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...

Studying the Food Relations The specific learning material is organized in three stages which include Scenario, Inquiry and Decision-making. Stage 1: Scenario Article taken from the Newspaper "Eyes on the world" The eradication of the Muflon population could cause major consequences for the entire ecosystem. Since 1994, th...

The Gisas Introduction of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to the teaching of geography and environmental sciences in European schools. The partners developed an integrated Web-based learning environment to collect, visualise, manage and share local GIS data on water and river basins. The materials deve...

Selected for piloting The Nature Calendar With the nature calendar scholars investigate how nature reacts to climate change. Natural processes, such as flowering, falling of leaves, start of bird migration, take place every year around the same period. This so called “nature calendar” of species is strongly influenced by temperature, precip...

The YSE project YSE promotes innovative teaching and learning about sustainable development and energy consumption (including renewable energy) through problem-based learning in various scientific fields (Ecology, Energy, Environmental sciences, Information technology, Technology) The project outputs include a new ...