Susanna Occhipinti

University of Camerino | UNICAM · Sezione di Geologia

The paper presents a research starting from an acquired analysis of a general lack of sensitivity towards the Earth Sciences in Italian schools, also extended to the social and cultural background. This research has mainly analysed the Italian context, and it highlights that the problem resulting from a lack of sensitivity directly leads to a lack...

The goal of the present research is to contribute to spreading in Italian schools greater awareness of the dangers derived from natural phenomena, such as landslides, floods or earthquakes. The essential steps are: developing the understanding of the territory’s inevitable evolution (derived from natural geological phenomena that normally concern i...

Teachers have an important role in helping students to choose the type of competition that suits their interests, goals and learning methods. Nowadays, there are several international competitions for high school students, focusing on different science topics. The International Earth Sciences Olympiad (IESO) is the youngest in the international sci...

The Italian National Association of Science Teachers (ANISN), established in 1979, aims to promote excellent performance in science among students. For this reason, annually the ANISN organizes a national competition for high school students. The 14th edition was held in 2016: 500 Italian schools took part in this contest. Within all them, 3000 stu...

The Italian National Association of Science Teachers (ANISN) was established in 1979 and represents a corporation which aims at initial and long-life learning of High and Middle school teachers. One of the Association’s purposes is enhancing the role of Science among new generation. For this reason the ANISN organize a national competition among st...

The aim of this work was to find models and guidelines to produce tools and paths to support the process of active teaching-learning of geosciences in school, and to make it more effective. Sets of activities produced during this project have been experimented in a significant sample of classes of different levels of education in the Valle d'Aosta...

This research, main subject of a PhD now in progress, aims to promote the teaching - learning of Earth Sciences in schools of all levels of educations, with the interesting opportunity to experience innovative and effective practices in our local contest, sharing them between all the teachers as a community of practice and all schools as an open la...

With the Department of Education of the Aosta Valley - Italy - I have been engaged, for a long time, to promote initiatives with the aim to disseminate scientific culture in order to support teachers in their work and to foster in students the acquisition of scientific knowledge, skills and literacy, as required by the international standards of OE...