Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
things work, c) explore engineering as a career option d) learn math and sciences while having fun e) engage in real world engineering problems.
Digital teens researched how STEM implementation may help everyday life and discovered how they can support in volunteering based actions. The STEMLand project achieved to promote participants to discover, investigate, research, evaluate, become aware on environmental issues, develop their skills on linguacy, economy, technology, collaboration, socialization and increase their creativity and fantasy by creating artifacts.
In the issue of Technology participants implemented activities on SaferInternet and they created comics for giving advices to kids, teens, teachers and parents about how they should behave to be safe in web and protect themselves. The Greek School was awarded with the silver label of the eSafety project. Also, they navigated themselves to Foretell in which they played and learned the need to promote a culture of safety in Europe against natural calamities, such as floods and fires. They also tried to discover the Social media effect on dopping in the context of the Dopout project.
Partner schools created national groups according to De Bono 6 Thinking Hats and focused on STEM issues according to their choice. Transnational Groups, with ICT as supporter, shared material, compared, recorded cultural differences and coproduced digital artifacts. The Calendar of activities in the six months period of the eTwinning STEMLand project included: i) Educational contract of Students’ National Groups and Trasnational Teachers’ group ii) To Know us better as teams, as schools, as cities, as countries / teleconference and educational contract between transnational groups, iii) Research STEM issues per Group, negotiate, vote, decide and logo competition iv) TAKE ACTION plan, create, Implement and share( formative evaluation) v) TAKE ACTION and SHARE vi) Preparing the final Product, Project Dissemination( summative evaluation).
After research in STEM students focused on the four issues of the project. In the issue of Science students engaged in embodied learning activities, intended to promote and externalize conceptual understanding in science. So, they described any physical idea / phenomenon / theory using their bodies and chose to start with the physical states of matter. They presented depicted solids, liquids and gases through dancing and particularly in Greece they participated in the National Competition“ Physics in Arts” and they were awarded with the first prize. https:// youtu. be / lJZEzKUbKxg
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