Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 60

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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The project was awarded the 1st prize at the age
category 16-19 in the 2016 Greek National
eTwinning Contest.
Theodora Gkeniou is an English language teacher in
secondary education and an eTwinning ambassador
in Greece. She has been moderating the ESL
featured Group for the past 2 years. She is
passionate about teaching and learning.
Claudine Coatanéa is an EFL teacher in upper-
secondary schools since 2005, an eTwinner since
2008 and an eTwinning ambassador since 2009.
She is presently teaching in Vanves near Paris.
Lucyna Nocoń-Kobiór has been teaching English for
20 years in lower- and upper-secondary school
Gymnasium ages 12-15 and Lyceum ages 16-19 in
the historical Town of Pszczyna (Pshtshina), called
The Green Pearl of the Silesian District, in the South
of Poland. She has been an eTwinner for 8 years.
STEM subjects in primary school – How we
opened the gates to the Universe
by Cornelia Melcu
My name is Cornelia Melcu and I am a primary
school teacher in Brasov. Additionally, I am a
teacher trainer of Preparatory Class Curriculum,
Google Application in Education Course and
European Projects Course and a mentor to new
teachers and students in university. I am an
eTwinning, Scientix and ESERO ambassador too. I
have been an eTwinner for 7 years now and I
strongly believe eTwinning helps my students to
perform better in school and prepares them for the
future.
During the last three school years my school was
involved in several STEM projects, as science,
technology engineering and mathematics are often
considered difficult. The main goal of those projects
was to develop basic STEM skills of our students
based on project work integrated into the
curriculum.
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Open the Gates to the Universe
(http://gatestotheuniverse.blogspot.ro;
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/12520/home) is an
eTwinning project for primary school students
started on September 2015 and finished on
September 2016. Our partners were from Poland,
Cyprus, Portugal and Moldova. The students
discovered different aspects of space science and
astronomy working on international groups. They
explored some aspects of Science included in their
curriculum using resources from ESERO,
ROEDUSEIS and Space Awareness (e.g. Calculate
with Rosetta, Writing the travel diary, Building
Rosetta , How to become an astronaut, etc.)
The project was a great opportunity to apply
integrated learning methods for developing
competencies which are a part of the primary
school curriculum in Romania. In Language and
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