Citizen Observatories as Advanced Learning Environments

Mominó, Josep Maria; Piera, Jaume; Jurado, Elena

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“…Besides several actions to promote, encourage participation in and increase the diversity of the Network, one resource, currently lacking from the majority of school curricula, is explored in ProBleu-CS: what is collectively known as 'citizen science', defined as work undertaken by educators together with communities to advance science, foster a broad scientific mentality or encourage democratic engagement, which allows society to rationally deal with complex modern problems [15]. Collecting and analysing data through citizen science [16] ensures that student activities directly contribute to fostering their ocean and water literacy. By fostering relationships between the school communities and their local waters, ProBleu-CS assists schools in developing project activities related to the SDGs, particularly SDG6 and 14.…”

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The Role of Citizen Science in Promoting Ocean and Water Literacy in School Communities: The ProBleu Methodology

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Human activities continue to degrade oceanic, coastal and inland waters. The generational change in the role of society in actively looking after the health of water resources can be achieved through the expansion of ocean and water literacy in schools. The Network of European Blue Schools established under the EU4Ocean Coalition for Ocean Literacy has improved ocean and water literacy; however, this Network needs to grow and be supported. Here, we present ProBleu, a recently funded EU project that will expand and support the Network, partly through the use of citizen science. The core of the proposed methodology is facilitating school activities related to ocean and water literacy through funding calls to sustain and enrich current school activities, and kick-start and support new activities. The outcomes of the project are anticipated to have widespread and long-term impacts across society, and oceanic, coastal and inland water environments.

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“…The power of citizen science, having been recognised by the scientific community [1], is resulting in an ever-growing number of related citizen science projects and activities, particularly on the topics of Earth science [2], nature conservation [3], as well as agriculture and food science [4]. It has been recognised that if CS projects are appropriately designed, children can be involved actively in citizen science activities, in which they can both learn from and contribute to research [5][6][7]. In particular, if such research is integrated into school curricula, their engagement can add significant value to formal education [8].…”

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Citizen Science as Part of the Primary School Curriculum: A Case Study of a Technical Day on the Topic of Noise and Health

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In this paper, we summarise lessons learned conducting citizen science (CS) activities within the CitieS-Health H2020 project on the topic of noise exposure and health at a primary school in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Activities were organised in the form of a School Tech-Day Event (STDE) as part of the school’s curriculum involving second-grade pupils, ages 7–8. The STDE was aligned with the project’s methodological framework, which is based on co-creation and co-design principles. To this end, the pupils initially were involved in identifying noise-related issues and translation of selected topics into research questions. Next, together with mentors, they participated in the process of hypothesis formulation and the designing of data collection protocols. Finally, they participated in three focussed noise measurement experiments, as well as data analysis and presentation. We report and critically evaluate the whole chain of activities, focussing on the participant dimension using selected components of the citizen science evaluation framework. The event was very well-received by both pupils and teachers, and their active participation and hands-on experience with scientific processes contributed to their improved scientific literacy. Overall, the demonstrated concept of CS activities has great potential for ongoing inclusion in the school curriculum in its current format, or else adjusted according to specifics from other science and technology fields.

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The Role of Citizen Science in Promoting Ocean and Water Literacy in School Communities: The ProBleu Methodology

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Woods²,

Parkinson³

et al. 2023

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Human activities continue to degrade oceanic, coastal and inland waters. The generational change in the role of society in actively looking after the health of water resources can be achieved through the expansion of ocean and water literacy in schools. The Network of European Blue Schools established under the EU4Ocean Coalition for Ocean Literacy has improved ocean and water literacy; however, this Network needs to grow and be supported. Here we present ProBleu; a recently funded EU project that will expand and support the Network, partly through the use of citizen science. The core of the proposed methodology is facilitating school activities related to ocean and water literacy through funding calls to sustain and enrich current school activities, and kick-start and support new activities. The outcomes of the project are anticipated to have wide and long-term impacts across society, oceanic, coastal and inland water environments.

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Citizen Observatories as Advanced Learning Environments

Cited by 5 publications

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The Role of Citizen Science in Promoting Ocean and Water Literacy in School Communities: The ProBleu Methodology

The Role of Citizen Science in Promoting Ocean and Water Literacy in School Communities: The ProBleu Methodology

Citizen Science as Part of the Primary School Curriculum: A Case Study of a Technical Day on the Topic of Noise and Health

The Role of Citizen Science in Promoting Ocean and Water Literacy in School Communities: The ProBleu Methodology

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