About Us

The Earth and environmental sciences group is a young and dynamic team, and the only group in Israel which is involved in earth science education. This group introduced the earth sciences as an integral part of the science curricula. Our main research activities, have been directed towards the development of environmental insight through earth systems […]

Projects

High school curriculum development for the Earth science curriculum Preparing texts for a basic course "Introduction to Earth Science". Development of experiments for laboratory activities. Development of research projects for students named "Geotop". Development of a microcomputer simulation named Geo3D for learning geological structures and for the development of spatial visualization. Development of a module […]

Educational Software

Geo3D – A Software for Assisting High-School Students in the Spatial Perception of Geological Structures Download Geo3D Now Yael Kali, Carmel Gorni and Nir Orion. Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Geo3D is a software that was designed in order to assist high-school geology students in percieving geological structures, and in […]

Overview

The Earth and environmental sciences group is a young and dynamic team, and the only group in Israel which is involved in earth science education. This group introduced the earth sciences as an integral part of the science curricula. Our main research activities, have been directed towards the development of environmental insight through earth systems […]