Malmö university Teaching Science through Environmental Education

Period spent to transform it to an e-environment  The transformation period was from the start of the project until July, 2008

Overview of the e-module  The module consists of seven sessions. The module is based on constructivism.  Sessions 1 start with Pupils concept on water and water pollution.  Next session deals with how teachers can work to create conceptual changes.  Session three focus on productive questions as tool to create new knowledge and how these questions can be used to start scientific enquiries.  Next session deals with attitudes as a part of the knowledge creation.  Session one to four is a platform for session five. This session is dealing with an authentic and complex problem concerning conflicts of interest in the use of natural resources.  In next session teachers will design their own teaching material buildt on experiences and theories from former sessions.

Organisation and workforms  The module teacher meets the participants on the web, through Moodle.  The module teacher guides the participants to explore certain methods in workshops.  Participants read and reflect on different texts and discuss tasks on discussion forums on Moodle.  Different working forms are used and evaluated. The participant will also develop a plan for a set of lessons based on a local conflict of interests. Participants will act as critical friends on each other’s plans and give comments and feedback  Each participant uses an individual portfolio

Assessment  Assessment of this module will be through the production of a plan for a set of lessons based on a local conflict of interests (that includes study visit, problem-solving, value clarification and role-play) and through critical and reflective comments on each others plans. The report should be equivalent to 2500 words.  Products from each session will also be assessed.

Implementation and future work  The module is tested by one student at Malmö University  Piloting. ?  The module needs to be updated. One reference to a E-book ( h /) needs to be changed and a few links doesn’t work properly. Its important that the module is piloted during spring The deadline for updating the module is Febrary the 1st h /