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TITLE
Science for the youngest, interdisciplinary teaching and self-evaluation
WEBSITE OF THE PRODUCT
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Science on Stage
(SonSD)
(SonSD)
TYPE OF PRODUCT
Downloadable material
SUBJECT TAUGHT
Natural Science
LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE
Medium
TARGET GROUP AGE
14 – 16 years old
TUTORIAL SUPPORT
Yes
DESCRIPTION
Science on Stage offers teaching materials developed from European STEM teachers for STEM teachers. All materials are free of charge and can be downloaded here.
Please use the search box on the left side or the 'magnifying glass' on the upper left corner to search for your field of interest and filter your request by ticking off the option 'teaching material' in the checkbox.
All materials are licensed as Creative Commons unless otherwise noted: Attribution - Non-commercial - Share alike
Literature:
Meyer, H.: “Was ist guter Unterricht?“ Cornelsen Verlag Scriptor GmbH
& Co. KG, Berlin 2004
Müller, A.: “Instrument NaWiKomp“, Koblenz University, Landau, 2006
Schaefer, G. (Editor): “Allgemeinbildung durch Naturwissenschaften“,
Memorandum of the GDNÄ-Bildungskommission 2002 + Amendment 2007,
Aulis Verlag Deubner 2007
Please use the search box on the left side or the 'magnifying glass' on the upper left corner to search for your field of interest and filter your request by ticking off the option 'teaching material' in the checkbox.
All materials are licensed as Creative Commons unless otherwise noted: Attribution - Non-commercial - Share alike
Literature:
Meyer, H.: “Was ist guter Unterricht?“ Cornelsen Verlag Scriptor GmbH
& Co. KG, Berlin 2004
Müller, A.: “Instrument NaWiKomp“, Koblenz University, Landau, 2006
Schaefer, G. (Editor): “Allgemeinbildung durch Naturwissenschaften“,
Memorandum of the GDNÄ-Bildungskommission 2002 + Amendment 2007,
Aulis Verlag Deubner 2007
COMMENTS
Points of strength
- Multilingual
- Material to the topics: Interdisciplinary Teaching (scientific and non scientific subject)” and “Self-perception and self-evaluation”.
- Clear structuring of the teaching process:
- Creation of an environment conducive to learning
- Clarity of content
- Diversity of methods
- Intelligent exercises
- Appropriately prepared environment
Science on Stage invites STEM teachers of all school levels to exchange teaching concepts and to share ideas. Through various activities, the network has reached about 100.000 teachers and teacher trainers in over 30 European countries based on an extrapolation by the country representatives in 2015.
The impetus for all activities are the European Science on Stage festivals. They are held every two years in a different European country, organised by the host member country.
These festivals have developed to be Europe's biggest science teaching event. It is not only the size, but also the technical quality, the international atmosphere and the enthusiastic spirit which make these events so unique.
Subsequent activities of the Science on Stage festivals focus on sharing, developing and sustaining the inspiration gained at the festival.
These follow-up activities include workshops, teacher-training courses, travel scholarships for teacher exchange programmes, publications of brochures and teaching materials and collaborative projects with industry.
- Multilingual
- Material to the topics: Interdisciplinary Teaching (scientific and non scientific subject)” and “Self-perception and self-evaluation”.
- Clear structuring of the teaching process:
- Creation of an environment conducive to learning
- Clarity of content
- Diversity of methods
- Intelligent exercises
- Appropriately prepared environment
Science on Stage invites STEM teachers of all school levels to exchange teaching concepts and to share ideas. Through various activities, the network has reached about 100.000 teachers and teacher trainers in over 30 European countries based on an extrapolation by the country representatives in 2015.
The impetus for all activities are the European Science on Stage festivals. They are held every two years in a different European country, organised by the host member country.
These festivals have developed to be Europe's biggest science teaching event. It is not only the size, but also the technical quality, the international atmosphere and the enthusiastic spirit which make these events so unique.
Subsequent activities of the Science on Stage festivals focus on sharing, developing and sustaining the inspiration gained at the festival.
These follow-up activities include workshops, teacher-training courses, travel scholarships for teacher exchange programmes, publications of brochures and teaching materials and collaborative projects with industry.
TEACHERS’ COMMENT
Science on Stage Europe is a network for STEM teachers, not only in Europe [1]. It contains a large number of exercises for the classroom, of which the SH researchers selected three sets for the RS teachers to evaluate.
The first was Lilu’s House (https://www.science-on-stage.eu/page/display/112/114/0/lilus-house-additional-materials) which contains a set of STEM experiments based on familiar items in the home. In addition to their function as subject matter in chemistry, physics, etc, they double as English language learning lessons (Content and Language Integrated Learning—CLIL) and give an opportunity for pupils with different backgrounds to tell about their home cultures.
The RS teachers, however, did not feel the experiments were suited for mathematics lessons.
[1] Science On Stage Europe: https://www.science-on-stage.eu/. Accessed: 2020-11-24.
The first was Lilu’s House (https://www.science-on-stage.eu/page/display/112/114/0/lilus-house-additional-materials) which contains a set of STEM experiments based on familiar items in the home. In addition to their function as subject matter in chemistry, physics, etc, they double as English language learning lessons (Content and Language Integrated Learning—CLIL) and give an opportunity for pupils with different backgrounds to tell about their home cultures.
The RS teachers, however, did not feel the experiments were suited for mathematics lessons.
[1] Science On Stage Europe: https://www.science-on-stage.eu/. Accessed: 2020-11-24.