Primary Education in Science through "Hands", ? the Experimentation

Sofia Straga, Despina Imvrioti, Mattheos Patrinopoulos, Kosmas Dendrinos, Ourania Gikopoulou, Sarantos Oikonomidis, Dimitrios Sotiropoulos, Nikolaos Voudoukis, Vasileios Grigoriou, Eleni Vithopoulou
Science, Technology, Environment Laboratory, Pedagogical Department P.E., Athens University
http://micro-kosmos.uoa.gr, kalkanis@primedu.uoa.gr

Aim of the Primary Education in Science through "Hands" ? the Experimentation workshop is to train (with hands activities) in-service teachers of primary education, who are currently teaching science, in the experimentation by integrating the experimentation in the scientific /educational methodology (triggering of interest, making hypotheses, experimentation, writing results / conclusions, generalization, microscopic explanations and applications). Apart from this experimentation some ?best practices? for the optimization of the educational proccess will be demonstrated during the workshop.