Flow

Treball desenvolupat en el marc del programa "European Project Semester".Currently, innovation and science build the world around us, becoming a key part of education and progress towards a promising future. For this reason, we propose the immersion of ASO students from the 4th to 6th grade in an interactive socio-scientific environment, in which open-structure problems with multiple solutions are introduced with the purpose of assessing the students’ ability to find resolution methods according to the experiments as well as draw conclusions from them. First, a study was conducted identifying the main problems that cause students’ lack of enthusiasm for science, among which the lack of accessibility for experiments that provide the perfect balance of fun and scientific learning. As a result, a field investigation was conducted by interviews with teachers of physics and visits to communication centres of science and engineering, which led to the teaching of scientific and moral reasoning in real-world situations, taking into account the ethical-social problems related to science and, in particular, to renewable energy. With the results obtained and with the purpose of meeting the aforementioned objectives, the Flow team, which comprises industrial design engineers, product developers, and an environmental engineer, has developed a workshop that provides students and teachers with a series of experiments based on renewable energy, through which science and fun come together to transmit the values that the Flemish government wishes to fulfil. The purpose of this workshop, based on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education, is to experiment using alternative sources of energy, specifically solar, wind and hydraulic energy, as well as performing measurements and drawing graphs, as a result of which students will learn to investigate and solve problems by themselves. In conclusion, our aim is to bring innovation and scientific knowledge to the classroom, providing alternative methods of teaching and learning, at the same time that we adopt a collective social conscience through which students coherently reflect the training and the implications of their own reasoning.Outgoin