News . Best Practices Global Warming and Chemical Pollution: OPEN SCHOOLING IN GREECE (Best Practice Greece)
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This good practice reports an open schooling activity with an open scenario developed by Panagiotis Toumpaniaris, physics teacher at the Model Junior High School of Heraklion. The activity was carried out in the above-mentioned state school in the municipality of Heraklion in Crete – Greece. The socio-scientific issue that the students decided for and engaged themselves was “Global Warming and Chemical Pollution”. The science professional was an environmental Chemistry specialist, Professor at the University of Crete in Chemistry Department, who interacted with the pupils to answer and bring up questions of the 60 pupils of the 2nd grade, who participated in this project.
CARE: A list of questions was sent to the scientist and through his presentation on the Webex Meet platform where answered.
KNOW: The school curriculum was satisfactorily connected with the chosen topic to work with. The greenhouse effect is integrated in their curriculum and was highly connected with the global warming issue. Discussion supported by participatory science has led to greater awareness of global warming and chemical pollution and provoked actions to confront and eventually solve these issues. It also changed the up to that point indifferent attitude of some of the pupils towards scientific methodology and science in general, to clear interest and positive attitude to science.
DO: Since we used an open scenario approach the students either found themselves sources or used some, we offered them. In this context they developed videos, presentations, and a game.
FINDINGS: This initiative had the consent of the parents and opened opportunities for dialogue with the family, pupils and teachers. After the appropriate modifications was integrated in the curriculum making the scientific approach a handy tool for the pupils to understand scientific methodology and to a certain degree apply it.
RESULTS FOR STUDENTS: The students who participated seem now more confident with science, they really enjoy science lessons and they have increased interest in scientific approach and problems.
1)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGXgNx3U9gM