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«Geoscience assistant professor Anne Egger took a class as an undergraduate at Yale University that examined how pure science connects to society. Not only did the class draw her in more dramatically than other classes had, it helped determine how she would engage future generations of students. [...] A course module she created, entitled Seismicity and Relative Risk, introduces students to real scientific data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and asks them to consider questions in which they have personal interest. Because of its effectiveness at bringing students into the world of real science and leading them to formulate questions stemming from their own curiosity, Egger's module has won the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction (IBI).

« En évoquant différentes manières, historiques, psychologiques, culturelles ou disciplinaires de saisir le temps et l'espace, nous commencerons par une forme de « prise de recul » sur les rapports aux espaces et aux temps. Nous proposerons ensuite quelques constats concernant l'acculturation scolaire à l'espace et au temps. Enfin, nous avons choisi d'analyser comment ceux-ci pouvaient interpeller l'espace et le temps à travers trois problèmes didactiques des sciences et des technologies. »