The International Space Station (ISS) Contest as STEM Educational Project

Autor/in	Bonacci, Enzo
Titel	The International Space Station (ISS) Contest as STEM Educational Project
Quelle	10 (2023) 3, S.153-180 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bonacci, Enzo)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Astronomy; STEM Education; Science Projects; Competition; Science Experiments; Secondary School Students; Space Sciences; Foreign Countries; Constructivism (Learning); Scientific Research; Student Research; Problem Based Learning; Outcomes of Education; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Astronomie; STEM; Science; Project; Wissenschaft; Projekt; Wettkampf; Sekundarschüler; Ausland; Studentenforschung; Problem-based learning; Problemorientiertes Lernen; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Italien
Abstract	In the years 2015-2018, the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research and the Italian Ministry of Defense proposed the joint initiative "Space for Your Future. The ISS: Innovatio, Scientia, Sapientia" in partnership with the Italian Space Agency. It was a competition addressed to secondary school students and aimed at developing innovative experiments to be conducted on the International Space Station, whose acronym (ISS) is the same of the Latin words "Innovatio, Scientia, Sapientia". Regardless of the odds of winning, "Space for Your Future" became a successful STEM educational project implemented in numerous schools. We illustrate how that Astronomy contest fostered a valid constructivist learning, a fruitful participatory science, and vast scientific research. We discuss, in particular, the activities of two teams of pupils from the Scientific High School "Giovanni Battista Grassi" in Latina (seat of the Planetarium "Livio Gratton") who participated within the thematic area No. 3 "Test the Sciences in Space". They all worked on chemical tests, suitable for the ISS microgravity, under the tutoring of Francesco Giuliano (Province Manager of the IYA 2009 and the IYC 2011 in Latina). The key reference is a talk given in the 104th annual congress of the Italian Physical Society at the University of Calabria (September 17-21, 2018) together with an invited lecture held in the 13th European Researchers' Night by Frascati Scienza (September 28, 2018). (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01