Choosing the Right CBSE School A Comprehensive Guide for Parents
Sparkling IBSE: Hummingbird seeks Bromeliad, Sonja Eilers and Yvonne Matzick
1. Inquiry based teacher training for a sustainable future
Supported by
Sparkling IBSE:
Hummingbird seeks Bromeliad
Sonja Eilers, Yvonne Matzick, Kevin Henning,
Doris Elster
Institute of Biology Education
Bremen, Germany
2. Inquiry based teacher training for a sustainable future
Programme
• The European project INQUIRE
• INQUIRE for Students Course Bremen
• Sparkling IBSE activities
– Expedition to Mount Kinabalu (Yvonne Matzick, Kevin
Henning)
– Hummingbird seeks Bromeliad (Sonja Eilers)
– Which apple variety shall we choose? (Doris Elster)
• Discussion
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
2
3. Inquiry based teacher training for a sustainable future
The European project INQUIRE
• 17 Partners from 11
Countries coordinated
by University of
Innsbruck, Austria
• Promotion of inquiry
based science
education (IBSE)
through teacher
training courses
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
3
4. INQUIRE for STUDENTS Course
Flat hierarchical structure in a Community
of Learners
Authentic learning environments
Inquiry based science education (IBSE)
Hands-on activities, minds-on –
activities with green plants in focus
Reflective Practitioner
– Planning, conducting and reflecting of
– Working with pupils/classes of the lower
secondary level
o Thematic focus
– Biodiversity, biodiversity loss and climate
change
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
4
5. INQUIRE for STUDENTS Course at Bremen
:
o Thematic focus
– Biodiversity, biodiversity loss
and climate change
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
5
6. Inquiry based teacher training for a sustainable future
Programme
• The European project INQUIRE
• INQUIRE for Students Course Bremen
• Sparkling IBSE activities
– Expedition to Mount Kinabalu (Yvonne Matzick,
Kevin Henning)
– Hummingbird seeks Bromeliad (Sonja Eilers)
– Which apple variety shall we choose? (Doris
Elster)
• Discussion
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
6
7. Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
IBSE Activity:
Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
7
8. Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
Mount Kinabalu
• Located on Borneo in
southeast Malaysia
• Highest peak in the malay
archipelago (4095 m)
• Incredible biodiversity of
plant life with 5000-6000
different species
– For example orchids, pitcher
plants and rhododendron
• World Heritage side
•EnMdaanpg eorfe Bd osprneceieos
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
8
9. Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
Deforestation on Borneo
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
9
10. Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
IBSE Activity
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
10
• Structured in a station based system
Each station representates a different habitat along the hillside
• The pupils
form expedition teams
„climb“ the hill
get to know and practice scientific methods (Constructing and
validating hypothesises, microscoping, examine and describe
plants)
11. Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
Stations
Summit
Station 4
Station 3
Station 2
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
11
Station 1
12. Station 1 - Lowland equatorial evergreen rain forests
Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
12
Staghorn fern
13. Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning University
Bremen
13
Station 2 – Lower montane rainforests
Orchids
„Insect seeks flower“ and
„Hummingbird seeks
bromeliad“
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
13
14. Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning University
Bremen
14
Station 3 – Upper montane rainforests
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
14
15. Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning University
Bremen
15
Station 4 – Subalpine & alpine zone
Rhododendron
and azalea
Frost
desiccation
Stomata
Summit rat
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
15
16. Inquiry based teacher training for a sustainable future
Programme
• The European project INQUIRE
• INQUIRE for Students Course Bremen
• Sparking IBSE activities
– Expedition to Mount Kinabalu (Yvonne Matzick)
– Hummingbird seeks Bromeliad (Sonja Eilers)
– Which apple variety shall we choose? (Doris
Elster)
• Discussion
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
16
17. HUMMINGBIRD SEEKS BROMELIAD
Overview
• Students will intensively
deal with “flowers and their
pollinators”.
• They establish hypothesis,
design and conduct own
model experiments and
analyze them.
• Students draw conclusions
on the basis of their model
experiments.
