mon océan & moi

26 Jul

Zoom on the OCEAN: OBSERVATION AND DISCOVERY pathway (MEDITES)

Experiments on buoyancy

Among the sessions that form the OCEAN : OBSERVATION AND DISCOVERY learning pathway (see the poster),proposed in the classes involved in the MEDITES project, the most appreciated ones were the following: "Buoyancy", "Ocean Properties" and "Robotic Observation of the Oceans".

Buoyancy Session

Discover how objects and marine organisms behave in the water...
What are the physical principles that explain and influence the buoyancy of an object in the water?

› Buoyancy Session - Documents to download :

• The poster Buoyancy Session -6.43 Mo (OCEAN: OBSERVATION AND DISCOVERY learning pathway)

• Teaching card "Petits Débrouillards" - Buoyancy Session -81.05 Ko (OCEAN: OBSERVATION AND DISCOVERY learning pathway)

Ocean Properties Session

Sea water is salty and ... what else?
Describe the seawater properties that are the basis for the formation of ocean currents.

› Ocean Properties Session - Documents to download :

• The poster Ocean Properties Session - 9.86 Mo (OCEAN: OBSERVATION AND DISCOVERY learning pathway)

• Teaching card "Petits Débrouillards" - Ocean Properties Session -75.93 Ko (OCEAN: OBSERVATION AND DISCOVERY learning pathway)

Robotic Observation of the Oceans Session

Will future oceanographers be robots?
How to build and program underwater robots that contribute to oceanography today?

› Robotic Observation of the Oceans Session - Documents to download :

• The Poster Robotic Observation of the Oceans Session18.98 Mo (OCEAN: OBSERVATION AND DISCOVERY learning pathway)

• Teaching card "Petits Débrouillards" - Robotic Observation of the Oceans Session(OCEAN: OBSERVATION AND DISCOVERY learning pathway)

The success of these three sessions was very probably due to our expertise gained in terms of disclosure of these issues, already fully developed in the context of other outreach projects promoted by the Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, such as “mon océan & moi” and “adopt a float”.

Indeed the “Ocean-MEDITES" pupils appreciated the very eloquent and fun experiments proposed during these sessions, as well as the discovery of robotic devices used by the OOV staff to study the world's oceans.

The MEDITES project (Méditerranée Diffusion des Techniques et des Sciences) consists in bringing scientific culture to the youth that are socially or territorially far from this type of background. Thirty partners, scientists, engineers, PhD students, scientific mediators, museum staff and others, have teamed up to offer different learning pathways to classes in the Alpes Maritimes and the Var, for 3 years. + More