IDiverSE - Islands Diversity for Science Education

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Are islands really isolated or do they share unique features that connect them all? In IDiverSE students from different islands of the world collaborate in scientific projects to collect relevant common data from their communities and compare them to find answers for local and global problems.

Islands Diversity for Science education is a project that brings the Design Thinking methodology to schools in islands, promoting an Inquiry and Interdisciplinary approach in the classroom. While implementing the different IDiverSE projects, students contact, communicate and collaborate with their local community, as well as with students from other parts of the world to discover relevant solutions to local and global problems.

After learning about a problem, inventing solutions and creating a relevant final product to promote such solutions, students finally share their work with their school and surrounding community. Throughout their work, students develop key 21st-century skills, such as critical thinking, creativity, communication, problem-solving and collaboration and see their work recognised and used by the community. Learning becomes relevant and contextualised and students' work is made relevant and applicable, and actually makes a difference in their lives and the lives of those around them.

 

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