Science Club Activities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukta Kulkarni
Keyword(s):  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Learning Programs ◽  
Viii And Ix ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Science Club

<p>Mukta Kulkarni.</p><p>Saraswati Vishwa-Vidyalaya National School Gat Number169, Ganeshnagar,Talawade Rd , Pimpri-Chinchwad Pune, Maharashtra, India.411062</p><p>The science club I lead in the school includes various hands on activities for students of grade  VIII and IX where we do projects such as  model makings, art integration for global issues in the form of role play, poster making, thumb painting activities to sensitize the students to keep our planet safe for the living organisms . The issues we focused on were conservation of biodiversity, plastic pollution and its adverse effects on the water bodies. Along with this project we celebrated science week in the school to develop interest in science where we keep sessions like understanding of superstitions, magic with science, competitions such as debates, quizes, making colorful diagrams and field visits. We also ran the hub of learning programs where we shared our knowledge with other schools assembled under exchange programs. These activities helped students to understand the science concepts beyond the classroom. Learning by doing helped sthudents to understand the concepts very easily.</p><p> </p>

Plastic ingestion as an evolutionary trap: Toward a holistic understanding

Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 373 (6550) ◽  
pp. 56-60
Author(s):  
Robson G. Santos ◽  
Gabriel E. Machovsky-Capuska ◽  
Ryan Andrades
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Predominant Role ◽  
Acceptance Threshold ◽  
Evolutionary Trap ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Natural Foods

Human activities are changing our environment. Along with climate change and a widespread loss of biodiversity, plastic pollution now plays a predominant role in altering ecosystems globally. Here, we review the occurrence of plastic ingestion by wildlife through evolutionary and ecological lenses and address the fundamental question of why living organisms ingest plastic. We unify evolutionary, ecological, and cognitive approaches under the evolutionary trap theory and identify three main factors that may drive plastic ingestion: (i) the availability of plastics in the environment, (ii) an individual’s acceptance threshold, and (iii) the overlap of cues given by natural foods and plastics.

scholarly journals Cooperative Learning to Enhance Horticulture Skills and Raise Funds for Professional Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-457
Author(s):  
Brian J. Pearson ◽  
Kimberly Moore ◽  
James Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Learning Programs ◽  
Critical Skills

Increased global trade coupled with diversified employment opportunities have generated demand for college graduates to possess enhanced interpersonal and foreign communication skills and a well-developed understanding of foreign culture. Horticultural employment opportunities also require students to possess a mastery of horticultural theory with an established record of direct, hands-on experience. Despite these needs, financial limitations of students and academic departments coupled with a lack of available opportunities may restrict students from developing these critical skills. Through development of cooperative learning programs, students have an opportunity to master and refine their horticultural skills while simultaneously raising funds, which are allocated for professional development including an international learning program. This article provides a successful overview of a student-based cooperative learning program that enhances student learning opportunities.

scholarly journals Parklet: A New Urban Platform for Emergent Forms of Communication and Social Interaction in the Cities

2019 ◽  
pp. 571-578
Author(s):  
Mona Ghandi
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Structural Engineering ◽  
Adaptive Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Zoning Regulations ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Design Build ◽  
Construction Strategies

Social interaction is critical to the physical and intellectual well-being of a functioning democracy. The excessive influence of technology and lack of urban design and planning’s attention to pedestrian experience has caused our interactions to become more private, isolated, and mostly virtual. The following project presents the product of a design-build studio which uses adaptive/Kinetic systems to generate a creative solution to this social problem. Specifically, it will showcase the efforts of students working on a Parklet project, repurposing urban space to advance local business ethics and social justice issues. The Parklet replaces a parking space, fostering increases in social connections, public vibrancy, and support for local businesses. To move beyond schematic design, and offer students an experiment in real-world design issues, this studio provided a hands-on atmosphere for collaborative and consensus design experience, learning-by-doing, detailing challenges, and offsite construction strategies. It was structured to promote lessons in collaboration, construction detailing and process, and adaptive design, including working with city officials to meet code and zoning regulations. Since the project’s site is located in a neighboring city, students prefabricated the pieces in school and shipped and assembled them on site in one day. The studio sought to promote CAAD education, teaching design, and construction, but also innovation and entrepreneurship, through computational technology. The pedagogical framework was defined around various considerations such as structural, functional, financial, aesthetical, technological, and collaboration with other disciplines such as structural engineering and construction management

