Formerly known as European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences
Our inspiring educational experiences share the scientific discoveries of EMBL with young learners aged 10-19 years and teachers in Europe and beyond. We belong to EMBL’s Science Education and Public Engagement office.
BIOcean5D Professional Development Workshop for Teachers
Do you want to refresh your teaching and inspire your students with planktonic life in a free of charge workshop using a unique microscope that you can add to your school inventory? Then, form a group of maximum four teachers from your school and apply for the Diving into the world of plankton workshop where you can use the Curiosity microscope and the classroom materials we have developed for teachers. Participants work hands on with the microscope and visualise microscopic plankton using their phones or tablets and explore the educational content and the tools to use in their classrooms.
Target audience: Secondary school science teachers
Workshop duration: 3 hours
Group size: maximum 3 schools with between 2 – 4 teachers from each school
Workshop language: Official language of the country or English
Workshop content
During the workshop, teachers will:
Concepts in focus
Using a microscope, cells, trophic interactions, analysing and interpreting visual information
Relevant Curriculum Links
International Baccalaureate: A2.2.3, A2.2.10, C4.2.2, C4.2.3, C4.2.6, C4.2.8, C4.2.10
GCSE: 4.1.1.1, 4.1.1.5, 4.4.1.1, 4.7.1.3, 4.7.4.1, 4.7.5.3
Advanced Placement, Fall 2020: 2.1, 3.5, 8.2
Classroom Materials
All the available classroom materials are stored in the Zenodo depository and are currently available in English and German. French, Italian and Spanish translations will be deposited in the same space as well.
Follow the link to access the English document: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11349020
About the Curiosity Microscope
The curiosity microscope, primarily crafted from wood, differs from traditional ones by incorporating a camera for connection to phones, tablets, or computers, offering portability for unconventional terrains.
About the project
BIOcean5D is a pan-European initiative using advanced tools like eDNA/RNA sequencing, acoustics, remote sensing, and AI to explore marine biodiversity from viruses to whales. The project also aims to provide teacher professional development and enhance ocean literacy.
We expect participating teachers to reach the workshop location by themselves.
Workshop Locations
EMBL Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SD, UK
EMBL Grenoble, 71 avenue des Martyrs, CS 90181, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
EMBL Rome, Via Ramarini 32, 00015 Monterotondo (RM), Italy
EMBL/PRBB, Carrer del Doctor Aiguader 88, 4th floor, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
“Diving into the world of Plankton” professional development workshop is offered for secondary school science teachers located near EMBL sites in the UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. The 3 hour long workshop focuses on exploring planktons using a camera mounted light microscope. The workshop provides the school teachers with classroom materials and a free of charge portable light microscope for their school inventory. Please ensure that you have read all workshop related information and are confident that you can attend the workshop before filling out the application form. Applications will be processed on a first come first serve basis.
Places and dates of the workshops
Thank you for your interest in our first ever plankton workshop. You can read more about it here: https://biocean5d.org/sparking-curiosity-the-curiosity-microscope/
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For questions contact: efraim.culfa@embl.de
We ask participants to only apply if they are certain that they can attend the whole workshop. In case you need to cancel your attendance after having confirmed your participation, please notify us as soon as possible by email, so we can give your place to somebody on our waiting list.
Please see a draft workshop schedule below.
Workshop duration: 3 hours
EMBL’s Science Education and Public Engagement office shares the scientific discoveries of EMBL with young people, teachers and the diverse public in Europe and beyond. Our education programmes convey complex, cutting-edge topics in life science research in an exciting and insightful way, fostering the discovery of current research trends, the scientific method, and scientific career paths. Our teacher training courses empower educators to bring modern life sciences into the classroom. Visit our website for further information about our activities.
EMBL SEPE co-leads the workshops with the Plankton Planet NGO.
Time: See the Application section
Topic area: Environmental biology
Format: Face-to-face
Location: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
Fee: Free of Charge
Contact: Efraim Culfa
Organiser: SEPE
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