Scientix 2 – Cycle 2 Teachers’ panel kick-off 2 at EUN headquarters (Brussels)

This post collects relevant facts from my attendance from 12-14 of September 2014 to the Scientix 2 – Cycle 2 Teachers’ panel kick-off 2 held at EUN headquaters (Brussels) . There I’ve been nominated as National Scientix Deputy Ambassador (SDA) for Spain from September 2014 to April 2015. 48 STEM teachers from all over the Europe …

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Correlations among problem-solving and PISA performance in maths, science and reading

Reviewing the last PISA report (2014) about «Are 15-year-olds creative problem-solvers?» available at European Schoolnet Academy (PDF) site, I found this figure: It shows the latent correlation between performance in Mathematics, Reading, Science and Problem-solving. Probably nothing unexpected in the overall data but I’d like to highlight, in my modest opinion, two noticeable correlations: Problem-solving …

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CAS_STEM: Exposiciones del curso 2013-2014

Exposiciones del Departamento de Ciencias y Tecnologías del Colegio Apostol Santiago. Curso 2013-2014 En el primer trimestre los alumnos de Bioloxía e Xeoloxía de 4º de ESO hicieron un trabajo de investigación sobre los científicos más relevantes en el conocimiento de las células. Entre todos los grupos crearon un cartel en formato línea del tiempo …

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CAS_ICT: Using ICT tools for teaching Sciences

ICT for Chemistry and Physics Grade 9th To teach Chemistry and Physics we use Moodle as our LMS. With Moodle we went beyond a repository and we set up many and different learning activities as for example: A choice activity to choose an independent variable for a scientific project One assignment to submit final reports …

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CAS_STEM: Projects Based Learning 2013-2014

 Chemistry and Physics Grade 9th Building a pendulum for testing an hypothesis (scientific methodology).        Using a Java Virtual Lab to find out cola samples which are in bad conditions Submission of personal Science e-Portfolios to participate in a course peer asessment   Biology and Geology Grade 10th  Research about relevant scientist who provides useful knowledge for …

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