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TITLE OF TEACHING RESOURCE

Madrid es Ciencia
(Madrid is Science)

IMAGE

NAME OF AUTHOR(S)

Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d

NAME OF PRODUCER

Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d

WEBSITE OF THE PRODUCT

http://www.madrimasd.org/cienciaysociedad/taller/presentacion.asp

TYPE OF PRODUCT

Web Site/Portal

LEVEL OF CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE

Medium

PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH

Cooperative learning, Experiential learning

SUBJECT AREA

Fundamental Chemistry, Life Chemistry, Food Science, Health Science, Environmental Chemistry

TARGET GROUP LEVEL

Lower Secondary School, Upper Secondary School

LANGUAGE/S OF TEACHING RESOURCES

Spanish

TUTORIAL SUPPORT

DESCRIPTION

Prerequisites:
The educational material available at this site is available freely and does not require any special program for viewing.

Contents:
Madridi+d is the website on science and technology produced by "fundation for knowledge madri+d" . The web shows us science news and activities with students in Mdrid Commnunity by teachers and science communicators.

You can find in this website a section named "science and society" that contains science learning experiences:
http://www.madrimasd.org/cienciaysociedad/madrid-es-ciencia/default.asp

In this link we can find information about "Madrid por la ciencia" (Madrid Science Fair). The Madrid Science Fair is one of the main activities of the Science and Society Program in Madrid with the aim of promoting a policy of science communication from experts to citizens but also seeks to increase citizen participation in scientific activities.. The website has a wiki open to the participation of all through forms that promote collaborative learning.

Aims:
- To bring science to citizenship
- To make students interested in chemistry.
- To have the student appreciate, learn and understand chemistry's basic concepts through experimentation.
- To spread scientific culture and research.

Use in classroom:
We can use the videos and practical experiences reports to participate and teach chemistry through experimentation and research activities. Also, our students can participate in the wiki adding new contents in the website.

COMMENTS

Points of strength:
- A high variety of experiences available in the web.
- A good organization of educational resources.
-A wiki open to cooperative learning.
-You can search with a Resource Finder videos, experiments and activities.

- Points of weakness:
We miss didactic guides for teachers in the website.

Scientific reliability
Good.

Pedagogic value:
"Madrid por la ciencia" is an example of the Rocard´s Report recomendation topromote the participation of cities and the local community in the renewal of science education
and the participation of non formal teaching in science spreading.

It also has a high pedagogic value for teachers and students and it´s perfect to design your own practical experiences and science fairs.

NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION

CECE

Comments about this Publication

Your comments are welcome

Date: 2013.11.10

Posted by Maria João Melo (Portugal)

Message: The homepage is attractive and designed for all publics. The expectations on what is offered by the site and its contents are somewhat not met, because very few interactive or exciting resources are available.
- Is the teaching resource described useful for you? No.
- Do you think it can increase the students’ interest toward chemistry? No.

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