- Docente: Ilaria Venturelli
- Credits: 1
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Primary Teacher Education (cod. 5711)
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from Nov 05, 2025 to Nov 05, 2025
Learning outcomes
At the end of the laboratory students: - know how to apply what they learned during the course in a simulated learning environment; - know how to reflect critically in groups on the proposed topics.
Course contents
In this laboratory students will explore the scientific method, the concept of measure and some of the main physical quantities through practical activities, interactive experiences, challenges and discovery pathways. The laboratory is structured to support a hands-on approach, encouraging critical thinking and design of educational activities to be brought in class in order to understand, experimenting with unity of measure and estimating activities, the importance of the concept of measurement and scientific reasoning that opens up to complexity and provides tools to understand reality and to imagine future scenarios.
The course main goals are to:
- provide tools to understand the scientific method not only as a sequence of steps ma as a dynamic and complex process based on observation, hypothesis formulation, experimentation and critical revision of results;
- highlight the importance of scientific education to train active and aware citizens and to encourage critical thinking starting from primary school;
- develop skills to design and lead scientific activities and laboratories in classrooms;
- promote the use of direct experience and experimentation as teaching tools to explore scientific phenomena;
- encourage an active approach to teaching science through experiments and problem solving.
Readings/Bibliography
Slides, texts and other material will be provided during the course.
Teaching methods
The activities, in small groups lead by the teacher, are alternated by moments of reflection and collective discussion. The activities have been thought to be replicate in class to boost critical thinking starting from primary school.
Assessment methods
The lab gives 1 CFU (8 hours of frequency + 17 hours of homework). In addition to active participation, students are expected to develop a “final product” which the teacher will evaluate with three possible outcomes: -1, 0, +1.
Teaching tools
During the lab experimental kits with all the equipment needed to lead the experiments and all the materials to guide reflection and discussion will be provided.
Office hours
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