Study of Mathematics Programs Imbedded in Digital Learning Formats to Bridge Junior and Senior High School Curriculums

The purpose of this study was to investigate the e-learning method in math to implement the curriculum articulation between junior high school and senior high school, and evaluated its learning effects to improve the implement method of curriculum articulation, to strengthen the students’ digital mathematical materials of curriculum articulation and to quantify the analyses of the students’ learning effects. The research strategies firstly concentrate on interviews to set up teaching content units; secondly evaluate and establish e-learning administrative platform, and then design e-learning materials in ADDIE systems. By previewing and revising contents of these materials, they are practically used in the library activities. In addition to record the pretest and post-test scores of the learners, the data of on-line voting are collected in order to do the comparative analyses to form conclusions as reference for the related researches.The research result showed that using e-learning methods to implement curriculum articulation activities got positive improvement not only in human efforts but also in materials and time; besides, the methods inspired the learners’ motivation, strengthened the learning effects and got the positive satisfaction in the whole learning activities. Researchers suggest that the related researches should be conducted continually so as to meet problems of curriculum articulation in new curriculum of senior high school and help those students who are in need to do automatically learning. Gradually, it can promote school into the learning resources center in the community. I

Memories of the 1969 earthquake in the municipality of Lamego (Portugal): an interdisciplinary project of curriculum articulation

<p>The 1969 earthquake was the most important and the last major earthquake to hit Portugal in the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Its epicentre was about 230 km SW of Lisbon, had a magnitude Ms = 7.9 and a magnitude Mw = 8.0. In Lamego, its intensity was rated as grade V (strong) and in most of the country, it varied from grade VI to VII of the modified Mercalli scale. To mark the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of this event, the project 'Memories of the 1969 earthquake in the municipality of Lamego' emerged from an interdisciplinary perspective of curriculum articulation. Developed throughout the school year 2019-2020, this project involves 60 high school science and technology students, and the subject areas of Biology and Geology, Mathematics A, Philosophy, Physics and Chemistry A, and Portuguese. To date, the following activities have been carried out: - an online survey was conducted on students' family/friends/acquaintances in order to gather relevant information regarding descriptions from those who experienced this tectonic phenomenon in Lamego; - reading and statistical processing of the obtained data; - research regarding the incident in the local press at the time; - creation of scientific posters with the collected data; production of a written critical reflection on the philosophical nature and the ethical and environmental consequences of earthquakes as “natural hazards”; organisation of a public session for the presentation of the outcome of the carried out research, together with the inauguration of the 'Earthquake of February 28<sup>th</sup>, 1969 - Local and National Memory' exhibition, composed of a set of posters and audio-visual material. This last activity was developed through a partnership with the Centre for Earth and Space Research of University of Coimbra and was a part of the program for the Science and Technology Week 2019 at the University of Coimbra, the main partner of this project, which also has the support of the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), the Portuguese Society of Seismic Engineering (SPES), the European Centre on Urban Risks (CERU), the Lamego Castle and the Latino Coelho School Cluster, Lamego. In the future, students will carry on with the statistical processing of the obtained data from the survey and will produce scientific posters to present at a national science congress for young students. This project aims to promote students' scientific literacy and involve them in the study of the History of Science of regional and national remarkable events, enhancing scientific attitudes that recognise the importance of contextualizing scientific facts for the proposal of solutions to complex problems. Furthermore, this project also seeks to involve the whole community in science projects.</p><p><br>Acknowledgments<br>CITEUC is funded by National Funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology (project: UID/Multi/00611/2019) and FEDER - European Regional Development Fund through COMPETE 2020 - Operational Programmer Competitiveness and Internationalisation (project: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006922).</p>