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Week 5 (4-8 June) 2012

Discuss with expert Jeppe Hust from House of Natural Sciences, Denmark

How do we “translate” real science problems to school science problems?
What type of problems/challenges can students work with?
How can these challenges be delivered from the industry to the pupils?
And how do companies and teachers cooperate about this challenge?

Discuss these questions with project manager Jeppe Hust from the House of Natural Sciences, Denmark. Jeppe has lots of experience with school-company cooperation and facilitation of processes where teachers and engineers are working together about science subjects on different levels. Currently he is head of a major project where five Danish industries and at least eighteen schools are developing courses together (about how to make and use products like cheese, thermostats, gelling agents etc.). In these courses pupils from primary school to high school level are working with authentic cases and real science and technology problems.
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 This week the participants discussed how to translate ’real’ science problems into school science problems, and which types of challenges are best suited for students. The participants agreed that it is important to let pupils know that they work with real problems, and not just problems that are made up for them. But this also depends on the field, e.g. pure math problems are hard for students to solve, but physics allows students to work directly with the real problems of this field. Biology is also very applicable for tests and experiments that give the students an understanding of real science problems. Also, teachers can choose a subject that is highly relevant to science today – e.g. sustainable energy resources. To inspire the students the teacher can for example invite a disabled person out to talk about his or her problems in real life. Several participants have had good experiences doing this, and saw that it created a passion for helping others within the class.