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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This material reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein
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New approaches to applied chemistry in education,CITIES
Report of the Czech partner in the project CITIES
Hana Bohmova, Dana Piskova, Eva Stratilova, Eva Sulcova, Charles University, Faculty of Sciences, Prague, CZ
Report of the Czech partner of the project CITIES, that is a COMENIUS project (129193-CP-1-2006-1-DE– COMENIUS–C21) planned in 2006 and running from 01.10.2006 until 30.12.2009
International
Mentioned report is in Czech, the whole project is in English
In many European countries, there is an urgent need to interest more young people in studying chemistry. Key factors influencing their choice are their secondary school teachers. The COMENIUS project CITIES will produce four teacher training modules which will help teachers to make their chemistry lessons more appealing to students by placing the subject in the context of their daily lives. Besides basic information on European aspects of the chemical industry and chemistry teaching, CITIES will offer course material with “hands on” experiments and a homepage that presents people and products, linking everyday benefits, the making of products and their chemical background in an interactive way.
Thus, the CITIES partnership is developing this homepage for the use of teachers and their students.
CITIES provides three types of material:
• a fully fledged in-service teacher training course
• training material which can be used/adapted by teachers for use in their own schools
• background information, factual materials and links
This report presents some interesting experience from practical laboratory courses for the further education of researchers. The courses are mainly focused on chemistry experiments developed by German project partners and by Czech partners from FNS CU in Prague.
The project has very similar objectives as our project CIAAU.
https://www.natur.cuni.cz/chemie/educhem/aktuality/projekt-cities
http://cities.eu.org/
http://cities.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=53&lang=en
Anna Mittnerova
Department of Science and Research, ICT Prague
Member of CIAAU Research Team in ICT Prague