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
17
18. Goals
Students…
• learn about settlement into the
ecological niche as correlation of
beak length and corolla tube
length
• find out that transport of pollen
and pollination of flowers is
unintended
• find out how flower constancy
works
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
18
19. T
Tillandsia fasciculata
Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala,
Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico,
Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Florida, Venezuela
Scientix Conference 2014 Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
19
20. Aechmea fasciata
Brazil
Scientix Conference 2014 Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning 20
University Bremen
21. Aechmea nudicaulis
Costa Rica
Scientix Conference 2014 Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning 21
University Bremen
23. Inquiry based teacher training for a sustainable future
Programme
• The European project INQUIRE
• INQUIRE for Students Course Bremen
• Sparking IBSE activities
– Expedition to Mount Kinabalu (Yvonne Matzick)
– Kolibri seeks Bromelia (Sonja Eilers)
– Which apple variety shall we choose? (Doris
Elster)
• Discussion
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
23
24. Doris Elster
WHICH APPLE VARIETY TO
CHOOSE?
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
24
25. Which apple variety to choose?
• A school class wants to
buy apples for their
school trip.
• Which apple variety
should they buy?
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
25
26. Which apple variety to choose?
Material 1
You want to buy one kilo apples at a supermarket. Among the choices are four different apple
varieties. Next to the apple baskets you find some information on each variety that may help
you in your decision making.
Apple variety
Criteria Granny Smith Red Delicious Boskoop Elstar
Taste
Growing conventional
Price [kg] [fill in price] [fill in price] [fill in price] [fill in price]
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
26
27. The following table is a scheme, which may help you deciding on which apple variety to choose!
Which apple variety to choose?
Criteria Direction Weighting
(1-3)
Granny Smith Red Delicious Boskoop Elstar
Points Score Points Score Points Score Points Scor
e
Taste Individual
direction
Growing Ecological
better than
conventional
Price The
cheaper, the
better
--------------- ----------------- Total --------- --------- --------- ---------
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
27
28. Inquiry based teacher training for a sustainable future
Thanks for your attention!
The INQUIRE team and course participants at the University of Bremen
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
28
29. Where you can get further information
• The INQUIRE Website is
translated into 10
languages.
www.inquirybotany.org
• Here you will find IBSE
activities, news and
discussions and the
INQUIRE Course Manual.
• About the German INQUIRE
activities: Doris.elster@uni-bremen.
de
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
29
30. References
INQUIRE (Inquiry based Teacher Training for a sustainable future).
http://www.inquiebotany.org/en [download November 10th, 2012]
INQUIRE Consortium (2011). Pilot INQUIRE Course Manual for Teachers and Educators, University
Bremen, Germany.
IBSE Activities (on CD Rom)
Elster, D., Eilers, S., Logemann, S. (2013). Hummingbird seeks Bromelid. Modulbook of INQUIRE
team Uni Bremen.
Matzick, Y., Henning, K. (2013). Expedition to Mount Kinabalu. INQUIRE Modulbook of Uni
Bremen.
Elster, D. (2011). Which Apple Variety to Choose? INQUIRE Modulbook of Uni Bremen.
Möller, J., Ritter, U., Elster, D. (2012) Landscape Architecture.
Scientix Conference 2014
Elster, Eilers, Matzick, Henning
University Bremen
30
Notas del editor
The EU FP7 INQUIRE Project (Inquiry based teacher training for a sustainable future) is a three year lasting project focusing on inquiry-based science education (IBSE). 17 partners coming from 11 countries are involved in this project. They work together in the development of 60 hour IBSE teacher training courses with support from Botanic Gardens International and the King’s College London. The project is coordinated by the Innsbruck University of Austria [1].
Most of the participating institutes are botanic gardens, science centre or natural history museum. Educators of these out-of-school learning environments and teachers work together in “Communities of Practice” [5] and develop INQUIRE courses focusing on biodiversity loss, climate change and sustainability, one of the major global issues of the 21st Century.
1.2 Professional development within a Community of Learners
Teachers’ professional learning starts with their pre-service teacher training and should continue through their whole working life. This lifelong learning enables teachers to act as experts in the profession of teaching in a world where scientific knowledge is permanently changing. According to Shulman [8] teachers’ knowledge is characterized by subject knowledge (knowing about subject content), pedagogical content knowledge (knowing how to teach the content) and pedagogical knowledge (knowing how to teach more generally).
