Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
involved in,” STEM Club” and” What’ s the weather like # eTwCitizen2016?”, with partners mostly from the Mediterranean area. eTwinning and Scientix at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Wien, Austria, 24-26 April 2017 by Cornelia Melcu and Cristina Nicolăiță
Every spring, EGU-European Geosciences Union General Assembly, gathers together, along with Scientists of different fields, a number of teachers from many countries around the globe for several years now. Each year, the conference has a main theme; this year ' s theme was the " Mediterranean Zone ". The EGU General Assembly 2017 was again a great success with 4,849 oral, 11,312 poster, and 1,238 PICO presentations. 649 unique scientific sessions together with 88 short courses and 322 side events created an interesting programme. At the conference 14,496 scientists from 107 countries participated, of which 53 % were under the age of 35 years, 15,000 copies of EGU Today distributed, keen media presence and reporting, and thousands of visits to the webstreams as well as to the EGU blog GeoLog http:// blogs. egu. eu / geolog /.
A special workshop was dedicated to STEM teachers, workshop called” The Geosciences Information for Teachers”( GIFT) Workshop. This year, the workshop brought together 80 teachers from Europe, but also from Japan, India, Mexico, the United States or Russia. Besides the very interesting presentations, the teachers were also involved in hands-on experiments and in a poster session, which was attended by hundreds of participants at the conference. From Romania, 5 teachers participated in the GIFT workshop and 10 at the poster session entitled” EOS3- Science in the tomorrow ' s classroom”, where the participants had the opportunity to present works, projects, lessons or relevant activities on STEM.( http:// meetingorganizer. copernicus. org / EGU2017 / posters / 22685).
Two eTwinning and Scientix Ambassadors from Romania, Cornelia Melcu and Cristina Nicolăiţă, actively participated in both activities, presenting the following posters: STEM and eTwinning in my school and Scientix in our school – discovering STEM.
STEM and eTwinning in my school presents the two eTwinning projects students from Gheorghe Magheru School Caracal, Romania, were actively
STEM CLUB project focuses on the introductory level STEM activities, as well as awareness of the STEM fields and occupations. This initial step provides standards-based structured inquiry-based and real world problem-based learning, connecting all four of the STEM subjects.
This international eTwinning project is designed for students from 6 to 11 years old and was implemented during the school year 2016 / 2017. The partner schools are from the United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Poland, Romania, Portugal and Turkey. The project focuses mainly on the introductory level STEM activities, starting coding and joining European Codeweek, planting seeds in classroom, joining European Robotics week, having an idea about Augmented Reality, creating an experiments bank and fostering to use technology in classroom. In this project, Project-Based Learning( PBL) is integrated into partner schools’ curriculum. Project’ s basic aims are:
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