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 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...

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...

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...

Tablets and Smartphones in Science This is a classroom practice from Vecumnieku Secondary School, teacher Anda Kuzma. Teacher lets students use smartphones to search for pictures of plants, lichens, insects etc. because students are accustomed to do this every day. She uses tablets for practical work in biology (particularly outside ...

The Digital-Earth Network The digital-earth.eu multinational network aims at providing broad access to resources, promoting innovation and best practice in the implementation of geographic (geo-)media as a digital learning environment for school learning and teaching in several scientific fields (Earth science, Environmental...

Selected for piloting The EnvKids The project aims at students' understanding of the concept of environmental sustainability. It consists of educational activities that are designed as a series of simple steps that children can follow easily, of building critical thinking and developing understanding of the above mentioned concept. ...

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...