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In the last years we have realized in our schools that the number of students studying experimental sciences was decreasing year after year.

Students did not choose scientific options up to the point that biology could not be taught in 4th ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education) during the school year 2006-2007 (in Spain) due to the lack of registered students. Concerned about the problem, the Department of Experimental Sciences began to analyse the possible causes and we soon realized it was a global phenomenon.

The same problem was taking place in all around Europe. The usual teaching of Physics and Chemistry does not take it into account and focuses on the quantitative and operational aspects and ignores some aspects of science which, according to the research in didactics, could contribute to increase the interest towards those subjects as a more qualitative, experimental, more contextualised treatment, showing its contributions to solve human problems and needs.

It is in this last sentence where we find the leitmotiv of our project.

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