Ut på tur!

It’s been a while since the last blog post about the meeting in Pistoia. On the second day we had a parallel session – I was chair person for the teachers – “Teachers’ view on CarboSchools Library: What materials do we need to teach Carbo-Topics? What materials do expect to get from CarboSchools = find in the CarboSchools library?”

Here is the results from our discussion (which were sent to the CS organizers)

Experiments

• Must have a quality check of all the resources that is put out, if we teachers know that it is checked, it might be easier to send away our ideas / experiments / projects
• Hands-on experiments
• Include documentation of “how to”
• Yesterday’s presentations
• Include background information for teachers these could be links to external pages (remember to include date and time for the link when it was added – Google Cache)

Teaching resources

• Access to new research results, hopefully together with ideas to activities connected to the new research
• Quality check
• Ideas for projects that can be used “in the classroom” / with students
• Animations

Instruments

• “Instrument” library w/tutorials – list over instruments that can be borrowed at the research institutes
• Reviews of different instruments – recommendations of good instruments, also about experiences that was not so good

Organization

• The content must be organized
• Main topics / categories – links to the main topics where the experiments are found
• Search engine (if the content grows)
• Discussion forum for teachers and students
• Possibility to find partner schools / teachers – contact information to CS teachers and teachers who uses CS library and are interested in collaboration with other teachers who are doing CS experiments / projects
• Section that includes final results from / with students (videos, animations, reports etc) – can be in native language, but should include an abstract in English

Where do we usually find them?

• SchoolCO2Web
• Wikipedia
• Google
• Encyclopaedias
• Local universities (reports, booklets, scientists)
• Local research institutes
• Booklets from CS
• Country websites about climate
• Online journals
• Online teachers’ resources
• Newspapers
• Conferences