A Collaborative Platform for Science Teaching at Elementary and Middle School Level

Abstract

This paper presents the collaborative platform we developed in the frame of the national educational project “Inquiry-Based Education in Science and Technology (i-BEST)” to support science teaching and learning from kindergarten to middle school. Two of inquiry-based science activities are described, activities designed to develop children observation, measuring and reporting skills in science classes. Technological aspects of the educational process are supported as school students are taught to build their own measuring instruments, learning in this way their operating principles