Session: Science centre programmes in scientific

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• Session Science centre programmes in scientific
  
• education in partnership with schools and
  universities
• Title Towards an educational trajectory for
• inquiry-based learning and learning by design
• Date/time 1 June 2007, 14.45 hr
• Presenter Amito Haarhuis, science center NEMO,
• Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Science center Website Science
  Week Network of
• NEMO Kennislink
  Dutch science
• centers

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• science center NEMO
• NEMO was founded in 1997
• architect of the building Renzo Piano
• 5000 m2 exhibitions
• in 2006 350.000 visitors
• 30 school groups

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• Project for children aged 6-10 LOOL
• (Inquiry-based learning and learning by design)
• Subjects
• Floating and sinking
• Weather and weather instruments
• Growth and development
• Your own body

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• University partner
• AMSTEL Institute of the University of Amsterdam

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• Project LOOL
• Role university developing an educational
  trajectory / designing lesson materials
• Role science center advice on hands-on
  activities / the feel of the project
• Role schools reflecting on the objectives of the
  project and the design of the lesson materials /
  testing of the lesson materials

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• Educational trajectory for all our projects

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• Project for children aged 4-6
• Hands-on, Brains-on

• Subjects
• Airplanes
• Snails
• Growth of plants
• Building
• Floating sinking
• Magnets

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• Project Hands-on, Brains-on
• Role university delivery of good sources on
  science education for toddlers (exploratory play)
• Role science center advice for teachers on how
  they can adjust their activities in order to
  systematically work on inquiry-based learning and
  learning by design
• Role schools preparing and carrying out science
  activities / reflecting on the activities taking
  into account the educational trajectory

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• Project for children aged 11-12
• Science Center at School

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• Children build their own exhibits

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• 8 Half-days spread over a minimum of 5 weeks
• 1. Start in a science center
• 2. Choosing a subject making a building plan
• 3/4. Building the exhibit
• 5. Doing research
• 6. Preparing the poster presentation
• 7. Oral presentation
• 8. A science center at school!

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• Project Science Center at School
• Role university advice on how to implement
  inquiry-based learning and learning by design in
  the project
• Role science center project management /
  designing of lesson materials and website /
  training of teachers
• Role schools testing the project and the
  designed lesson materials / reflecting on the
  project and the lesson materials

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• Pupils gave an average score of 8.5 (on a scale
  of 0-10, n130)
• Most highly valued parts
• building of the exhibits (9.4)
• showing the exhibits to other children and
  parents (8.7)

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• Girls have become more technical!
• The number of girls that regarded themselves as
  pretty technical rose by 66.
• The number of girls who considered themselves
  not really technical fell by 35.

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• Training of 200 teachers in
• Science Center at School
• Some teacher training
• colleges have integrated
• elements of the project
• into their curriculum

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• For Science Center at School
• we were awarded by the
• Minister of Education
• with the
• NOT Innovation Prize
• 2007

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• Project website www.sciencecenteropschool.nl
• go to gt english

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• Training of 1000 students of teacher training
  colleges in inquiry-based learning

3 Levels of interaction with the exhibits
in science center NEMO 1. Passive contact 2.
Active manipulation 3. Investigative behaviour