Session 10: Portals and resources II

10.4 I-CLEEN: Enhancing an inquiry-based approach to Earth system sciences in Italian classrooms
Maddalena Macario, Natural Science Museum of Trento, Italy

Abstract
I-CLEEN is a free instrument of cooperation for Italian teachers, aimed to support and enhance the practice of inquiry in education. The main goal of the Inquiring on CLimate & Energy project is to select and publish as OER any resource able to speed up the delicate and fundamental process of lesson preparation. The core of I-CLEEN is the database of resources (most of all OER), enriched by a teachers’ team composing the editorial staff, which fulfi ls criteria and rules previously established according to international standards.