Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 38

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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1. increasing student STEM ability, engagement,
participation and aspiration
2. increasing teacher capacity and STEM teaching
quality
3. supporting STEM education opportunities
4. facilitating effective school partnerships
5. building a strong evidence base
6. improving ICT skills
During the second eTwinning project, “What’s the
weather like #eTwCitizen2016?”, students
investigated weather in our lives, culture and
science, in literature (including popular sayings and
informative digital literacy), languages, science and
Maths (including astronomy, physics, environmental
studies) social sciences, religion, art, music,
history, psychology (ways of thinking at different
weather conditions, feelings related with the
weather forecast, careers related to weather,
climate change and sustainability).They used the
different intelligences they possess, bringing their
contribution to the team work and developing the
ability to identify, find, evaluate, and use
information effectively.
Scientix in our school – discovering STEM
focused on STEM education in primary and
secondary school. During the last two school years
the author’s school participated in several national
and international STEM projects aimed on
developing Mathematics and Science, ICT and
investigation skills.
ESERO - European Space Education Resource
Office is a project which provides collaboration
between ESA- European Space Agency and national
partners from thirteen ESA Member States: Austria,
Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland,
Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Sweden and UK. ESERO Romania
(http://www.esero.ro/) is based in the Romanian
Space Agency's (ROSA) headquarters in Bucharest;
it is co-funded by ESA and the Romanian Space
Agency (ROSA), sitting under the Romanian
Ministry of Education. By using the space context to
make the teaching and learning of STEM subjects
more attractive and accessible, pupils could feel
more comfortable and familiar with sciences in
general. The ESERO activities helped bring STEM
subjects within the pupils reach, demolishing the
misconception that science was only for geniuses.
Space, in particular, became not just a place of
inspiration and future dreams, but also an everyday
fact of modern life.
Space Awareness (http://www.space-
awareness.org/en/) strives to inform children and
young adults about current research and issues
related to space sciences and the numerous career
opportunities offered by space, and to show them
that space science can be fun and inspiring.
Educators can benefit immensely from the project
by taking advantage of the large array free high-
quality resources that are easily adaptable to
different disciplines and countries. Space Awar eness
offers a series complementary activities and
resources to inspire children from 8 to 18 years old,
primary and secondary school teachers, teacher
trainers, science educators, and families, in four
modules: Our Wonderful Universe, Our Fragile
Planet, Navigation Through Ages and Islamic
Heritage: the journey of ideas.
Scientix- the community for science education
in Europe (http://www.scientix.eu/home) has
received funding from the European Union’s H2020
research and innovation programme – project
Scientix 3 (Grant agreement N. 730009) and it is
coordinated by European Schoolnet (EUN). Scientix
promotes and supports a Europe-wide collaboration
among STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics) teachers, education researchers,
policymakers and other STEM education
professionals. Scientix collected around 500
projects results and over 2, 300 resources. The
”translation on demand” service is unique and free.
If you found an interesting resource and it was not
available in your preferable language and the
teaching material is eligible for the service, a
“Request translation” line appears at the bottom of
the page of the specific teaching material. Whether
or not a resource is available for translation
depends on these criteria:
1. It must be of direct use in class
(only teaching materials and not reports or
courses)
2. Its licence must allow modifications
and derived work
3. Authors or submitters of the
resource will have to provide an editable
version of the resource when filling in the
upload form
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