theoretical Physics (CSIC-UAM). Entertaining and accessible explanations on topics such as particle physics, the universe and its dark matter, gravitational waves or the Higgs boson. From the age of 12 .
And much more!
CONFERENCES
Lucas Lara Cycle from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía.
Jam Science. Talks about various scientific fields in a relaxed environment, which you can see here and here.
Demography cycle promoted today by the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography.
Friday Talks of the Institute of Marine Sciences.
And much more!
COMPETITIONS
Inspiraciencia. Contest of scientific stories that will open its new call in the near future. You can get inspired by some of their videos on the Youtube channel of the project.
Children’s short story and painting contest ‘My visit to the National Museum of Natural Sciences’, for children between 5 and 12 years old.
Micro and nano film contest of the festival ’10alamenos9′. For students from 3rd and 4th of ESO and 1st and 2nd of Bachillerato.
And much more!
BLOGS AND RADIO PROGRAMS
Science to take away. CSIC’s blog at 20Minutos.es.
The square of the circle. Log of the CSIC Andalusia in eldiario.es.
The Radioscope. Program of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía at Radio Andalucía Información.
And much more!
MAGAZINES AND DIGITAL INTERVIEWS
Naturally. Magazine of the National Museum of Natural Sciences.
Información y actualidad astronómica. Journal of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía.
The newspaper of the Botanical Garden. Monthly newspaper of the Royal Botanical Garden.
Stories by astronomers. Articles by Miguel Ángel Pérez-Torres (IAA astrophysicist) in the journal Astronomía.
Find these and more online ressources at their website!