i9MASKS Project

2022 ◽  
pp. 271-289
Author(s):  
Violeta Meneses Carvalho ◽  
Cristina S. Rodrigues ◽  
Rui A. Lima ◽  
Graça Minas ◽  
Senhorinha F. C. F. Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Summer Program ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Virus Spreading ◽  
The Impact

Engineering education is a challenging topic that has been deeply explored in order to provide better educational experiences to engineering students, and the learning by doing approach has been appraised. Amidst a global pandemic, an engineering summer program denominated i9Masks emerged and aimed to create transparent facial masks for preventing the virus spreading. This project had the participation of 21 students from different engineering areas, as well as professors and monitors whose guidance and commitment were of great importance for its success. Aiming to understand the importance of this engineering hands-on project for students' training, two inquiries were applied, being one for students and the other for professors and monitors/researchers. Students described this initiative as an amazing and innovative experience that they would like to repeat and considered useful for their careers. Regarding the impact perceived by the teaching staff, the results proved that they enjoyed participating in the i9MASKS project and sharing knowledge with students in a practical way.

Pedagogical Creativity as a Means of Inclusion in Primary School

2022 ◽  
pp. 107-125
Author(s):  
Gaia Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Hands On Learning ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Learning As A Process

This chapter presents some creative pedagogical strategies used during the distance or remote learning period due to the COVID-19 pandemic from March to May 2020. The chapter explores the use of coding in a transdisciplinary way. Strategies for online tools and their specific use both in remote and in face-to-face learning are presented. The role of hands-on learning as a process of learning-by-doing and how to involve pupils using the methods of a flipped classroom are also presented. The chapter concludes with the importance of games to keep the class group united and cohesive in order to develop a healthy sense of competitiveness and collaboration among the pupils.

scholarly journals Elementary School Students’ Mental Models about Formation of Seasons: A Cross Sectional Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cumhur TURK ◽  
Huseyin KALKAN ◽  
Kasim KIROGLU ◽  
Nazan OCAK ISKELELI
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
Physical Scale ◽  
Hands On

<p>The purpose of this study is to determine the mental models of elementary school students on seasons and to analyze how these models change in terms of grade levels. The study was conducted with 294 students (5<sup>th</sup>, 6<sup>th</sup>, 7<sup>th</sup> and 8<sup>th</sup> graders) studying in an elementary school of Turkey’s Black Sea Region. Qualitative and quantitative data collection methods were used in the study. The students first were asked 3 open ended questions (one of them was a drawing) in order to determine their mental models on seasons. Following this, the students took an achievement test on seasons that consisted of 4 multiple questions. Quantitative data were analyzed by SPSS 20.0 while the qualitative data were analyzed by the researchers by using content analysis technique. The results of the study showed that the students construct the formation of seasons in various ways in their minds. However, differently from the literature, the presence of some new mental models was found. For a full understanding of the seasons, the necessity of a set of pre-learnings has been recommended. It will be useful to design basic activities based on hands-on and learning by doing which will enable the most effective learning and to put this in the textbooks in the most suitable way. Additionally tangible physical-scale hands-on models, 3D simulation modeling and planetarium environment should be used in students’ education about formation of seasons.</p>

scholarly journals Marine Plastic Pollution in Asia: All Hands on Deck!

