1. Equipping the Next Generation for Active Engagement in Science
EngagingScience.eu
European Project

2. Equipping the Next Generation for Active Engagement in Science
EngagingScience.eu
How can we ensure that
students apply
science to their lives?

3. ENGAGE is part of the Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI)
agenda to help Europe respond to societal challenges.
ENGAGE aims to help students analyse emerging issues and
develop informed opinions on science and technology.
Cutting-edge
Science and
Technology

4. • To help teachers address contemporary science issues
and applications relevant to students
• To develop teachers’ beliefs, knowledge and classroom
practice for ‘RRI’.
• To provide students a strong foundation to engage in
science issues they will meet during their lives
Teaches big
curriculum
ideas
GOALS

5. Online Teacher's community built around
• Science-in-the-news and Open curriculum materials
• Massive Open Online Courses for just-in-time learning
• Brokering system for creating school-scientist partnerships
COLLABORATIVE
LEARNING FOR
TEACHERS

6. In order to maximise student achievement,
ENGAGE builds on a range of:
 research-informed pedagogies
 guided inquiry
 explicit skills teaching
Enquiries into
life-changing
science

7. ENGAGE focuses on a more inquiry-based methodology,
which gives students opportunity for self-expression and
responsibility for coming to informed decisions.
CURRICULUM MATERIALS
to get students talk and think

8. The Engage “RRI” curriculum
We are equipping students to evaluate claims, weigh up
science & values, argue opinions and compare
solutions.
Science-in-society knowledge
Scientific inquiry skills
Big
science
Values
thinking
Science
media
Define
problems
Evaluate
solutions
Construct
arguments
Critique
arguments
Interrogate
media
Technology
impact
Communicate
ideas

9. 60 inspiring Dilemmas
What does the fox say?
Sound, Argument
We use the viral video to raise a serious question: can we understand animal talk?
‘Bowlingual’ detects a dog’s emotions by analysing a bark’s sound waves.
Students look at emerging research to decide what else the technology can do.
Can we translate the sound waves into human speech?
Grow your own body
Organs, Argument
As people live longer the demand for new organs to replace failed ones increases. Is it
possible to build new organs in a dish from cells taken from the patient’s body? Does this
new technology offer a good alternative to transplants. Will we be able to build new organs
to replace damaged ones within 10 years?
Ban Coke?
Health, Evidence
Now that scientists have discovered that sugar is like an addictive drug, pressure is
building for action to reduce the amount of sugar children consume in soft drinks. What is
the evidence for causal links between sugar consumption, obesity and disease? Is there
enough strong evidence to ban sugary drinks?
Ebola: trial the vaccine?
Genetics, Decisions
The scenario is: scientists are fast tracking a vaccine to fight Ebola – will students
volunteer to test it? They gather information from different sources, weigh up benefits and
drawbacks and apply what they know about genes to decide if it is a risk worth taking.

10. Problem
Practical strategies for using socio-scientific issues as
a curriculum approach
• Dilemma Lessons and Case Studies to make learning
authentic
• Group Discussions and Question Patterns to build
reasoning and understanding
• Argument Framework and Gradual Release to teach
knowledge and skills
6 Teaching Tools

11. 4 Integrated components
Workshops
Learning from experts in socio-scientific teaching, explore all the
ENGAGE components, and practise using the curriculum materials
and Tools.
Online Courses
Flexible, inquiry-based modules for ‘just in time’ learning based on a
cycle of conceptual input, classroom practice, reflection, and peer
collaboration.
Community
Q&A support from project teachers, scientists and curriculum
specialists on how to get the most from of the materials.
Curriculum Materials
Dilemmas to teach and apply science in society knowledge and
inquiry, and open-ended projects to interact with scientists.

12. which will propel teachers in their own inquiry
to become expert with RRI:
1. Adopt, combines exciting learning materials, online community,
online courses and workshops for coaching and feedback.
2. Adapt, offers expert’s toolkit of examples, explanations,
anecdotes and activities to help students learn effectively.
3. Transform, provides open-ended projects to put teachers and
students into partnership with practising scientists, to learn about
RRI directly.
Three-stage path

13. ENGAGE CONSORTIUM includes 14
Institutions from 12 countries with extensive
experience in IBSE, RRI, teacher training,
and curriculum design

14. Engaging.Science.eu
Contacts: Tony Sherborne (Project Coordinator)
tonysherborne@gmail.com
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Color explosion Vasja Podbršček | Dreamstime.com
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Ipad KMi | OU