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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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In April we studied mechanical engineering
“Elevator or Hydraulics”; engagement; Watching
videos; exploring; experiments and games about
“Acceleration, velocity, pressure”; Explain “E or H”
how they can be working; elaboration Model.
İn May our project finished and we had final
evaluation, gifting, drawings and meetings.
Each month the children made pretest and posttest
drawings which were stored by the teachers and
used for more fun activities.
Althroughout the project we planned 6 online
meetings: 3 with children and 3 for organization of
Project. All the activities carried out with preschool
children and the teachers were uploaded into the
project’s Twinspace.
All the activities helped the pupils develop
understanding and tolerance towards diversity and
find out about different countries and cultures. They
enhanced their social and collaborative skills,
improved communication and creative thinking, also
science and nature experiment skills.
İbrahim Onur Gökdoğan has been an eTwinner
since 2012. He has participated in many Learning
Events, webinars and eTwinning projects. He is a
preschool teacher in Bursa and has been teaching
for 7 years to children between 3 and 6 at
Kindergarten Hüma Hatun.
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Giving meaning to learning with eTwinning
by Anabela Cristina Tristão Santos
I am a primary school teacher working and living in
one of the beautiful islands of the archipelago of the
Azores, Portugal. I have been an eTwinning
Ambassador since 2014 and a Scientix Ambassador
since 2016. My students ranged from 5 to 11 years
old, as I taught a mixed classroom, 1st and 4th
grade students, this school year.
For three years now, since the 4th graders were in
the 2nd grade, we have been participating in a
national coding project called “Iniciação à
Programação no 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico” and
later “Programação e Robótica no Ensino Básico”.
We have been using a set of apps such as the ones
displayed on the “Hour of Code” activities page,
that are available all year-round, participating in
their event and others like “Europe Code Week” and
“Movimento Código Portugal: Codemove”, have
tried other apps as “Open Roberta Lab” and “Code
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