With the sand on the sill collaborative IGEO project we achieve three things:
(1) We develop and provide a teaching tool that relies on resources that are available all over the world, namely a coloured sandgrain.
(2) Teachers enhance their students thinking skills by using it in their classroom.
(3) Teachers can use it as a tool to evaluate the geo-thinking skills of their students and one day might even be able compare the students level of “geo-thinking” of their class with the level of “geo-thinking abilities of other students all over the world.
Category Archives: Improve Earth Science Education through educational research
How do we want to improve geoscience education through research?
So far we have been founding two action groups in order to conduct cooperative IGEO research:
1. Sand on the Sill cooperative IGEO reserach (Coodinator: Prof. Dr. Chris King, Keele Univerity, GB)
2. Cooperative research on alternaive conceptions about plate tectonics (Coordinator: Dr. Domik Conrad, University Bayreuth, Germany).