Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 72

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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Small scientists discovering the Earth
by Edita Vuković Antolović
The project “Small Scientists – Discovering the Sky”
started in January 2016 and lasted for six months.
It was awarded with National and European quality
labels, every partner has got one.
We have got first prizes at eTwinning national
awards in Portugal, Romania and Poland, and
second place prize in Croatia. In Turkey our project
was presented in Symposium at Alanya Alaaddin
Keykubat University. In Bosnia and Herzegovina the
project was presented at an eTwinning national
conference.
All throughout this school year, my partners and I
disseminated the project in our school in
professional development meetings, in regional,
national or international symposiums, contests,
newsletters or magazines.
We believe it really is a successful project and that
is why, this year, we continued our work in
eTwinning with another project on a different theme
Small scientists “discovering earth”. But that is not
all. We tried to push our work a little further and
also applied for an Erasmus+ KA219 project in
March 2017. While the wait continues for the
Erasmus+ results to come in, our eTwinning work
will continue just like before.
So, this year, we decided to continue our project
with the name “Small Scientists - Discovering the
Earth”.
The project “Small Scientists - Discovering the
Earth” started in March 2017 and lasted for five
months. 13 teachers from 9 European countries
were involved in the project: Poland, Romania,
Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Estonia,
Portugal, Greece and Croatia. We used English to
communicate during this project and all the children
involved were between the ages 3 – 7.
With this project our pupils improved their English
language skills, and they began to use computer
and IC technologies. Nearly 450 preschool pupils
had the opportunity to learn about other cultures
and languages.
I hope our results can motivate you too into
developing inspirational eTwinning projects and in
finding good and hardworking partners that you can
collaborate with to get such results.
Ionela Camelia Lazea is a preschool teacher from
Bistrita, a small town in northern Romania. She has
been teaching for 9 years to children between 3 and
6 at Kindergarten No. 3 Bistrita. She has been
active on eTwinning since 2010 and she has
participated in many Learning Events, webinars and
eTwinning projects and also a Comenius project in
2011-2013. She enjoys very much the challenges
eTwinning provides teachers with, and she loves
applying them into her work.
Project activities
In March all the partners were introducing their
classes, kindergarten/school, city and country.
Every partner made an eTwinning board and
introduced other partners in it. We used flags,
maps, globes, photos. In this month every
school/kindergarten planted a plant and the
children were active involved. They watched the
plants growth every day since, and then we made a
video about it.
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