Universitat de València, through the Delegation for University Integration, has organised the 5th edition of Ciència ARA for students of high academic performance and/or of high capacities, at Burjassot-Paterna Campus. On the other side, Faculty of Biological Sciences hosted the first edition of DoCiència: School for Secondary Teaching Training.
Ciència ARA is a scientific activity programme that aims to respond to the demand of secondary centres that consider the need of paying attention to students with high capacities and/or performance by means of activities that favour their curricular enrichment and the development of their capacities. Concretely, the current demand that the centres asked for is for upper secondary school education students in the field of Sciences and Health Sciences.
In this fifth edition of Ciència ARA, several activities in the Burjassot-Paterna Campus have been offered. The selected students have carried out internships at the Aquarium Plant and at the Greenhouses of the Central Service for Experimental Research (SCSIE); in the Faculty of Chemistry they have worked in the “Disclosure of fingerprints and drugs detection” and at the Faculty of Pharmacy they have taken the course “Analysing urine and determining unusual and urinary infection.” They have also made the study of skin flora.
The programme Ciència ARA could expand according to the demand of the upper secondary school education centres and/or the offer of the centres of Universitat de València.
DoCiència: School for Secondary Teaching Staff Training
The Faculty of Biological Sciences and the Delegation for University Integration have organised for the first time “DoCiència: School for Secondary Teaching Staff Training.”
DoCiència is a training programme for secondary school teaching staff oriented to the update of scientific knowledge in topics of interest in several fields of Biology. The total duration was 30 hours.
DoCiència consists of two programmes:
- Summer school “Actualízate” with seminars to review topics of special interest such as Ebola and other mysterious viruses, the brain’s world, assisted reproductive technology, cancer, science, society and research.
- Winter school “Actívate”, that will be developed during the months of October and December. The secondary school teaching staff will carry out experiments and practical activities with techniques and material easily exportable to the centres. The content of the practical sessions are the following: Science at the kitchen, What is this bioinformatics thing?, We make a forensic laboratory, Cancer in your computer, and Recursoma.
DoCiència has the support of the Lifelong Learning and Educational Innovation Service.
More information at www.uv.es/incorporaciouv and www.dociencia.cat
Last update: 13 de july de 2015 11:06.
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