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The Holy Cross School Global Warming Project - planning details
This project was part of an international collaboration with colleagues in Romania.
These questions were sent to Romania, where Dr. Dan Sporea supplied the answers.
1) What is the name of the school in Bucharest that we will be sharing ideas with, and the name of the main teacher involved?
- The Theoretical High School “Grigore Moisil” in Bucharest, with Mrs Mihaela Garabet, Teacher of Physics
2) What are your particular aims for the project?
- Educate school students in science research through problem-solving learning
- Development of a team approach in doing class work and running a project
- Development of an active citizenship and social responsibility
- Training students to learn to listen and evaluate different opinions
- Inter-cultural perspective building
3) What do you hope will be the learning outcomes for your students?
- Care for the future of the environment
- Learning to apply physics/ chemistry to interpret/ solve real life problems
- Learning to support in their ideas and to defend them with scientific arguments
- To form an international team of youngsters to defend a common cause
- To learn better to express their opinions into a foreign language
4) How long do you think the project will be running in Bucharest?
- 6 months to handle different experiments and activities at national and between the two school
5) Any other information that you think would interest scientists in the UK, and that you might want us to work on together?
- The school partnership will be supported bye the Center for Science Education and Training – CSET, acting at the National Institute for Laser Physics, (http://education.inflpr.ro). CSET is coordinating the national educational network “Hands-on Science – Romania” and is member of and has international corporations with: the International “Hands-on Science” Association, the Network for Youth Excellence; European Science Events Association - EUSCEA , European Science Education Research Association - ESERA ; the New England Board of Higher Education (USA); the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, (USA); MirandaNet; The Holy Cross School, (UK); Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, (Serbia).
- All over the year CSET is organizing science related activities in schools: science clubs, science fairs; contests, training courses for teachers and school staff.
- Every year CSET organizes an international workshop on “Science Education in School”. CSET staff is delivering courses, demo session and is organizing science related events for school students in less privileged areas, in locations w also ith high unemployment rates or with rroma minorities. The project is supported by Vernier International, a leading educational products provider.
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