March 27, 2017
President ECOSF Dr. Manzoor Soomro of Bonn, Germany visited the German "TuWaS!" (Technik und Naturwissenschaften an Schulen, Technology and Science in Schools) in Cologne on March 8, 2017. "TuWaS!" promotes inquiry-based science education (IBSE) in primary schools in Germany. It was founded in 2007 as a cooperation between the Freie University Berlin, led by Professor Petra Skiand, the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and is based on the five pillars of the Smithsonian Science Education Center's LASER model: 1) professional development of teachers, (2) providing teaching material, which is (3) curriculum based, (4) the involvement of the community and (5) assessment. TuWaS! has trained over 1000 teachers and serves over 170 primary schools in four different German states.
Read more at http://www.eco4science.org/TuWaS