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Garcia ◽  
Mandy Meng Fang ◽  
Jolene Lin
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Regulatory Measures ◽  
Multi Level

Abstract Marine plastics pollution (MPP) is an alarming problem affecting many countries, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, and generated mostly from land-based sources. Five Asian countries (i.e. China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Sri Lanka) have been identified as the largest sources of MPP globally. This article presents two cases studies focused on the two largest polluters: China and Indonesia. Both countries face similar challenges in dealing with plastic pollution. They have weak legal and institutional frameworks in place to deal with MPP. The two case studies also show that there have been more creative and effective measures taken at the domestic level by local governments and non-state actors, many of which involve partnerships among different stakeholders. This article argues that governance efforts to address MPP require an ‘all hands-on deck’ approach, involving multi-level and multi-actor strategies and targeted regulatory and non-regulatory measures. However, our findings also suggest that most efforts should be directed at the subnational level, from which the problem mainly originates. This article proposes a number of legal and policy recommendations, based on the lessons learned from the case studies, which can be instrumental in reducing the global MPP crisis.

Awaking Interest in Science Learning: Hands-On Photosynthesis Demonstrations Using Elodea canadensis and Spinacia oleracea

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 457-461
Author(s):  
M. Münkel-Jiménez ◽  
M. Bonilla-Araya ◽  
Ana D. Grey-Pérez ◽  
O. A. Herrera-Sancho
Keyword(s):  
Science Learning ◽  
Spinacia Oleracea ◽  
Elodea Canadensis ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
Hands On

Science and creativity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavia Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Reactions ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Scientific Terminology ◽  
Educational Standard ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Earth Structures ◽  
Lithospheric Plates ◽  
Living Organisms

&lt;p&gt;I teach Natural Sciences in a Liceo Artistico, a type of secondary school in Italy. It is designed to give students the skills to progress to any university, but specifically devoted to art related topics.&lt;br&gt;During my career I have been following the national educational standard of the Ministero dell&amp;#8217;Istruzione, dell&amp;#8217;Universit&amp;#224; e della Ricerca of my Country.&lt;br&gt;During the years students are involved in meaningful hands-on activities &amp;#160; such as the study of the rocks in the country, preparation of easy chemical reactions and observations through a microscope of vegetal and animal organisms. These last ones are very interesting in a Liceo Artistico where many topics focus on the study of the morphology.&lt;br&gt;The theory confirms what the students learn during the practical activities, furthermore it is important to acquire a correct scientific terminology as well as to be able to express scientific issues.&lt;br&gt;I teach during the year the following main topics:&lt;br&gt;Science of Earth: the Solar System, the two motions of the Earth, structures of the Earth surface (rivers, lakes, glaciers, oceans and seas), the Earth&amp;#8217;s Spheres, the movement of lithospheric plates.&lt;br&gt;Biology: the characteristics and functions of living organisms especially the cells and the biodiversity. The Evolution, Mendel&amp;#8217;s genetic laws, organism-environment relationship in order to valorize and to maintain the biodiversity. Chemistry: state of matter, classification of matter, the Mendeleev&amp;#8217;s Periodic Table, the main chemical reactions, atomics models, chemical bonds, chemical nomenclature.&lt;br&gt;The extra-curricular course proposal of my school (POFT-Piano dell&amp;#8217;Offerta Formativa Triennale) includes my project whose title is &amp;#8220;Science and creativity&amp;#8221;. The achievement is to create a link between scientific subjects and the art ones in order to approach knowledge which appear distant but have really many points to share.&lt;br&gt;Every year some classrooms study different topics such as the Nanoparticles, Biomimetic and this year the Adaptations of the animals.&lt;br&gt;After a scientific conference, plastic models and graphic drawings will be realised by the students, who starting from the scientific reality, can express their creativity.&lt;br&gt;During the years I organize some educational visits for example to the Botanic Garden as well as to the countryside; in this way the students have opportunities to create an e-book with texts and photographs.&lt;br&gt;For instance two years ago my classroom created an e-book with botanical cards and the following year another one with the title &amp;#8220;Rocce a Milano&amp;#8221; where students took pictures and texts about this topic.&lt;br&gt;Many classrooms and teachers are involved in this project for example Plastic and Drawing teachers, as well as Multimedia teachers. I manage to gather the interested teachers and to realize the projects.&lt;br&gt;With our productions we participate in competitions and we are sometimes selected.&lt;/p&gt;

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