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GARDEN 2018– Manerba del Garda, 10/5/2018

Science communication in secondary schools through limnology

Marco PilottiGiulia Valerio

DICATAM, Università degli Studi di Brescia

SOME PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS

• Why science communication ?

• Why physical limnology ?

•Why Secondary Schools ?

•How to communicate

•When and who

•Increase scientific competence of youngsters.

•Foster citizen science






•When and who

•Explain the environmental relevance of lakes


•Area of Research and environmental relevance of lakes

•Create interest towards lakes through youngsters

•genius loci

•Scientific Completeness






•When and who





•genius loci


•Topics fit the Liceo Scientifico curricular program

•Alternanza Scuola Lavoro






•When and who





•genius loci




•Informal but scientifically sound

•Original Lectures +, Direct involvment through experiments

•Data manipulation through Spreadsheets and programming






•When and who





•genius loci




•Informal but scientifically sound

•Original Lectures +, Direct involvment through experiments

•Data manipulation through Spreadsheets and programming

•Liceo Scientifico Calini, Brescia;

•Liceo Scientifico Leonardo, Brescia;

•Liceo Antonietti Iseo

TOPICS COVERED BY THE 10 SEMINARS

TOPICS COVERED BY THE SEMINARS

A VISUAL TOUR OF SEMINAR 2: THE MASS BALANCE

Seminar 2

A VISUAL TOUR OF SEMINAR 3: THE RENEWAL TIME OF A LAKE

Seminar 3

Seminar 4

A VISUAL TOUR OF SEMINAR 4: SOME EFFECTS OF THERMAL STRATIFICATION

REPLICABILITY AND DATA AVAILABILITY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The activities partly presented in this presentation have been made possible also thanks to

a grant by Fondazione della Comunità Bresciana, that, in 2014-2015 funded our project

“Il lago, genius loci del territorio bresciano e occasione di introduzione al pensiero scientifico”

and by fondazione CARIPLO, through the dissemination part of the ISEO project.

Their help is kindly acknowledged

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

GARDEN 2018– Manerba del Garda, 10/5/2018

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