摘要：AbstractThe main aim of the authors is to describe an unconventional teaching way, an add-on for the classical teaching process: the school research projects. We focus upon the manner in which this kind of projects can be implemented in the science curriculum and the ways they can improve it. One of our goals is to describe some projects developed under NASA supervision – NASA Quest LIMA Challenge for Students, HiRISE: High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, The International Aeronautic Contest, Starcount, and the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), as well as a number of projects developed under prestigious European Research Institutes – INFN, Italy, LIP and FCUL, Portugal. We study the impact made by these school research projects upon the progress achieved by the students.
