Hosted by OSOS , contributed by vtsamis on 29 July 2020
The specific project engages students in employing both historical literature search and real‐problem solving skills, handling and studying situations, and participating in meaningful and motivating science inquiry activities. The deal with real seismic data that they have acquired themselves while they have to communicate their findings to the local communities. A complicated geophysical phenomenon like the earthquake is possible to be studied in the classroom with the use of a simple instrument and results can be obtained with the combination of data from the collaborating schools.
Students are also asked to use real seismical data in order to analyze a specific earthquake. In order to accomplish this task, an example is given.
For the real time data, students are directed to access the School Network Alerts Citizens (SNAC) an EU-ERASMUS project
The project is being developed in the framework of OSOS. It adresses the challenge of the study of arthquakes, a physical phenomenon with has always had a great societal impact, since the beginning of history and proposes pedagogical practices based on inquiry‐based methods that are more effective in science education. The objective of this combination is on one hand to increase children’s and student’s interest in science, on how science is made and how it affects everyday life, and on the other to stimulate teacher motivation on up‐taking innovative teaching methods, subjects and practices to enrich and renew the science curriculum.