Building the content on curiosity
Did you ever overhear the conversation in a bus, or any other public transportation unit that the people are talking about science? It does not necessarily have to be some specific scientific topic but...
SPOON (STEM education and Practices are not Only about the cONtent) Open Notebook Blog
Coronavirus: The barrier gestures. Why wash your hands?
We propose here an activity for elementary school students, extracted from the Fondation la main à la pâte resource kit https://www.fondation-lamap.org/fr/dossier-coronavirus. For la Fondation La main à la pâte, Elena Pasquinelli, Anne Bernard-Delorme, Mathieu Farina About...
The importance of measurement
Throughout the history of humankind communication was one of the foundations of our civilization. From the age of hunter gatherer tribes to the modern age exchange of goods and materials is the keystone of...
Can science teaching be used to enrich the awareness of our place in the universe
One of the stories beyond science are the stories of humanity and being humble about the place where we live. Science is offering an approach to learn, explore and understand the processes around us...
History counts
In order to explore the science beyond the content it can be important to explore how content was developed. One of the things usually not mentioned in educational frameworks are the processes behind science...
Analogies in teaching science
Some concepts in science are hard and just by explaining the content conceptual understanding can be difficult to achieve. One of the functional approaches is using metaphors and analogies in explaining these things. However...
Distant student research projects and the values of science
It was a big challenge to engage with your learners in an on-line environment caused by a pandemic. As it is important to share the content of scientific topics it is as well important...
First international pandemic paper frog jump competition
The Spoon project is just one out of countless ERASMUS+ projects which was struck by the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic. We have gathered together the team from France, Netherlands, Spain and Croatia to explore how science...
How do we “humans” gain new knowledge? Story about scientific inquiry and methods of science
A global pandemic struck and nobody saw it coming; except of course that big number of experts and scientists that nobody was listening to. The big irony is that we have been overwhelmed, and...
SPOON Publication : What’s inside the pink box? A nature of science activity for teachers and students
Freek Pols1 Published 23 April 2021 • © 2021 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing LtdPhysics Education, Volume 56, Number 4 Citation Freek Pols 2021 Phys. Educ. 56 045004 Abstract Although learning about Nature of Science (NOS) promotes a variety of important...
The health crisis, an experimental laboratory for new forms of education.
🥄 Why is it SPOON compatible? Because it opens horizons towards new pedagogical methods, and technological tools that can be used to save time and interactivity. Once upon a time, there was a world...
Fostering STEM education beyond content: Evaluation methodology for teachers training within the approach developed in SPOON
We are glad to annouce the publication of the report on the evaluation methodology for the SPOON’s educational approach. Below you will find a brief overview on the content, the public and the main...
WHAT ARE WE LEARNING FROM SPOON WORKSHOPS? Main insights from the evaluation.
By UOC team SPOON offers specific trainings throughout Europe to increase teachers’ capacity, their transversal skills and their ease in research-based STEM education by putting them in contact with science as practice and stimulating...
STEAM, girls and women
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STEM professions: universe of galaxies
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Steam education beyond school
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Steam education in schools
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