"This Smells of Science", Discovering the Scientific Method by the Way of the Essential Oils and Aromatic Plants in the Classroom

Calderón-Guerrero, Carlos; Dronda, Almudena; Merino, Olatz

doi:10.21125/iceri.2019.1419

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“…The work proposal in the classroom was cooperative work. Learning is not a matter that takes place in isolation and individually, but is easier and more stimulating, if it is done in a team [14]. Cooperative work in the classroom consisted of a cooperative work to achieve common goals.…”

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Pilot Experience to Increase the Environmental Awareness of Young Students (12-18 Years) Through Innovating Formation by Upm Researchers in the Classroom

Calderón-Guerrero¹,

Núñez²,

Merino³

et al. 2021

INTED2021 Proceedings

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The Dive & Breath project is part of the Madrid Deep Demonstration (DD) portfolio and it is supported by the Spanish Climate KIC Education Office (CK). The project promotes the participatory innovation of teenagers and incorporates experiential learning to guide them to the collective design and implementation of a network of the environmental quality sensors of their neighbourhood (air and water monitoring). The process is carried out by professors and is applied to pilot groups of students, and later, the students, based on their experience and learning, teach other students. This way, the replication phase of the innovative methodologies in the educational field is introduced. The interdisciplinary approach merges through games, observation, and data collection. The project has used ICTs tools, due to COVID circumstances. The practical learning has been developed through DIY (construction of sensors) and citizen science. The proposal incorporates innovative learning methodologies such as experiential learning, based on a collective construction of knowledge that brings together all the agents involved. This approach transcends the usual proposals in the educational field. In this case, from the design phase, diverse visions come together to build a conceptual framework on which practical knowledge is built through experience.Further on, Service-learning for UPM students, in the context of secondary education, boots enormous potential for university students to interact with teenagers, performing a service of solidarity while learning and developing technical, transversal, social and ethical skills that will be of great value in their professional and personal development. Among the advantages of this approach, it highlights and increases their motivation and social awareness.The project is a fully scalable proposal with remarkable impact in the target area of Madrid City (Southern Districts). It is developed in critical districts and supported by key stakeholders for further expansion. Such as, the neighbour's platform "Nave Boetticher" (NB) that ensures the involvement of education leaders from 2 secondary education centres in the neighbourhood (Montserrat & Comunidad infantil). The UPM group of university professor and researchers would train young students promoting the construction and monitoring of sensors for air & water quality. D&B data will work in synergy with Spanish Climate KIC Education Office, and MonteMadrid foundation, to promote the spread of Young Innovators experiment in other target areas in Spain. Climate-KIC has played the role as an orchestrator of networks to facilitate and shared investment of deeper system change and on a larger scale and offering guidance and support due to their knowledge and experience. Climate-KIC has offered interesting innovative tools to be applied to our project and could facilitate connections with other Spanish colleagues who are working in a similar path as us. We totally agree in the fact that to achieve real system change, we all need to work together to ...

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Section: Transversal Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This way, the result of what has been achieved is a collective process. Learning as a team, experiencing teamwork relationships are conceived as a part of the learning process that we try to develop in this program and that we have implemented in other Young students' actions at schools [14].…”

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Pilot Experience to Increase the Environmental Awareness of Young Students (12-18 Years) Through Innovating Formation by Upm Researchers in the Classroom

Calderón-Guerrero¹,

Núñez²,

Merino³

et al. 2021

INTED2021 Proceedings

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Assessment of botanical learning through an educational intervention based on aromatic plants and their uses in the immediate environment

Gutiérrez-García,

Blanco-Salas,

Sánchez-Martín

et al. 2024

Environ Dev Sustain

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In order to achieve meaningful learning and in view of the need for education for sustainable development (ESD), pedagogical proposals based on experiential methodologies, paying attention to what is taught and with what objective, are essential. Sustainability in education implies a new vision of the term integral sustainability (IS); this should not only focus on environmental aspects of sustainability, but make the whole process of learning sustainable in itself. Against this background, this article presents a non-formal educational intervention for secondary school biology and geology students focused on aromatic plants and associated traditional knowledge (which are locally relevant to the students), in support of the botany-related contents established in the formal curriculum. To evaluate the activity, pre-test and post-test questionnaires were completed by the students. The results revealed significant improvements in students’ ratings of motivation, scientific learning, and sustainable awareness, demonstrating the effectiveness of implementing pedagogical proposals related to the immediate environment for increasing interest in learning and conservation of natural resources.

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"This Smells of Science", Discovering the Scientific Method by the Way of the Essential Oils and Aromatic Plants in the Classroom

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Pilot Experience to Increase the Environmental Awareness of Young Students (12-18 Years) Through Innovating Formation by Upm Researchers in the Classroom

Pilot Experience to Increase the Environmental Awareness of Young Students (12-18 Years) Through Innovating Formation by Upm Researchers in the Classroom

Assessment of botanical learning through an educational intervention based on aromatic plants and their uses in the immediate environment

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