The students of the Cairoli high school in Vigevano “teachers for a day” in the classrooms of the comprehensive institute in Viale Libertà to create educational-laboratory paths which ranged from the humanistic to the scientific area. The collaboration project between the two institutes ended with a very positive outcome.
On 15 and 16 February, thirty fourth and fifth grade students from Cairoli, after adequate training received from the teachers of the comprehensive, went to the classrooms of the primaries De Amicis and Anna Botto to observe daily activity and interact with children. On the morning of February 16, as a couple, they presented a civic education lesson to the host class on issues of environmental sustainability and the importance of everyone’s role in paying attention to the environment around us. There “peer to peer” methodology it proved to be the most suitable for conveying content to the little ones.
The first and second grade students of the De Amicis primary school transformed themselves into “scientists for a day” and, guided by the high school students, carried out workshops on Agriculture 4.0 and food safetyin which they experienced hydroponic cultivation first-hand, observed the fluorescence of chlorophyll (which makes it possible to monitor plant growth using drones and satellites) and highlighted the different components of flours and in particular gluten, the cause of a fairly common disease like celiac disease.
The proposal for the students of the school was different Robecchi mediawho were first involved in gaming and simulation activities to learn the principles of the circular economy and then became an active part of the process by joining the campaign of the Jane Goodal Institute Italia (JGI) association “Recycle your mobile phone”, creating Like this a collection point for old smartphones intended for the reuse or recovery of raw materials.
