Team biology
Biology in a Team ( BIT ; Biology by team ) is the first and so far only Austrian biology competition for AHS (general education higher schools).
BIT was submitted for the German Innovation Prize for Sustainable Education and was among the 13 projects nominated as “best of”. In 2008, BIT made it possible for Austria to take part in the European Science Olympiad for the first time .
concept
High school students who are particularly interested in biology can deepen their specialist knowledge and expand their methodological skills within the framework of the competition. As part of a non-binding exercise , modules are used to work on key topics that are selected annually by a team of teachers. Particular emphasis is placed on practical work and, since the 2004/05 school year, on teamwork . In April there is a two-day final competition in which groups of six, each with one student from the participating schools, have to solve various tasks. A jury made up of people from science and business as well as the supervisory teachers assess the results and their presentation.
The concept was developed by a team of teachers in cooperation with the AHS department of the Pedagogical Institute in Carinthia .
Mottos
The motto of the first competition in the 2002/03 school year was: All hell has broken loose in the ground . Other topics were beautiful, but dangerous, www - world wide water 1 and 2 , expedition forest , relationship boxes , mole perspectives , biological time travel , biology at the university , Ecce Homo , biodiversity , canned death , sex sells , trace (s) los - Without a trace , biologists lakes sea , Quo vadis? - Nit durthin, wo`s is bland , border Genial - Biology limitless? . The theme of the 2019/20 school year is diversity instead of simplicity.
Participating schools
So far, the following schools have been involved:
- ingeborg-Bachmann-Gymnasium, Klagenfurt
- BG / BRG Mössingerstraße, Klagenfurt
- BRG Viktring, Klagenfurt
- BORG Wolfsberg
- Stiftsgymnasium St. Paul im Lavanttal
- BG / BRG St. Martinerstraße, Villach
- BG / BRG Peraustraße, Villach
- Europagymnasium Klagenfurt
- Austrian grammar school in Prague
See also
Web links
- Official website
- BIT project page of the Natural Science Association for Carinthia
- Competition page on the Austrian school portal ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Specialized didactic center for natural sciences at the Carinthian University of Education
- BIT - concept in English
- Open Laboratory Graz
- BIT - concept in English
- IMST (Innovations Make Schools Top) Reference to BIT
- IMST interviews and statements on BIT 2007 (PDF file; 2.88 MB)
- Series "Pedagogy and Subject Didactics for Teachers", 2004 ( MS Word ; 2.0 MB)