Publication by Caroline Dupont

About the Author

It's with an open view of sciences that Caroline Dupont has been teaching chemistry at Cégep de the Sainte-Foy for 10 years. She sees chemistry as one of the tools to approach our environment on all scales. Her scientific background is varied: a major in geology (UQAM), a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemistry (UQAR and Laval University) and oceanography projects (Institut des Sciences de la mer in Rimouski). What motivates her daily is to bring her students to develop their scientific skills in authentic situations in order to promote their involvement in their environment.

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Published September 3, 2019

A Multidisciplinary Course to Initiate Students to the Scientific Approach in Natural Sciences

Caroline Dupont Teacher, Cégep de Sainte-Foy

How to prepare Natural Sciences students to the complexity of the problems that they will have to solve throughout their lives, both as scientists and as citizens? In an obligatory multidisciplinary course for the student of the Environment, Life and Society profile, my colleagues and I bet on problem-based learning. We use current environmental issues to offer students authentic and contextualized learning situations.

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