Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 66

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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STEM and the eTwinning project “Breaking
New Ground”
by Valerica Mititelu and Eda Karaca
STEM activities (Science, Technology, Engineering,
Maths) have become one of the most important
aims of the modern school in order to prepare the
students for their future jobs. That is why we
decided to start the project BREAKING NEW
GROUND based on STEM activities.
The starting point was the idea that ever since the
first prehistoric stone tools, humans have lived in a
world shaped by invention. Indeed, the brain
appears to be a natural inventor. As part of the act
of perception, humans assemble, arrange, and
manipulate incoming sensory information so as to
build a dynamic, constantly updated model of the
outside world.
Participants: students from three countries
coordinated by their teachers Eda Karaca- Turkey,
Valerica Mititelu- Romania, Aldona Sroka- Poland,
Anna Bajeck- Poland, Nilufer Dinc Demirok- Turkey.
The project is strictly connected with the featured
group https://groups.etwinning.net/45001/home.
Stefania Altieri is an Italian teacher. She is a Scientix
Ambassador and the Coding@schools eTwinning featured
group moderator. She likes ICT and innovative teaching
approaches. She believes in the role of educators of new
generations for a better and responsible future.
Students had to develop foreign language and they
had an opportunity to share their inventions with
other people from all over Europe. Using STEM
activities, they also had the opportunity to turn into
reality their inventions and prove if the hypothesis
was real or not.
When Gardner placed mind of frames in the
pictures of mind, learners believed intelligence was
single and fixed, were ready for journeys into this
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