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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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Let’s see some examples and ideas for cross-
curricular eTwinning projects:
Scientix and literature
If teachers, for instance, would like to improve in
their students the skills of writing stories and short
novels, they could look for the resource “HOW TO
CREATE TALES” where they and their students can
be inspired by knowing about space, through solid
scientific bases, using a literary form that can be a
novel or also comics. Students can imagine a
mission design, a travel, an exploration of a planet
or solar system, etc. And why not developing a
collaborative storytelling project taking ideas for the
plot from the project “BOOK OF SCIENCE
MYSTERIES”?
Scientix and classical languages
What apparently further from STEM than classical
languages? Scientix can have a solution also for
teachers who want to involve Science and ancient
classical authors: have a look at the project
“FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF
ERATOSTHENES: CLASS ACTIVITIES” and you will
see that it is possible to connect the ancient Greek
language and astronomy. Another idea can come
from the project “PHYSICAL AWARENESS”, where
students translate into different languages some
texts about Pheidippides.
Scientix and History
With the eTwinning kit “EXPLORING HISTORICAL
SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS THROUGH THE WEB”
pupils have acce ss to multimedia web resources
that allow users to discover and explore delicate
scientific instruments, such as Galileo’s compass,
telescope, microscope and others. And what about
the project “MONASTIC INK: LINKING CHEMISTRY
AND HISTORY” where students can learn how they
can investigate and prepare iron-gall ink, a
historically significant material for the transmission
of knowledge?
Scientix and Music
If Music teachers decide to develop an eTwinning
project cooperating with Science colleagues, they
can get some inspiration from the project “CREATE
YOUR OWN ASTRO-MUSIC”, where students learn
about astronomical phenomena we can see in the
universe and create their own music inspired by
astronomical images. Some ideas of collaborative
project between Music and Physics can be seized
from the project “MUSIC TO THE EARS: DESIGNING
AND CREATING A SOUND GENERATOR”, where
pupils can undertake experiments in which they
discover the properties of sound. They also discover
how the size of a resonance box influences sound,
and can make peer-to-peer lessons for some
foreign mates. And what about Music and Medicine
connections? In the project “MUSIC, MIND AND
MEDICINE” you can get some ideas about how
students can explore the nature of auditory illusion
and delusion, the effect of music on our minds and
bodies, and the potential for music in medicine.
Scientix and Art
Many different ideas contained in Scientix can help
an Art teacher: high school teachers could use the
materials in the project “CHEMISTRY AND ART:
CHEMISTRY AND METAL OBJECTS OF CULTURAL
HERITAGE” about the preservation of metal objects
of historical value, while a primary school teacher
could have a look at the content of the project
“DESIGN YOUR ALIEN” where students can review
the environmental factors that make the Earth
habitable and they can compare them to other
worlds within our Solar System using their creative
thinking to design an alien life form suited for
specific environmental conditions on an extra-
terrestrial world.
Scientix and the law
Are you a Law teacher looking for engaging ideas
for an eTwinning project? Have a look at these
ideas:
- the project “NEUROSCIENCE AND THE LAW”
encourages students to debate issues such as:
diminishing responsibility; the limits of
neuroscience; a question of free will; if or not
neuroscience should transform our understanding of
criminal responsibility;
- in the repository “LEARNING RESOURCES AND
REPOSITORIES” you can find learning resources
related to the concept of copyright.
Summing up
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with eTwinning, teachers can interact with
partners using a PBL approach;
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with Scientix, teachers can find good ideas,
resources and colleagues interested in the
same topics with which to develop projects.
Enrica Maragliano is a Math and Physic teacher at
Liceo Classico e Linguistico “C.Colombo” in Genova
(Italy) and an eTwinning and Scientix ambassador.
She is a former Computer Science teacher and ICT
employee. She likes cross-curricular approach in
her teaching and loves learning new things.
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