30 June 2025 to 4 July 2025
Leiden University, Gorlaeus building
Europe/Amsterdam timezone
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Physics Debate: an Educational Path on Energy and Climate

3 Jul 2025, 15:50
20m
Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

Leiden University, Gorlaeus building

Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/locations/gorlaeus-building#tab-1
Poster Climate physics (CLIM) Parallel oral presentations

Speaker

Dr Marco Ghilardi (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia)

Description

The "Physics Debate: Energy and Climate" project is an innovative educational path, focused on climate change and energy issues, which exploits the debate technique (following the World School Style debating model). This activity was proposed, and still is, to many high-school students, with the aim of raising awareness on energy-environmental issues and their social implications, while teaching the importance of constructive debate. A pre-post educational test (30 questions) confirms its effectiveness.

Education level Age 15-18 (Secondary education)
Physics topic Interdisciplinary topics
Research focus Active learning
Research method Mixed method (qualitative & quantitative)
Organizing preference criteria Education level

Author

Co-authors

Dr Andrea Franzetti (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia) Dr Arianna Armanetti (IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca) Dr Chiara Aimè (Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Pisa and INFN Sezione di Pisa) Dr Daniele Aurelio () Dipartimento di Informatica Università di Milano) Dr Davide Santostasi (Liceo Scientifico Statale "Niccolò Copernico" Pavia) Dr Denise Trupia (ITAS "Carlo Gallini", Voghera) Dr Diego Maragnano (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia) Dr Ettore Budassi (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia) Dr Jacopo Braghieri (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia) Dr Marco Ghilardi (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia) Prof. Paolo Montagna (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia) Dr Simone Restelli (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia) Dr Simone Venturini (RSE-SpA Milano) Dr Simone Verdi (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia)

Presentation materials