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L'Antàrtida, molt més que gel
L'Atzavara 13 (2005)
R. Estragués i J. Marlés. Sotazero,
un projecte educatiu en l'àmbit de les ciències naturals.
L'Atzavara, 13: 91-102
“Sotazero” (Belowzero) is a collaboration
project between the Institut de Ciències del Mar (CMIMA-CSIC)
and Frederic Mistral-Tècnic
Eulàlia (Fundació Collserola) School, within the ICM general
project “Welcome to the Antarctica”. The main purpose of
this project is to promote the scientific spirit of young people, from
five-year-old children to eighteen-year-old teenagers. The first idea
of “Sotazero” was to get our students to directly take part
in an oceanographic investigation project on Antarctica. In order to
achieve this, a group of ICM scientists on the oceonographic German ship,
Polarstern, (Antarctic campaign 2003-2004), were willing to periodically
comunicate, via satellite, with students from Nursery to Primary and
Secondary school levels. The objectives of this information exchange
were several:
- To answer questions and stimulate nursery school children about the
characteristics of ice, the organisation of the ship and features of
the most well-known animals of the Antarctic fauna.
- To answer questions and bring about deductive capacity from our Third
Primary Level students relative to the Polarstern route, building up
conjecture charts about the different kinds of birds during the ship
crossing.
- To carry out some experiments proposed by a group of High Level students
related to the bacterial population that live in the ice of the Antarctic
icefields, with the aim of establishing some paralellisms with the bacterial
colonies living in the iced lakes of the Pyrenees.
In order to conduct the project, participation was needed of a lot of
school teachers and the scientists’ direct contact with the students,
once the Polarstern campaign had been finished. A close cooperation between
a scientific institution, like ICM, and a primary-secondary school was
also needed. And, precisely this, two institutions with apparently such
distant goals working together, have definitively opened a new way on
science teaching and learning.
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