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Concept Cartoons™
are used in several countries around the world. Here are some of the
main centres where they are used.
Tibet
India
Australia
Norway
Russia
Slovenia
South
Pacific
Sweden
Wales
Future
developments?
Tibet
Tibetan teachers working in an SOS Children’s Village in a refugee
settlement Southern India were introduced to Concept Cartoons™ during
a two-week science workshop. One of the aims of the workshops was to
encourage the teachers to work from children’s existing ideas
in science. Another aim was to show the teachers that children could
develop their own investigations, rather than working carefully through
experiments described in the textbooks.
Having explored
the ideas in a few of the Concept Cartoons™ in the workshops the teachers
were surprised how easily investigations could
be set up to test the ideas. By the end of the workshops the Head of
Science was using the cartoons in her science club.
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for a large version.
India
Science Education lecturers from Liverpool Hope University College used Concept Cartoons™ with local teachers and students on a study visit to India. The focus of their work was Environmental Studies, so they used Concept Cartoons™ such as Upside Down Seeds and Little Seeds, Big Seeds.
In the photograph students can be seen investigating seed germination in response to the Concept Cartoons™.
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Australia
Concept Cartoons™ are promoted through teachers' journals, conferences
and in-service work with teachers.
Concept Cartoons
In Science Education is available as a CD ROM and Thinking About
Science posters are published by the Science Teachers Association
of Queensland Many Australian teachers now use Concept Cartoons™ in their
classrooms.
You can see comments
that Australian student teachers have made about Concept Cartoons™ by
logging on to http://penny.educ.monash.edu.au:81/~public/login
and look for EDF4220 Teaching and Learning Science Education.
Norway
Concept Cartoons™ are used extensively in teacher education courses They
challenge the students' own ideas about science and provide a model
for teaching, learning and assessment in the classroom They are also
used for language support.
The publication Concept Cartoons in Science Education (Millgate House, 2000) is to be translated into Norwegian and made available to schools in Norway through the internet. Funding has been arranged through the Norwegian Centre for Science Education, University of Oslo.
Russia
Science in Russia was launched in September 1999. It used the same posters
which featured on the London Underground, translated into Russian. The
posters were displayed on public transport systems in Niznhy Novgorod
and Ekaterinburg.
Slovenia
Starting Points for Science (B. Keogh and S. Naylor, 1997) translated
into Slovenian for teachers It is available in Slovenia as Prvi Koraki
v Naravoslovje.
South Pacific
Concept Cartoon posters used in South Pacific countries for promoting
literacy through science. The posters provide a stimulus, a context
and a purpose for language use.
Sweden
Concept Cartoons™ used extensively in teacher education courses. They
challenge the students' own ideas about science and provide a model
for teaching, learning and assessment in the classroom Science in
Sweden was launched in September 1999. It used the same posters
which featured on the London Underground, translated into Swedish. The
posters were displayed on public transport systems in Stockholm, Uppsala,
and Gothenburg.
Wales
Pupil materials translated into Welsh with support from accac. Available
at no cost to teachers in Welsh medium schools. Teachers can use the
materials in either Welsh or English or both. The materials can also
be used for language support.
Future developments?
Possibly translation into Spanish for use in Latin America. Possibly
translation into a range of European languages for use across the European
Union. The ConCISE Project may be taken up in Australia and New Zealand.
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