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Chimica nella Scuola

Percorsi didattici per la Scuola primaria

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2024): Chimica nella Scuola n.2 2024

Educazione scientifica e/o educazione ambientale

Submitted
17 May 2024
Published
20-05-2024

Abstract

This contribution describes a pedagogical way of addressing the problem of the environmental emergency that combines the method for teaching scientific education with an ecological perspective based on attitudes and behaviors. Starting from knowledge and discovery it is, in fact, possible to build emotional bonds with what we are observing. This is a first approach to the issue which, however, represents an attempt to underline some points useful to start the work in this direction.

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