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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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Space adventures
by Tatjana Gulic
This year one of my projects was again with my
good eTwinning partner Jano Pedeutour from
France and two other colleagues: from Italy Michele
Rapuano and Katarzyna Mazur from Poland joined
us.
During summer holidays we agreed about how and
mostly what we will do. At first, we just wanted to
work on our Solar System, but students wanted to
know as much as possible about planets near other
stars, the so-called exoplanets. At the same time
we aimed at improving our students’ knowledge of
English and sought to achieve a common awareness
about the importance of science. We also wanted to
encourage the concept of citizenship through digital
citizenship, strengthening our students' ability to
think critically while exploring and investigating,
and to promote cooperation and fellowship among
the students of different countries.
We organised many collaborative activities: “what
do I know of you” with comments given by
partners; votes for logo and title of the project;
multilingual glossary was made collaboratively with
several hands; exchange of information about
national astronomer and production of biography in
free format only based on this info without the use
of Internet; we organised original way to explore
the schools with robots or smartphones following
instructions given by partners; we produced
interactive posters on each planet of the Solar
System, and the information on these posters was
used for the final board game.
A great experience for us were the meetings with
astronomers! This part of the project was awarded
on STEMAlliace competition. We prepared questions
online, asked by all partners in forums. One of the
meetings was on-site at our school. Ms. Marija
Strojnik, Slovenian astrophysicist working now in
Mexico, visited us and answered our questions and
also told us about life in Mexico. It was an amazing
experience for us! Another great meeting was an
online video conference with astrophysicist Sean
Raymond.
The project was fully integrated into the syllabus.
The students worked on basic competences:
answering a questionnaire, talking and interacting
with their partners in English, creating a
multilingual glossary (with genial.ly) and games;
basic competences in science and technology were
achieved through calculations, models, equations
and research.
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