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UPJŠ, Kosice , January 2015. HANDS-ON SCIENCE ACTIVELY APROACHING SCIENCE EDUCATION Manuel F. M. Costa Universidade do Minho, Departamento de Física PORTUGAL. www.uminho.pt. UPJŠ, Kosice , January 2015.
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UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 HANDS-ON SCIENCE ACTIVELY APROACHING SCIENCE EDUCATION Manuel F. M. Costa Universidade do Minho,Departamento de Física PORTUGAL www.uminho.pt
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 Back in 2003 the Hands-on Science Network was established as an EU Socrates/Comenius 3 project. Our aim was to contribute to the generalization innovation and improvement of Science & Technology Education at basic vocational training and secondary schools by hands-on experimental investigative practice in the classroom ... bringing hands-on active learning of Science into the classroom and into the soul and spirit of the School ... www.uminho.pt
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 “We learn how to do by doing the things we are learning to do” (Aristotle) www.uminho.pt
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 The main goal of the Hands-on Science network is to promote hands-on investigative experiments based learning of Science improving Science Education and Scientific Literacy. www.uminho.pt Opening Minds, Discovering the Future
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 broad open understanding of the meaning and importance of Science open to all pedagogical approaches that may contribute to the effective implementation of a sound widespread Scientific Literacy and Science Education www.uminho.pt
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 Formal, informal and non-formal education from the kindergarten to adult and lifelong learning www.uminho.pt
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 Educating for Science and through Science www.uminho.pt
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 Leading the students to an active volunteer and committed participation in the teaching/learning process through hands-on investigative practice and experimentation, making intensive use of the new instruments and resources of the Information Society. Critical reasoning and Observation Method Responsibility Active commitment Self confidence www.uminho.pt
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 www.uminho.pt
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 REGULAR MEMBERS ASSOCIATED MEMBERS OBSERVERS www.uminho.pt
Workshops/Thematic conferences (“The Access of Women to Science” in Cologne, June2004, “The challenges of EU enlargement on Science Literacy and Development” in Malta January 2005, “Scientific Literacy and LifeLong Learning”, Bucharest, May 2006) Comenius Contact Seminars Training courses for school teacher (Experiments in the classroom, Hands-on Optics, School’ Robotics, Hands-on Science and Computer Simulations) Contest “IDEAS FOR SCIENCE FAIRS” Science Fairs Robotics Festivals Comenius Grundtvig FP7 and TEMPUS projects Lectures and demonstrations
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 www.uminho.pt
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 Eleven HSCI conferences • HSCI2004: http://www.hsci.info/hsci2004/ • HSCI2005: http://www.clab.edc.uoc.gr/2nd/ • HSCI2006: http://www.hsci.info/hsci2006/index.html • HSCI2007: http://www.hsci.info/hsci2007.html • HSCI2008: http://www.hsci.info/HSCI2008/hsci2008.html • HSCI2009: http://www.hsci.info/HSCI2009PROCEEDINGS.pdf • HSCI2010: http://www.clab.edc.uoc.gr/hsci2010/ • HSCI2011: http://colos.fri.uni-lj.si/mptl_hsci/ • HSCI2012: http://www.hsci2012.org • HSCI2013: http://www.hsci2013.info • HSCI2014: http://www.hsci2014.info www.uminho.pt
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 mfcosta@fisica.uminho.pt bvazquez@uvigo.es
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 FP7 projects: CLS andPriSciNet http://www.creative-little-scientists.eu/ http://www.prisci.net/
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 invitation HSCI’2015Hammamet, TunisiaSeptember 2-5, 2015www.hsci2015.info www.uminho.pt
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 InternationalAssociation HANDS-ON SCIENCE NETWORK www.hsci.info contact@hsci.info president@hsci.info
UPJŠ, Kosice, January 2015 Obrigado www.uminho.pt mfcosta@fisica.uminho.pt Manuel Filipe P. C. M. Costa, 2015