SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
2004/2005 and 2005/2006
Aims
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to stimulate and raise pupils' curiosity about the surrounding natural and technological world
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to promote a direct, active participation of the pupils
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to develop process skills, such as observing, questioning, hypothesizing, predicting, investigating, interpreting, and communicating, that play an essential role in helping children develop a scientific way of thinking
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to improve the children’s ability to work independently
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to create a positive effect on the attitudes the pupils have for science
- to contribute to fill the gap between school and real world
- to enhance collaboration between pupils
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to provide a basis for lifelong learning
- to take account of the pupils’ different attitudes and learning styles
The topics
- electricity and batteries
- light, colours and vision
- shapes and dimensions in the living beings
- motion
General approach
Starting from a hint, usually a situation in the everyday life ---> Asking questions and recalling prior ideas--->Selecting questions ---> Planning direct experimentations to answer the questions--------> Making direct or instrument-aided observation ---> Finding out information in books or Internet ---> Constructing knowledge ---> Sharing and disseminating discovers: pupils as teachers
