Good practices
| Science Picnic is the largest open-air event aimed at popularizing science in Europe. For 17 years science institutes, universities, student organizations and cultural institutions has been presenting their latest research, sharing knowledge and enthusiasm among the event participants. It is a cycl... |
| Ingrida Brizga, a teacher from Cesis Primary School Nr. 2, projects PowerPoint presentations and interactive whiteboard materials using Active Inspire programme, including animation, videos for students during the physics and mathematics lessons. Similarly, students prepare PowerPoint presentations,... |
| Teacher's experience: Aija Bruna from Dzerve Primary School sometimes uses the “student/teacher” method. She splits up students in pairs in which one is a teacher and the other is a student. For example, she teaches co-ordinates this way. While “the teacher” names the coordinates of a place, “the s... |
| There are many projects that offer students the opportunity to actively participate in the improvement of place they live in. Students participate in field research and plan it in cooperation with their teacher, classmates, fellow citizens, local enterprises, etc. They work together on the project a... |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| With expansion of modern technologies also the number of schools that use tablets for teaching grows. „Despite all the demands and difficulties, we cannot imagine returning to the classic way of teaching with a blackboard. Education results clearly show that the influence of digital learning is posi... |
| The project aimed to give students more challenging and authentic learning experiences by creating a new experimental science laboratory and expanding the existing teaching resources. Main objectives of the COSMOS project were to develop a user-friendly online repository of both scientific and educa... |
