Selected for piloting Flora - Decision on the New Road The specific learning material is organized in three stages which include Scenario, Inquiry and Decision-making. Stage 1 - Scenario The village of Iliaktida is located in a beautiful valley between two mountains. Recently, a very important issue raised the concern of the people who live in the vil...

Selected for piloting Gigantic Seaweed Along the Coast of Cyprus Stage 1: Scenario "The past few months, seaweed has been observed in large amounts at a famous beach in Ayia Napa. In this particular region, the sea is starting to become green. The seaweed has multiplied so much that it now appears "gigantic". The seaweed appears sporadically in various areas fro...

Selected for piloting Hippodamus Hippodamus is a cluster of technological networks and the ones connecting people which both function together with the aim to perform effective learning. Technological networks refer to the equipment (instruments or sensors) and to the technologies (computer systems, Internet) that support the learn...

KALIF - Concept outdoor learning in the forest The KALIF-project (out-of school studying in the forest) may be described as a concept to teach students the goals of sustainable development by sustainable learning. Sustainable learning is reached by the way the project is woven into the school curriculum “spirally”: Students may attend KALIF- cou...

Selected for piloting Natural Gas_A Curse or a Blessing The specific learning material is organized in three stages which include Scenario, Inquiry and Decision-making. Stage 1: Scenario In the past few months, the Republic of Cyprus has begun a very important process: a search to discover and extract natural gas. As a result of this, a convention will...

Project “Ecology” Project „Ecology” is an interdisciplinary program of science education. In frame of this project, all activities were focused on three main elements (water, air, ground). The main goals of the project were: supporting interest in science education among students, creative integration of various disc...

Regional Research Projects: virtual field trips The main goal of this project was to elaborate a set of educational paths by teachers participating in GLOBE Program. For this purpose, workshops were carried out for teachers – special training module (training for regional coaches). Teachers using Google Earth tool got the task to mark out the edu...

Selected for piloting Researching the Ecological Pyramids_Who is the Unknown Organism X Consists of material regarding the ecological pyramids which is organized in 3 stages: scenario, inquiry, decision-making. Stage 1: Scenario It was approaching nightfall when the guard of the state library was doing his routine check on all the bookshelves before it was time for him to go home. Al...