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Target Groups

primary school students

Organizations

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)

Description

The project was developed as an interactive learning experience on hydrogeological risk and climate change and followed the dramatic experience of floods experienced by students in October 2011 that devastated wide territories of the famous Cinque Terre in the Liguria Region (Italy). Hands-on experiments, visits to laboratories, and interactive exhibits were part of to the project’s learning pathway. Peer education was strongly encouraged with students from middle schools acting as tutors of pupils from primary schools.

Scope

It is a scientific dissemination project of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) on environmental education designed for students of the last two grades of primary school and the first grade of middle school. It was selected as a continuity project for pupils going from primary to middle school for the educational year 2017/2018. The aim was to promote scientific culture in primary and middle schools, emphasizing the importance of Science in everyday life in order to favor the sustainable development of Society.
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