Professional Development - Ciência Viva

The aim of the second day of the conference was to give an example of how inquirybasedscience education can be implemented in the classroom. Therefore, a handsonworkshop was held on the topic “floating and sinking” using materials which weredeveloped in the USA by the National Science Resources Center and which wereadapted for use by the Swedish Science and Technology for All Program. Theworkshop was taught by Prof. Holt in cooperation with Kerstin Reimstad and wastranslated into German by Dr. Skiebe-Corrette.One the second day, 33 participants attended this workshop including:- 24 teachers from 20 different primary schools- 6 researchers involved in science education from various institutions (ZNL in Ulm;Didaktik der Physik, FU; Max-Plank-Institut für Bildungsforschung; Primaryscience education, Humboldt Universität; Didaktik der Physik, HumboldtUniversität, Primary science education, FU)- 1 representative of a private foundation (Telekom Stiftung)- 2 representatives from informal school laboratories (NatLab - Freie UniversitätBerlin, Freilandlabor Kaniswall)An interview with Prof. Menzel relating to the conference was broadcast by a Berlinradio station (RBB Inforadio, “Wissenswerte”) prior to the conference. Following theconference, two newspaper articles were published (Tagesspiegel, October 4th;Neues Deutschland, September 30 th ).Due to the positive feedback from primary school directors and teachers, a secondworkshop sponsored by SciencEduc is being planned to further inform the schoolsinterested in being part of a pilot program.