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Project No.

Pilot project in the winter term 2001/02

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Partner: Class 8 Velbert comprehensive school / Germany (age of the pupils: about 14 years)
Teacher: Roland Bergmann
Project description: In a 'choice of subject' course the item
The natural water cycle
will be treated during the winter term (5 months).
The climate relevant characteristics of water in the troposphere as in the stratosphere, the formation of clouds, the function of the oceans, the melting of glaciers and even the ice cores as witnesses of climate history will be explained.
Moreover pupils are invited to ask the scientists interactively questions, which cannot be directly answered by the teacher.
Media: The base of the series of lessons is a script which has been developed in the school and will be handed out in work sheets.
ESPERE is going to complement these sources exclusively by online material in the internet. Two pupils are equipped for this purpose with respectively one notebook.

Project No.

Project in 2003

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Partner: Lehrer-online

University of Duisburg - Institute for Didactics in Chemistry

ESPERE

Coordinators: Prof. M. Tausch (Didactics in Chemistry - Duisburg)
Dr. Diesel (Lehrer online)
E. Uherek (ESPERE)
Project Description:

The project "Ozone" aims to explain the current knowledge about the role of ozone in both tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry and to elucidate its meaning for problems as the ozone hole, photosmog and climate change.
The preparation of scientific contents for classes should be combined with the mediation of the basics in science teaching and the integration of the topic ozone in education.

Teaching material for lessons has been developed in the order of Lehrer-online and using already available ressources by the Institute for Didactics in Chemistry - Univ. of Duisburg. Media techniques are designed for the use in online-teaching. The project is scientifically accompanied by members and supporters of the ESPERE initiative, who provide topical texts about the current knowledge in the Internet. The contents are devided in the two sections 'stratospheric processes' and 'tropospheric processes'. They are developed in three levels for students of different grades.

Parts of the project "Ozone" are already realised in German. We try to make available a major part of the contents in English in 2003.

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