On a tous vu répandre du sel sur les routes pour empêcher l’eau de pluie de geler. Les rivières et les lacs contiennent de l’eau douce. L’eau de mer est salée, et le sel est un antigel. De la glace se forme à la surface d’une bassine remplie d’eau douce dès que la température descend en dessous de zéro, mais il faut refroidir un peu plus l’eau de mer pour qu’elle se couvre de glace.
Be creative, share your work in class and stage the environmental changes that are affecting our oceans!
« mon océan & moi » invites school classes/groups to share their work on a theme related to the ocean by writing and acting a shadow play as well as producing a video of the show. This video will allow them to take part in the in the contest.
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".
MEDITES Phase 1 – OCEAN: OBSERVATION AND DISCOVERY learning pathway
The 2014/2015 school year has just ended and the first phase of the MEDITES project as well.
Qikiqtarjuaq is a small Inuit village, lying 100 km North of the Arctic Polar Circle, in the Nunavut territory (Canada). During 5 months, this village of 470 inhabitants accommodated more than 50 scientists from around the world. The main objective of the Greenedge project is to understand the functioning of the Arctic ecosystem.
The second edition of the ‘adopt a float’ day was held on Friday June 12 at the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche - Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche (CNRS-UPMC).
mon ocean et moi, encouragée dans les écoles primaires avec le dispositif ASTEP
Le mercredi 18 février 2015, s'est tenue à Nice dans les locaux de la Direction des services départementaux de l'Education Nationale des Alpes-Maritimes (DSDEN 06) à Nice, la signature de nombreuses conventions de partenariat entre la DSDEN 06 et des établissements universitaires et de recherches azuréens pour l'Accompagnement en sciences et en technologies à l'école primaire (ASTEP).
On Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th February 2015, the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche/OOV received about thirty middle and high school teachers from the vicinity of Nice. The « mon océan & moi » team offered a training course covering a wide range of topics such as the observation of the seas and oceans, acidification and plankton.
