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23.03.2021Nanoinventum incorporated to STEAMcat program
Starting next year, Nanoinventum project will be incorporated to the pedagogical innovation program STEAMcat, program that encourages the generation of center projects that involve a methodological change towards transversal learning with interaction with the environment and enhancing the STEAM areas.
Nanoinventum is a pedagogical proposal that was born in the CCiTUB with the desire to bring the world of science and nanotechnology closer to primary school students. In the Project Centre de Recursos Pedagògics Específics de Suport a la Innovació i la Recerca Educativa (CESIRE) particpates with the collaboration of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC).
School teachers are initially trained in nanotechnology by technicians from CCiTUB and other collaborators. In addition, they are given the "NanoExplora" briefcase with the necessary material so that children can learn the basics of nanotechnology. Once children have received this training, they should try to solve a scientific challenge. In order to do so, they must design and build a nanorobot documenting their project.
Thanks to FECYT, boost, Nanoinventum has been able to expand the number of "NanoExplora" briefcases available, in order to make nanoscience understandable and closer to more primary school teachers and students. Along these lines, Nanoinventum is constantly generating new content and one of the latest novelties incorporated to the project, has been the creation of a weekly newsletter providing more teaching resources to teachers and disseminators that may help to explain terminology, technology and processes in the nano world.
STEAMcat Program
The STEAMcat pedagogical innovation program consists in supporting the centers through advice, the creation of the STEAMcat community, training and resources. Taking advantage of the distributed leadership of the center, the methodologies, perspectives and technologies appropriate to the classroom and the transversal work of the teaching staff, the critical thinking of the students is encouraged, the social perception of science is improved, in order to promote the selection of post-compulsory STEM studies for a positive change in students' self-perception towards these disciplines.