In the INQUIRE Project, teachers and botanic garden educators work together in Communities of Learners [5]. The term stems from theories of situated learning which describe the collaboration of teachers with each other and with researchers [9], [10]. The main goals of CoL are to improve learning and teaching skills, to share responsibility for professional growth, and to partake in professionally guided discourse about one’s own teaching and learning.
In the INQUIRE project, the national CoL work together in the development of INQUIRE teacher training courses. In processes of co-construction [11] botanic garden educators and teachers develop inquiry-based activities and modules. This requires agreement on the working process, shared goals (of botanic garden educators and teachers), as well as a critical rethinking of one’s own practice.
In addition teachers’ professional development depends on the teachers’ culture of reflection [12]. Action research is expected to support teachers in establishing a research relationship to their own practice (acting in the classroom) and to empower them to act as ‘reflective practitioners’ [13].
2. INQUIRE for Students – Course in Bremen
The Bremen INQUIRE course is addressed to teacher students and active teachers who are interested in inquiry based learning dealing with the topics biodiversity, biodiversity loss and climate change. The course is performed at the green houses and laboratories of the University Bremen. Visits at the Green Science Center botanika Bremen and the Climate House in Bremerhaven are an essential part of the course which consists of three modules: investigation biodiversity and climate change, planning a school project and conducting the school project.
Module 1. Teacher students, teachers, botanic garden educators, science educators and botanists build a “Community of Learners”. They share their knowledge to deal with topics of biodiversity loss and climate change. They investigate different methods of inquiry based learning at authentic learning facilities outside the classroom, in the green houses and in the botanic garden as well as in the science center Climate House.
Module 2. The participants build school teams consisting of one and three to four students. In cooperation with botanic garden educator and science educator they develop 6 hours lasting school projects. In union they develop BSE activities and materials for 5-8 graders and reflect them with other participants using a self developed check list for IBSE tools.
Module 3. The teams invite their school classes and conduct the IBSE project at the biological garden (glass houses) and the labs of the Department of Biology Education at the University Bremen. The teams reflect on the students learning
One of the worlds most important biological sites
The deforestation is contributing to the global climate change
influences butterfly and other insect species on Mount Kinabalu
The primary forests are one of the world´s most important carbon sinks
Extensive deforestation around Mount Kinabalu in the past sixty years
Ändern
The students
Examine a staghorn fern and create a plant profile
Discuss the two different leaves of the staghorn fern as an adaption to the habitat of the plant
Get information about the deforestation and endangerment of Borneos rainforests
Discuss the Borneo pygmy elephant as an endangered species and think about the reasons
Construct a hypothesis in what way the height of the Borneo pygmy elephant is an adaption to its habitat
The students
Examine an orchid and create a plant profile
Do the activity „insect seeks flower-adaptions to special feeding habits“
Explore the adaptions of the mouthparts of different insect species on feeding on orchid species having a spur
Watch a film about the preservation of the orang-utan
Discuss in what way fighting deforestation can help to reserve the orang-utan and the global climate
The students
Examine a pitcher plant and create a plant profile
Dissect a trumpet and a pitcher of a pitcher plant and a trumpet pitcher plant to find out how the plants catch and digest animals
Discuss in which way feeding on insects is a plant´s adaption to its nutrient-poor habitat
Get to know the special relationship between the mountain treeshrew and the giant pitcher plant
Construct a hypothesis about the advantages the pitcher plant has from being used as a toilet
The students
Examine an azalea and create a plant profile
Get information about frost desiccation and stomata
Examine and describe the coiled leaves of a frozen rhododendron
Microscope the bottom side of an azalea leaf and draw a stomata
Construct a hypothesis about the phenomenon that the azalea coils its leaves up, using their knowledge about the function of the stomata
Get to know the summit rat as an endemic species of Mount Kinabalu
A Unique Resource Mutualism between the Giant Bornean Pitcher Plant, Nepenthes rajah, and Members of a Small Mammal Community