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Our educational resources are made up of offerings for both students and teachers. They include animated games and easy to use Nobel Prize lessons.
Many Nobel Prize laureates testify that a certain teacher challenged or encouraged them, and that the experience has been crucial to the choices they made in life. Through our educational efforts we want to assure many more students experience the feeling of a genuine aha-moment.
How much do you know about the achievements awarded the 2024 Nobel Prizes? Take our one-minute crash course on each of the prizes and find out how each have changed our world.
A Nobel Prize lesson about the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded for the discovery of microRNA and its function in gene regulation.
A Nobel Prize lesson about the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for methods that lay the foundation for the development of artificial intelligence (AI).
A Nobel Prize lesson about the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded for using computers and artificial intelligence (AI) to crack the code for the structures of proteins.
A Nobel Prize lesson about the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang.
A Nobel Prize lesson about the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, an organisation comprised of survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A Nobel Prize lesson about the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel economic sciences prize, awarded for explaining why certain countries are rich and others are poor.
A Nobel Prize lesson about all the 2024 Nobel Prizes, including a quiz.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930
What happens if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type? Play a game where you save patients’ lives and learn about human blood types and blood typing.
What happens when a cell dies inside the body and how does the body know when to make new cells? As Cell Division Supervisor inside the cell nucleus, your job in this game is to control cell division to make sure each stage of the cell cycle occurs in the correct order.
In this game, your mission as a camp commander is to run a prisoner of war camp without violating any human rights. You must follow the humanitarian standards outlined in the Third Geneva Convention.
In this game you are to assist during an MRI investigation and afterwards sort some images. You can earn five magnets out of five if you are good at memory games and know the differences between MRI, X-ray and CAT images!
In this game you can train a dog to drool on command! It’s all about conditioned learning.
This fast-paced game relies on a keen knowledge of food containing vitamin B1 and good keyboard skills to save lives. You have one minute to feed chickens suffering from beriberi with the correct food to stop them from dying.
Chiral molecules can be used to control or speed up different chemical reactions. In this little game you are to decide which objects are chiral and which ones are not!
Perspectives on life
Ever wondered how Nobel Prize laureates think about the world? Watch the video series where laureates share their challenges and how the lessons they learnt can help us navigate our own lives.
How much do you know about the discoveries awarded the 2023 Nobel Prizes? Take our one-minute crash course on each of the prizes and find out how each have changed our world.
This new course will equip students with the tools scientists use to make sense of the world around them. By learning to evaluate evidence and solve problems in the face of uncertainty, young people will be ready to navigate the complex challenges of the century, and feel empowered to make better decisions.
© Nobel Prize Outreach Ill. Christina Heitmann
Step into the shoes of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and learn about the legacy of Alfred Nobel in this immersive learning experience from the Nobel Peace Center. All Minecraft players can now journey alongside Desmond Tutu, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Jody Williams and Carl von Ossietzky to bring their vision of a more democratic, peaceful world to life.
Nobel Prize in Physics 1901
X-rays were discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who received the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. Several important discoveries have been made using X-rays.
A Nobel Prize lesson on the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded for discoveries that were decisive in the development of effective mRNA vaccines for COVID-19.
© The Nobel Committe for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén
A Nobel Prize lesson on the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for experiments with short pulses of light that can capture momentary images of the movements of electrons.
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A Nobel Prize lesson on the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded for the discovery and development of quantum dots.
© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
A Nobel Prize lesson on the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse.
Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
A Nobel Prize lesson on the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for the fight for women’s rights in Iran and the right to freedom for everyone.
Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
A Nobel Prize lesson on the 2023 economic sciences prize, awarded for research that explains why there are differences in earnings between men and women.
Figure 4. Depiction of Claudia Goldin as a detective with her dog Pika.
© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
A Nobel Prize lesson on all the 2023 Nobel Prizes.
© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, © The Nobel Committe for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén, Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
A Nobel Prize lesson on the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded for discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.
© The Nobel Committe for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén
A Nobel Prize lesson on the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for experiments that make it possible to investigate and control particles that are entangled through quantum mechanics.
© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
A Nobel Prize lesson on the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The prize is about “click chemistry”, which allows researchers to construct molecules in an effective and systematic way.
© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
A Nobel Prize lesson on the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.
Annie Ernaux Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
A Nobel Prize lesson on the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for work to promote human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the neighbouring countries of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
A Nobel Prize lesson on the 2022 economic sciences prize, which is about banks, bank regulations and how financial crises should be managed.
© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
This is a ready to use Nobel Prize lesson on all the 2022 Nobel Prizes – about quantum mechanics, click chemistry, human evolution, Annie Ernaux’s writing, fight for human rights and the role of banks in financial crises.
From receptors for temperature and touch to organocatalysis. A compassionate voice of the effects of colonialism to efforts to safeguard freedom of expression. Understanding complex systems to new insights about the labour market. Now you can bring the achievements made by the 2021 Nobel Prize laureates into the classroom!
An introduction to human rights and its history. This lesson also give students an understanding of the state of human rights in different parts of the world.
Martin Luther King’s life and work are a fascinating part of an important stage of 20th-century history. His ideas extend far beyond his own time and the society in which he lived. Discrimination and conflicts because of skin color or ethnicity manifest themselves in a variety of contexts in our own world. Six short videos are included in this lesson.
Pedagogical visualisation about one half of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019, a 3-minute long video to show in the classroom and an interactive visualisation tool with a teacher’s guide.
Pedagogical visualisation about one half of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019, a 3-minute long video to show in the classroom and an interactive visualisation tool with a teacher’s guide.
Alfred Nobel was an inventor, entrepreneur, scientist and businessman who left almost his entire fortune to create a Nobel Prize. Learn more about the prize and some Nobel Prize-rewarded contributions.
Ready to use lesssons on all the 2020 Nobel Prizes. From genetic editing to combatting world hunger. An unmistakable poetic voice to black holes. New treatments for hepatitis C to the quest for the perfect auction. Now you can bring the discoveries and achievements made by the 2020 Nobel Laureates into the classroom.
Ready to use lesssons on all the 2019 Nobel Prizes. About how cells adapt to oxygen availability, universe and its history, developing the world’s most powerful battery, the authors Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke, the work by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, and research that helps us fight global poverty.
Ready to use lessons on all the 2018 Nobel Prizes, which are about laser technology, production of new enzymes and antibodies, cancer treatment, combating war crimes and integrating nature and knowledge into economics.
Here is a resource to encourage the next generation of women into science. The remarkable scientists represented in this experience are each as unique as her contribution to scientific knowledge, but all possess common traits: creativity, vision, passion and – perhaps most importantly – persistence.
The purpose of this lesson is to give students an introduction as well as an in-depth study of the literary genres utopia and dystopia and their history.
A complete lesson package about the Nobel Prize and sustainable development. The Nobel Prize helps draw attention to many research contributions and peace efforts that have affected human living conditions. Although our living conditions look better today in many ways, humanity faces major challenges.
Can you match the right physics laureate with the right discovery? Have a try!
Can you match the right chemistry laureate with the right discovery? Have a try!
Can you match the right medicine laureate with the right discovery? Have a try!
Can you match the right book title with the right Nobel Prize awarded author? Have a try!
Can you match the right peace laureate with the right accomplishment? Have a try!
Can you match the right research field to the right laureate? Have a try!
