In the last decades the development of virtual tools for teaching science in school has increased really fast. In spite of the availability of on-line material, the largest part of the web production is in English and this discourages the regular use by Italian teachers. The project, of which this paper represents the first part, aims at making available to the teachers virtual lessons that are a “repository” for the most interesting and useful Earth science existing tools. The selected material will be adapted to the Italian school system, with the aim to provide an effective support to the teachers without a geological background. The purpose of this work is: 1) to evaluate Earth science teachers’ attitude towards the digital tools, 2) to understand the need of an updated web tool for science teachers in Italian, 3) to select the main themes it should contain, 4) to build it, 5) to test the material produced on in-service teachers. To determine how to proceed a questionnaire was sent to a selected sample of teachers. By the analysis of the data, the first themes to work on were selected and a pilot session has been developed, in order to test its effectiveness. Keywords Earth Science, web, teachers, updating
How to Improve the Earth Science Teaching at School Using the Web
LANCELLOTTI, LORENZO;INVERNIZZI, Maria Chiara;PARIS, Eleonora
2013-01-01
Abstract
In the last decades the development of virtual tools for teaching science in school has increased really fast. In spite of the availability of on-line material, the largest part of the web production is in English and this discourages the regular use by Italian teachers. The project, of which this paper represents the first part, aims at making available to the teachers virtual lessons that are a “repository” for the most interesting and useful Earth science existing tools. The selected material will be adapted to the Italian school system, with the aim to provide an effective support to the teachers without a geological background. The purpose of this work is: 1) to evaluate Earth science teachers’ attitude towards the digital tools, 2) to understand the need of an updated web tool for science teachers in Italian, 3) to select the main themes it should contain, 4) to build it, 5) to test the material produced on in-service teachers. To determine how to proceed a questionnaire was sent to a selected sample of teachers. By the analysis of the data, the first themes to work on were selected and a pilot session has been developed, in order to test its effectiveness. Keywords Earth Science, web, teachers, updatingI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
