Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 8 Visibility of eTwinning Projects Newsletter 8 | Page 29

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ transdisciplinary teaching. So, in 2017 we started to implement the Maths&Languages (M&L) Erasmus+ project. This 3-year project intends to develop the transdisciplinary approach with (and for) Math teachers and foreign language teachers. In this project we integrate foreign language teaching (English and French) into the Math research workshops by using a CLIL approach in the Math research workshops. Students’ e-collaboration within the M&L project is ensured through the ML eTwinning project (https://twinspace.etwinning.net/46465) and Google Drive. In this way, we are convinced that we will improve students’ collaboration and they will manage to co-create. Ariana-Stanca Văcărețu is a Math teacher in Cluj- Napoca, Romania. She is a Scientix Ambassador and a Global Math Ambassador for Romania. She has experience in – and promotes – inquiry-based teaching and learning, and the development of scientific literacy skills and transversal skills through STEM subjects. She is an Awarded eTwinner. STEM-Scientix-eTwinning experiences by Franca Sormani I have been participating in STEM projects on eTwinning for years, always with great pleasure to me and my students. I started with little projects related to my subject, and when I realized the huge potential of working on eTwinning platform with other colleagues, sharing good practice, I moved on more ambitious projects. Since my goal is to equip my students with the necessary skills to be future responsible citizens, encouraging them to solve real-world problems, in particular the environmental issues, I have been working on the review of the curricula of Physics, starting from the sustainability problems and I planned the eTwinning eHAND (effects of Human Acitities on Natural Disasters). Indeed, according to recent research studies, it is very likely that human activities will impact future catastrophes, while population growth and urbanisation make communities much more vulnerable to natural hazards. Several studies confirm that effective results can be obtained in this field by combining direct experience, observation, discovery and action, so disaster and risk education should be part of the national schools curricula and be included in school subjects. So we started from the problem: natural and induced earthquakes on eTwinning, with results so terrific in the STEM field that we decided to apply for an Erasmus+ grant. The Erasmus+ project eHAND involves seven partners and aims at arming students with the necessary skills to be future “good citizens” and contribute to the achievement of the goals of the Europa 2020 and Agenda 2030 strategy, focusing sharply on more complex social issues, such as the links between environmental quality, human equality, human rights and peace, and on the critical role of science and technology in understanding and mitigating the effects of extreme events. More details on the project at https://twinspace.etwinning.net/15801/pages/page /8552. 29