Student-directed learning:MicroGlobalScope in the classroom

Your Name and Title:

Dejan Boskovic, Mc.S.Biology teacher

School, Library, or Organization Name:

Primary school 'Ivo Andric', Belgrade, Serbia

Co-Presenter Name(s):

Predrag Kalajdzic

Area of the World from Which You Will Present:

Europe, Serbia

Language in Which You Will Present:

English

Target Audience(s):

Science and other teachers

Short Session Description (one line):

Adapting teaching processes towards the students' interests through the school science projects.

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

This presentation includes summarized works of students from our school with several research projects that we worked in collaboration with Science House Foundation. Extensive lessons in biology does not allow many students' initiatives. That's why we came up with the idea to make the project that involves activity in which students have a task to find the key lesson terms. In other words, students looked through a microscope what they considered important and interesting. In this way, we were able to follow their interests, and more important, motivate students to work and develop the necessary skills. One of the important skills was the ability to report on their work through blog posts by themselves.