Sharing Good Practice From European Science Education Projects: XploreHealth and Unischoolabs as Part of the Scientix Platform Premysl Velek - Agueda Gras-Velazquez - Barbara Schwarzenbacher - Evita Tasiopoulou European Schoolnet, Belgium 8 June 2012 | EDEN Annual Conference | Porto, Portugal
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Sharing Good Practice From European Science Education Projects: XploreHealth and Unischoolabs as Part of the Scientix Platform
School collaboration • Science & industry and schools • Teachers associations • Portals and resources • Tools and experiments • Science museums and
amusement parks
Scientix European Conference 6-8 May 2011, Brussels
Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development
Scientix European Conference 6-8 May 2011, Brussels
Conclusions:
• The quality of every science education system depends ultimately on
the quality of its teachers
• Science teaching practice: inquiry-based approach, learning by doing,
first-hand contact with real research
• Teachers should combine excellent knowledge of their subject with
excellent pedagogical and assessment skills
• Promoting and sharing best practices across Europe
Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development
Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development
Scientix workshops Present, share, highlight and inspire good practices,
linked to the specific content offered by Scientix and
take into account the latest development in the field
of science and maths education and the results
produced by EU funded projects.
• GIREP 2010, Reins, France
• Eminent 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark
• eTwinning Conference 2011, Budapest,
Hungary
• Pathway summer school 2011, Heraklion,
Crete
• SPICE summer academy 2011, Prague,
Czech Republic
• Establish Conference 2012, Dublin, Ireland
• eTwinning Workshop 2012, Druskininkai,
Lithuania
XploreHealth is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development
http://www.xplorehealth.eu/
Coordinated by: The Parc Científic Barcelona (PCB) http://www.pcb.ub.edu
Partners: Centre of the Cell, United Kingdom European Schooolnet (EUN), Belgium European network of science centres and museums (Ecsite), Belgium Ubach Munné y Asociados, Spain
XploreHealth A European gateway to the science and research of health, through online and offline innovative activities aimed at citizens, patients, pupils and teachers
XploreHealth is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development
Objectives Build and promote an online and offline interactive environment to create an active engagement of society with health science and research around health research projects.
How? • Developing attractive, accessible and rigorous resources • Organising on-site events (in schools and science centres) • Developing web portal for students, teachers, patient associations and the public
Mission Communicate medicine research and its results, promote scientific literacy and stimulate dialogue between science and society
XploreHealth is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development
The portal offers modules on various health research topics:
XploreHealth is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development
XploreHealth is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development
It’s Lab Time!
Connecting Schools to Universities’ Remote Laboratories
Coordinated by Scienter
UniSchooLabS is funded with support from the European Commission. This presentation reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Partners:
UniSchooLabS is funded with support from the European Commission. This presentation reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
• Making Universities’ Laboratories available to primary and secondary schools
• Developing a Toolkit for teachers to help them use the laboratories in their teaching The UniSchooLabs tool-kit will support teachers in selecting a remote or virtual lab and developing a lab activity based on an inquiry model template.
Remote laboratory Run by a university or science center Accessible online, experiments can be observed in real time, learner controls the equipment
UniSchooLabS is funded with support from the European Commission. This presentation reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Simulation of real world experimental data Virtual laboratory
UniSchooLabS is funded with support from the European Commission. This presentation reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Remote labs and primary / secondary schools Existing barriers
• Lack of awareness about existence & accessibility of labs among science teachers
• Information which university labs are suitable for use in primary or secondary school teaching hard to find
• Most teaching and learning materials of remote labs not geared towards younger students and not available in many languages
• Pioneer teachers are not networked • Demand well-established school - university collaboration
UniSchooLabS is funded with support from the European Commission. This presentation reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Tool-kit components
• Remote/Virtual labs’ catalogue Teachers can quickly browse through the available labs and select the one that matches their needs
• Good practices 12 good practices in astronomy, physics and chemistry; all ready to use in the classroom