Experiences

Hydrogeological Instabilities

Giuseppe Cortese

Italy

High Secondary School

Science

Teaching in class, Online Learning

Indirect

Experience has covered aspects hydrogeological instability in general, with particular reference to events that occurred in Italy or in the world and which the media have spoken of. The approach to the subject starts from experiences directly or by stories of parents about current events reported by newspapers or the web. Each student had the task of gathering information about an event that happened and expose it (even with the mate / y) to the whole class and then discuss the incident and to propose possible solutions. They had to apply the protocol of the "Scientific Method" and eventually suggest proposals and discuss them and compare them with the work done by other groups.
The difficulties in general are those of drawing attention to specific issues of discipline, who are often seen by the young as "distant" from real life. This has happened for the first part of the program carried out: the hydrosphere.
What has attracted the interest of the students is how the man , after all, seeks to remedy to natural disasters and sometimes even man-made. The topic flooding concerns very closely students who live in areas of the basin of the River Bisenzio and Ombrone Pistoiese. Some have reported evidence of parents and documents (photos and publications) related to disasters.