Bibliography - La main à la pâte

Selective Bibliography
● MEN: DGESCO, Academy of Sciences, La main à la pâte. – Learning science and
technology at primary school. - Paris: CNDP, 2007. DVD-ROM showing science lessons for
teachers self-assessment. English and Spanish subtitles
● Georges Charpak, Pierre Léna, Yves Quéré (2005). - L’Enfant et la science: La main à la
pâte 10 ans après. – Paris: Odile Jacob, 2005. Translated into Spanish (Argentina) by Siglo
XXI, 2005. Translations into German, English, Arabic (Egypt), Chinese and Japanese are
underway.
● MEN: DGESCO, Academy of Sciences, La main à la pâte, Academy of Technology (2005).
- Découvrir le monde à l’école maternelle: Le vivant, la matière, les objets. An
instrument for implementing the 2002 curriculum. - Paris: CNDP, May 2005. - 87 p.: ill.,
bibliogr. Translated into German and Chinese.
● La main à la pâte (1999 / 2005). - Graines de sciences: no. 1, 1999; no. 2, 2000; no. 3,
2001; no. 4, 2002; no. 5, 2003; no. 6, 2004; no. 7, 2005; no. 8 (to be published soon). –
Paris: Le Pommier. Several volumes translated into Serbian and Vietnamese.
● MEN: DGESCO, Academy of Sciences, La main à la pâte (2002). - Enseigner les sciences
à l’école (Teaching sciences at school), an instrument for implementing the 2002
curriculum. - Paris: CNDP, October 2002. - 126 p.: ill., bibliog. + CD ROM. Translated into
German, English, Catalan, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Serbian.
● Emmanuel Di Folco, Huguette Farges, Mireille Hartmann, David Jasmin (2002). - Mesurer
la Terre est un jeu d’enfant: Sur les pas d’Ératosthène. – Paris: Le Pommier. - 221 p.:
appendices, bibliog. + CD ROM. Translated into Persian and Arabic.
● La main à la pâte (2000). - Enseigner les sciences à l’école maternelle et élémentaire:
Guide de découverte. – Paris: INRP, December 2000.
● Georges Charpak (1998). - La main à la pâte (1996). – Paris: Flammarion. Translated into
German (Bletz, 2006), into Arabic (Chihab Editions, Algiers, 2001) and into Portuguese
(Inquérito, Lisbon, 1996).
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Internet Resources
● http://inrp.lamap.fr : Homepage of La main à la pâte.
● www.pollen-europa.net: The website of the Pollen project provides methodological
guides on several topics : inquiry procedure, teacher training, starting up a pilot project,
as well as teaching resources in English, which can be downloaded free of charge. In
particular :
- The Support Handbook for Establishing a Seed City for Science and Technology
Education is available at http://dwarfurl.com/8d026.
- The Designing and Implementing Inquiry-Based Science Units guide is available at :
http://dwarfurl.com/913ac4
● www.icsu.org, sub site ICSU in science/Capacity building/Teaching science. The portal
of the site Teaching sciences was set up by the ICSU – IAP (International Council for
Science – InterAcademy Panel), with the aim of bringing together decision makers
responsible for education and scientists. This portal lists the resources and international
projects which contribute to the dissemination of quality science teaching. It also gives
information on the educational activities undertaken by the members of the ICSU and IAP.
● http://lamap.bibalex.org: the website of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina offers documents
from La main à la pâte for teachers, translated and adapted into Arabic.
● www.sonnentaler.org: the German adaptation of the La main à la pâte website,
provided by the Free University of Berlin and the Berlin-Brandeburg Academy of Sciences.
● www.indagala.org : the Spanish adaptation of the La main à la pâte website, provided
by the University of the Andes (Colombia), with the support of the Convenio Andrés Bello,
the French cooperation and the Academies of science of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia
and France.
● www.handsbrain.com: the website of Learning by doing (China) presents the
achievements of the Chinese project and also provides teaching resources from La main à
la pâte translated into Chinese. Direct access: http://lamap.handsbrain.com.
● www.lamap.fr/projects: this webpage provides access to the different so-called
“thematic projects” from La main à la pâte. Several of the are available in English, as well
as other languages :
- In the steps of Eratosthenes – Measuring the earth’s circumference, enables classes
working in French, English, German, Italian, Spanish or Arabic to exchange measurements
and thus reproduce the experiment carried out by Eratosthenes to calculate the Earth’s
circumference.
- Europe, Land of discoveries, available in English, Italian and Portuguese, this website,
invites classes to carry out work related to great European inventions.
- Scientific discoveries in Islamic countries offers (in French and soon in Arabic) a similar
platform but with inventions and discoveries from the Islamic scientific culture.
- More projects are also available.
● www.fibonacci-project.eu: the website of the new European project of La main à la
pâte will be available soon, with plenty of free resources and methodological guidelines.
● http://lamap.inrp.fr/international : La main à la pâte will open soon a website
devoted to its international action and cooperation, where all useful documents and
info will be gathered on a single platform.
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