In almost all the reform-based documents, models have consistently been recognized as one of the major unifying ideas that transcend disciplinary boundaries and pervade all scientific, mathematical, and technological fields. Hestenes (1987) describes a model as a representation of structure in a physical system.He also states that a model is a substitute object, a conceptual representation of a real thing. A number of science educators suggest that “models of simulations” offer considerable
Welcome to the Community for the Eratosthenes Experiment 2015-19 for the Measurement of the Earth's Circumference! For details on the event and the latest photo contest, please see here and here. Guidelines for participation STEPS TO FOLLOW Find the time of your local noon at your location. Please use the web-based NOAA Solar Calculator or Solar Calculator or the Stellarium software (a short guide for using the Stellarium software to calculate your local noon at your location can be found here)
We are happy to announce the GEOTHNK International Scenario Contest WINNERS We would like to thank you for participating in the GEOTHNK International Scenario Contest The quality of all scenarios has been exceptionally high which results to useful and valuable education material for the students’ development of geospatial skills! Our designated Jury has just announced the results. Here are the winners in alphabetical order: Christos Harharos Foteini Karatza Dimitiris Mamouras Eugenia-Victoria
This is the educational community of the project GOSTEAM. GOSTEAM addresses teachers/educational staff, as well as secondary education students, cultivating students’ cognitive abilities and skills, such as problem-solving and critical thinking, in the interdisciplinary context of environmental literacy and global awareness. GOSTEAM is a three-year duration (2020-2023) KA2 Strategic Partnership in the field of school education, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. It
Η κοινότητα αυτή αφορά τα Ελληνικά σχολεία που συμμετέχουν στις δράσεις του Islands Diversity. Μέσα από την κοινότητα αυτή, θα γίνει ο συντονισμός των δράσεων για τα ελληνικά σχολεία, ενώ οι έλληνες εκπαιδευτικοί θα έχουν τη δυνατότητα να ανταλλάξουν ιδέες και να συνεργαστούν.
The Open Science Resources (OSR) community enables you to access the finest digital collections in European science centres and museums, to follow educational pathways connecting objects tagged with semantic metadata and to enrich the contents provided with social tags of your own choice. The OSR community contains educational material in the form of educational content (images of exhibits and scientific instruments, videos, animations, exercises, graphs, links) and of educational pathways
Το Πρόγραμμα για τη Σχολική Καινοτομία συμβάλλει στην αναβάθμιση του εκπαιδευτικού έργου στα Ελληνικά σχολεία. Το Πρόγραμμα έρχεται να συνεχίσει και επεκτείνει το έργο του Δικτύου Σχολικής Καινοτομίας της «Μορφωτικής Πρωτοβουλίας» (www.protovoulia.org) υποστηρίζοντας τους εκπαιδευτικούς και τα σχολεία ώστε να αναλάβουν τις αναγκαίες πρωτοβουλίες και καινοτόμες δραστηριότητες, και έτσι να βελτιώσουν σταδιακά όλες τις επιμέρους πτυχές της σχολικής ζωής και της μάθησης, στις ηλικίες από 4 έως και
