Alfried Krupp school laboratory
The Alfried Krupp school laboratory is a facility at the Ruhr University Bochum , which was set up in 2004 with the support of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation . The pupil laboratory is aimed at pupils in secondary schools (age group 5 to 13). 12,000 students visit the school laboratory every year. Most projects are offered free of charge.
Around 100 projects - in 2011 there were 46 - from the fields of natural and engineering sciences, mathematics and medicine as well as from the humanities and social sciences and sports science. All the sciences represented at the Ruhr University can now be experienced in the school laboratory.
The school laboratory is run by the Professional School of Education of the Ruhr University Bochum in cooperation with the 20 faculties of the Ruhr University Bochum. Scientists from the participating faculties and students from the tiered teacher training course in Bochum provide didactic support for the projects.
concept
The Alfried Krupp school laboratory works in three directions:
- Schoolchildren: In the schoolchildren's laboratory, schoolchildren work on questions that give them a concrete insight into different scientific disciplines and their methods. They experience and discover the world of science in experiments, through independent processing, personal experience and formal grasping.
- Teacher training students: The school laboratory, as an interface between school and university, represents a test field for teaching degree students. Ideas and new didactic concepts can be implemented and validated in the school laboratory. It is also used for teacher training through teacher training.
- Research: The school laboratory resource is used for theoretical, didactic-conceptual and empirical master's theses. It also serves as a crystallization nucleus for the research focus "Science communication in the school laboratory" of subject didactics and educational sciences at the Ruhr University in Bochum.
STEM area
The school laboratory began its work in the MINT area on February 26, 2004 after an 18-month construction period. A physics and technology laboratory, a biology and chemistry laboratory, a multifunctional laboratory and a seminar room are located on 1,000 m².
Projects
KEMIE
The project " K inthe e xperience m it i hear E lter chemistry" was teaching chemistry professor launched in 2007 under the direction of Katrin summer and is aimed at children between the 3rd and 6th grade and their parents. The project is characterized by three features: 1. the involvement of the parents, 2. the long-term nature and 3. the encounter with scientific ways of thinking and working on motivating phenomena and questions from the world of children and parents. The background to this concept is that elementary school children, regardless of their academic achievements, are highly motivated to deal with the natural sciences. At the same time, in the long term, children are primarily interested in what their parents are interested in. In order to maintain the positive attitude of the children and to overcome the often negative attitude of adults to chemistry, joint experimentation is particularly effective. Each round begins in October and includes 9 appointments that take place every month. The program ends on the ninth date in June of the following year. The project was awarded the Polytechnic Prize of the Polytechnic Society in 2016.
Humanities and social sciences
Six years after opening, the school laboratory was expanded in 2010 to include a humanities and social sciences area, making it the first school laboratory at a German university to offer such an offer. Another four years later, the new area of the school laboratory was given its own premises: three seminar rooms and an open access library were set up on 650 m² and opened on September 24, 2014.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ When is a project a "great project"? Development of an instrument for the assessment of student educational projects. In: Dietmar Höttecke: Scientific education as a contribution to shaping participatory democracy. LIT Verlag, Münster 2011, p. 546.
- ↑ Mario Büscher: Children discover science at the Ruhr University. WAZ plus , February 12, 2018.
- ↑ Kirsten Schmidt: Home. Retrieved October 8, 2017 .
- ^ Foldable poster Alfried Krupp school laboratory. Retrieved October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Jan-Martin Wiarda: University project with papa: And suddenly chemistry is fun . In: Spiegel Online . February 22, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 8, 2017]).
- ↑ Webmaster Chemistry: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/kemie/. Retrieved October 8, 2017 .
- ↑ SPTG - Polytechnik Prize. Retrieved October 8, 2017 .