The ‘Ocean School @BiodiversityGateway’ project is coordinated by CNR-ISMAR within the Biodiversity Gateway (https://www.biodiversitygateway.it/) promoted by the National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), the national centre committed to studying and preserving ecosystems and biodiversity.
With the Biodiversity Gateway, the ‘Ocean Schools’ programme intends to amplify the network of teachers and students in order to broaden the educational offerings for effective environmental education.
This project proposes an educational pathway taking place during the 2024/2025 school year in cooperation with Ocean Space and TBA21.
It is aimed at students between the ages of 3 and 19 and at teachers, through paths dedicated to each school grade: pre-school, primary school (second cycle) and first and second grade secondary school, which this year will explore an interdisciplinary path dedicated to the theme of biodiversity and the environmental variety present on our national territory.
The pathway throughout the year develops through thematic in-depth analysis, theoretical reflections and practical suggestions on the most pressing issues affecting our time: climate and environment, man and the blue planet, biodiversity. The project is aimed at the entire national school community.
The year-long path is developed through thematic insights, theoretical reflections and practical suggestions on the most pressing issues affecting our time: climate and environment, man and the blue planet, biodiversity. The project is aimed at the entire national school community.
The first part consists of training for teachers, coinciding with the start of the school year, with free training appointments in digital webinar mode and on demand aimed at teachers of all levels:
– 8 November 2024: Semi-nati. The beauty of biodiversity. Presentation of the Ocean Schools 2024/2025 programme as part of the Biodiversity Gateway, with the participation of CNR ISMAR Director Mario Sprovieri and the talk by Ferdinando Boero, zoologist and ecologist, President of the Dohrn Foundation in Naples.
– 6 December 2024: The invisible threads of nature. First educational meeting of Ocean Schools 2024/2025 within the Biodiversity Gateway, lecture by Gianumberto Accinellli, entomologist and populariser, on the invisible threads that bind biodiversity.
– 13 December 2024: Biodiversity: methodological approaches and measurements in the eLTER network of long-term ecological research sites. Lecture by Giorgio Matteucci, director of the Institute for BioEconomy of the National Research Council (CNR-IBE), on the eLTER-Italy network and methodological approaches to measuring biodiversity.
– 19 December 2024: Educational approaches and proposals for biodiversity. Lecture by Monica Guerra and Greta Persico from the Department of Human Sciences for Education ‘Riccardo Massa’ – University of Milan-Bicocca, part of the NBFC project, on metodologies of teaching biodiversity.
– 10 January 2024: Eco-signs: observing and reproducing the forms of biodiversity. Lecture by Ilaria Pittana, architect and designer, on observing biodiversity and pattern design.
– 17 January 2024: Biodiversity in the classroom. Learning to observe and discover the wonder around us. Last training meeting between teachers and the Biodiversity Gateway and TBA21 teams with the proposal of workshops to be done in the classroom.
After the first phase dedicated to teachers, the programme directly involves students with proposals for workshops to be carried out independently at school, in their classrooms, aimed at encouraging direct observation of biodiversity, also through collaboration with the eLTER network, collective reflection, critical thinking and inspiring conscious actions in favour of the environment.
The proposal is divided into several workshops divided by educational bracket:
– ‘Biodiversity.Natural textures”: aimed at pre-school teachers.
– ‘Biodiversity.Eco-signs”: aimed at Primary School teachers.
– ‘Biodiversity. Natural De-signs”: addressed to Lower Secondary School teachers.
– ‘Biodiversity. In the sign of diversity”: aimed at Secondary School teachers.
The results of these workshops will be collected in a final event presenting the results of the Ocean Schools for Biodiversity Gateway project.
For more information visit the dedicated page on the OceanSpace website.
