Scientific Breakthroughs into the Classrooms

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Scientific Breakthroughs into the Classrooms is a book series on scientific breakthroughs and how to translate them into teaching materials.

The science hub Radboud University Nijmegen aims to encourage the scientific attitude of young children (ages 9-13) and to train (pre-service) teachers on how they can stimulate the scientific process skills of their pupils and influence their attitude towards science in a positive way. Each year the science hub honours three researchers with the Radboud Science Awards, a prize for the best societally relevant scientific research at Radboud University. In interdisciplinary teams, scientists, (pre-service) teachers, and members of the science education hub collaborate to make the topics accessible to primary-school children and to translate the topics into meaningful research activities.

The pedagogical approach of inquiry-based learning guides the translation of the research topics into the classrooms. With their own questions as starting points, children learn to design and conduct their own experiments. After the project, each project team writes a chapter for the upcoming book.

Scientist write about their scientific breakthrough and pre- and in-service teachers give descriptions of the activities they conducted with the children in the classrooms, together with suggestions on how these activities can be best performed. The book includes pictures of the activities and description of the discussions conducted in the classrooms. For each step in the inquiry-based learning cycle (commonly 7 steps in the Netherlands), a video clip is available showing research activities, interviews with teachers, and children’s testimonies on their own experiments and experiences.

 

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