1. Improving Teacher Education in Maths & Science A Lifelong Learning Programme EU project, Key Activity 4- Dissemination. January 2009 to December 2010 25th September 2010, Ptuj

2. Issues addressed: Need to improve teachers’ education Need for a change in Science and Mathematics Education, to increase students’ interest, to stimulate teacher motivation. Use of ICT, development of new learning environments and approaches to teaching.

3. ITEMS objectives: To develop online modules (Integrated Teaching Elearning Modules) To organise Training Teachers Courses To mentor teachers using ITEMs To monitor the dissemination, impact measurements and the quality assessment

4. Consortium: CEFIRE, Spain European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium SLSS, Ireland Gymnasium Isernhagen, Germany Gimnazija Poljane, Slovenia

5. ITEMS modules: Science: –Astronomy, –Climate Change and –Electricity Maths: –Geometry, –Graphs and –Functions

6. Earth in the Universe Module in VLE Moodle Aimed for students 13 – 16 years old http://www.itemspro.net/moodle/cours e/view.php?id=65http://www.itemspro.net/moodle/cours e/view.php?id=65

8. Activities: discussion points quizzes glossaries forums

9. Module Scientific Content: Where is the Earth’s place in the universe? Day and night The Moon The seasons

10. The learning tasks are organized in a sequence defined for the following steps: Taking account of student ideas. the learning tasks are organized in a sequence defined for the following steps

11. Developing and using scientific ideas:

12. Promoting student thinking

13. Assessing progress:

14. ITEMS online courses: Electricity course (4-29 October 2010): Introduction to functions course (18 October – 12 November 2010): http://itemspro.net/moodle/

15. Contact Project web site: itemspro.net Co-ordinator: itemsproject@gmail.com