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GLOBE Jordan Incorporates Educational Games to Help Implement GLOBE Protocols During Near East and North Africa Regional Meeting
Coordinators from the Prime Ministry of Education during general tour of the exhibition
“Our story began when we prepared to host the fourth day of the GLOBE NENA (Near East and North Africa) Regional Meeting in Jordan in November 2022,” Reem Dahnous, a GLOBE Science Teacher/Head of Science Department at Alshouf International Schools in Amman, Jordan, said. “It was an amazing day by engaging students to play games that implement and serve all of the GLOBE protocols.”
Reem said the effort was designed to make “science and technology understandable and accessible to society by bringing together different age groups and individuals with different experiences.”
“Educational games are fun teaching tools prepared in line with the aims of the lessons and facilitate the understanding of the subjects.”
“They were handmade games from recycled materials that ‘we made it from scratch’ to let the students understand the protocols and get them close to the knowledge in a warm and lovely way,“ Reem said.
“From that day, me and my students were keen to transfer knowledge and experience to our colleagues in the school, so we prepared an educational games exhibition for all core subjects to start the new semester with new opportunity to make academic progress.”
Mrs. Mai explains the game for coordinators from the Prime Ministry of Education Mrs. Esara Alkhateeb
“It is important to me and my students because it is community awareness to recycle the materials and reuse it so they can understand that recycling helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions by reducing energy consumption and at the same time students played and engaged to understand the effect of climate change on the environment.”
Mrs. Noor explains how to implement robot in education and integrated robotics with science for Mr. Fawas and Mr. Hase
“From my point of view,” Reem said, “it is important to The GLOBE Program because, 1) students understand that there is climate change and it affects all of the Earth spheres; and 2) integration between core subjects in the schools is important so we can implement GLOBE protocols with different subject like math and hydrosphere protocol (including calculations and drawing graphs); art and atmosphere protocol (to make models for different types of clouds); English and all off protocols (by writing different stories) and, of course, all of the GLOBE protocols to be implemented in science class."
Ms. Reem explains the game for Coordinators from the Prime Ministry of Education, Mrs. Hiba, Mrs. Mnal, Mrs. Esara , Mr. Fawzi , and Mr. Jaser
Star Story submitted by Reem Dahnous, GLOBE Science Teacher/Head of Science Department, Alshouf International Schools, Jordan.