IQS hosts a new edition of the teaching science in secondary education conference

Organized by the Official Association of Doctors and Graduates in the Arts and Sciences of Catalonia, a new edition of the Teaching Science in Secondary Education Conference was held at the IQS campus on 27 and 28 September. The event was held within the framework of the Training Plan of the Government of Catalonia’s Ministry of Education.

Under the umbrella title “Experimenting to learn,” a series of conferences, workshops, and exhibitions were held aimed at compulsory and baccalaureate secondary education teachers who work in the field of science with the aim of providing them with tools that may be useful in performing their teaching activities.

The conference began with a lecture by Dr Víctor López Simó, professor with the Department of Mathematics and Science Education at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, entitled “The didactics of science: a key tool for learning design.”

Subsequently, two parallel workshops were held during the first day of the event. The first was entitled “The use of light as a tool for medical diagnosis: activities for the medical photonics classroom,” and the other was entitled “Physics and Chemistry activities in schools and experiments in the classroom and laboratory.” These workshops were followed by a final session on practical ideas for classrooms.

The second day of the conference was mainly dedicated to workshops. In concrete, the workshops “Scientific challenges: what does water hide? Role playing”; “Antibiotics: resistant or sensitive bacteria?”; “Eight activities with homemade (or almost homemade) products”; and “Exploring new techniques to improve the future of biomedicine: 3D Scaffolds and Drug Delivery Systems.” The conference wrapped up with the closing lecture “Half a decade raising awareness about science: past, present, and future” by science disseminators Pol Garcia and Nil Salvat.

The Teaching Science in Secondary Education Conference has been organized by the Official Association of Doctors and Graduates in the Arts and Sciences of Catalonia, in collaboration with IQS – Ramon Llull University, the Catalan Chemistry Society and the Catalan Physics Society within the Institute of Catalan Studies, and the Government of Catalonia’s Ministry of Education.