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Mission Earth - Understanding Weather and Climate
A learning book was developed for the "Mission Earth" project at the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne. Its goal is to better understand the difference between weather and climate. It contains tasks which allow the topic to be explored in the Swiss Museum of Transport and to be deepened using measuring instruments. Suggestions for experiments are offered for work in the classroom.
...more ->https://www.verkehrshaus.ch/lernen/schulen/mission-erde.html
-> Learning book (pdf, 3 MB) |
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Teaching climate change at school
A comprehensive collection of learning materials on the causes and consequences of climate change was produced in the context of the project Climate Change Education and Science Outreach (CCESO). The learning material was designed for all school levels. It is based on the results of climate change research and the findings of the psychology of learning.
...more ->https://www.education21.ch/de/themendossier/klima |
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Book publication September 2015
Geographie unterrichten lernen - Die Didaktik der Geographie
Eds.: Sibylle Reinfried & Hartwig Haubrich
The state-of-the-art textbook «Geographie unterrichten lernen» provides a comprehensive and current introduction into the fundamentals of geography education. It is an essential resource for the entire community in geography education, including university faculty, students, practitioners in the schools, and geography education professionals outside of universities.
-> Obtainable on order |
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Awards ceremony
of the Swiss Mountain Water Award
on August 31, 2010
given by Pankraz Freitag, member of the Swiss Council of State, to Prof.
Dr. Sibylle Reinfried (PHZ Lucerne)
and Dr. Simon Scherrer and Dr.
Peter Kienzler (Scherrer AG) by
the “Netzwerk Wasser im
Berggebiet” [“Mountain
Water Network”] for the
educational project „Freshwater
sources and alpine hydrology in
school education“.
...more -> www.mountain-water-net.ch
-> Press
Release (German
only, pdf, 18 KB)
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‘Schülervorstellungen
und geographisches Lernen. Aktuelle
Conceptual-Change-Forschung und
Stand der theoretischen Diskussion’
The book addresses
the issue of students’ alternative
conceptions and knowledge in geography
and geoscience education. It includes
the results of recent conceptual
change research in Switzerland
and Germany and displays the current
state of the discussion.
Obtainable on order
at www.logos-verlag.de |
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Interview on
Radio DRS1 about „How children
see and understand the world“,
September 10, 2009
Children dispose
of alternative conceptions about
the world and the natural environment
that differ greatly from a scientist’s
view of these issues. One concerns
the idea that global warming is
caused by a hole in the atmosphere,
i.e. the ozone hole. Teachers
who want their teaching to be
more effective need to know their
students’ conceptions prior
to instruction.
...more -> www.drs1.ch/www/de/drs1/sendungen/wissen-aktuell/2802.sh10097848.html
-> Podcast
(German only, mp3, 2.9 MB)
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Newspaper article
in the ‚Neue Zürcher
Zeitung am Sonntag’
„Of water veins, caves and
ice lumps“. October 10,
2008
The article describes
lay people’s alternative
conceptions concerning geosciences
concepts (groundwater, glaciers)
and explains why it is so difficult
but necessary to change people’s
understanding of these concepts.
-> NZZ-Article
(pdf, 411 KB)
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Signing of the
Lucerne Declaration on Geographical
Education for Sustainable Development
on July 31, 2007
in Lucerne by Prof.
Lex Chalmers (Chair of the IGU-CGE)
during the IGU-CGE Lucerne Symposium
‚Geographical Views On Education
For Sustainable Development
Symposium
Proceedings (pdf, 4.2
MB)
...more -> www.igu-cge.org/charters.htm |
