Enhancing teacher skills, strengthening their ability to motivate innovation and creativity is crucial. It is precisely the enrichment of the creative elements in Inquiry Based Science Education as an integral part of such a system, based on a wealth of existing European knowledge, which is the cornerstone of the CASE summer school.
The CASE summer school is the collective construct of case studies for creative science inquiry for primary schools, namely:
- Learning Science Through Theater: In this case teachers and students will be involved in the development of short or long performances that will have a scientific theme (physics, mathematics, environment etc.). In the specific case guidelines will be produced for the teachers to be used in training workshops but also to guide them in implementing this case within their classroom.
- Learning Science Through Puppetry: Every activity starts with a story, acted out by hand puppets to awaken children’s curiosity, motivating them to go on to discover and create using real materials from the world around them. The teachers and students should follow their story and develop relevant activities that could be enriched with relevant music/lyrics.
- Learning Science Through Digital Narratives & Storytelling:
- Slowmation: Through the activities of this case, pupils (with the guidance of their teachers) produce their own “slowmation films” about science, and may thus contribute to the teaching and learning of science and of the nature of science.
- Digital Storytelling: It will introduce students in a progressive exploration of the different technologies that can be accommodated from the provided system, from simple text and video uploading to advanced augmentations of students’ artifacts
Find out more about the summer school here: http://www.project-case.eu/summer-school/
The CASE summer school elaborates a methodology that regards teachers as agents of change. It aims to empower their profession with skills and competencies that will enable them to widen their teaching capabilities by incorporating creativity and art in science education.