Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 104

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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visited them in March) and creativity was
overflowing. Dubbing a video snippet from the
popular cartoon ‘The Smurfs’, inventing legends,
acting out old stories that had been kicked up a
notch by the kids’ creative genius (imagine a Red
Riding Hood who orders her clothes online, very
fashionable and smug or the Prince from Cinderella
rocking the Gangnam Style keeping on a straight
face with such professionalism while we were
laughing so hard we couldn’t even hear the lines
anymore)… this is what happens when students are
given the reigns of their learning.
Creativity is something innate to any kid,
something they should embrace, develop, use, build
upon and this is what our creative writing ideas
have helped them do so far.
The trading card kit is available to anyone to use in
any school or social gathering, the stories make for
some authentic and engaging reading
comprehension material and the methods we have
created can be replicated anywhere. All these are
available on our TwinSpace at:
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/71984/home.
scientific truths because this helps them understand
the world they live in and apply what they have
learned in practice.
A modern method that supports this idea is the
scientific experiment. With this method, children
are studying directly, being in direct contact with
reality, which leads them to learn by discovery. The
experiment is the fundamental science teaching
pathway, being considered a "pillar" for supporting
active methods. The role of the teacher is to direct
the execution of actions by children in order to
provide concrete-sensorial support, which will
facilitate the knowledge of certain aspects of reality,
not only by direct observation of an experiment, but
also by the individual execution of the experiments.
To adapt the field of Science, which is an extremely
abstract subject, to the preschool curriculum, a
group of 7 pre-school school institutions from 6
countries (France - coordinator, Estonia, Lithuania,
Portugal, Romania - Bistrita and Scornicesti - and
Turkey) ran an Erasmus+ KA219 Project called
"Small Scientists Across Europe" from 1 st
September 2017 until 31 st August 2019.
If you want your stories to be included in our e-
almanac, drop us a line on eTwinning. We would
love to read and listen to your stories, thrilled our
kit or methods are being used to spark curiosity
and keep the imagination alive.
Loredana Popa teaches English to primary and secondary
school children in Botosani, Romania. She loves IT, SF,
technology, science, PC games, languages and sports. I
am interested in using web 2.0 tools for teaching and
learning.
We are "Small Scientists Across Europe"!
by Elisabeth Gustovic
In the first years of life, the child learns especially
through contact with the physical and social
environment and the interactions he / she
establishes with them. For the child, activities in the
kindergarten are learning experiences and come to
complement the education provided within the
family.
By actively engaging, the child forms new
acquisition mechanisms, new operations, cognitive
structures, able to facilitate the acquisition of new
progressive information. Children like to rediscover
The coordinator of this project is Elisabeth Gustovic
from Ecole Maternelle Tordo in Tourette Levens –
France and along with the other project
coordinators like Natalja Varkki from Preschool
Põngerjas in Narva – Estonia, Jūratė Stakeliūnienė
and Almeda Kmieliauskaitė from Kauno lopselis-
darzelis "Giliukas" in Kaunas – Lithuania, Maria
Francisca Pessoa and Joana Minderico from
Agrupamento de Escolas Rainha Santa Isabel in
Coimbra – Portugal, Ionela Camelia Lazea from
Grădinița cu Program Prelungit Nr. 3 in Bistrița –
România, Loredana Mihaela Crînguș from Grădinița
cu Program Prelungit Scornicești in Scornicești –
România and Ibrahim Onur Gökdoğan from Huma
Hatun Ozel Egitim Anaokulu in Bursa – Turkey
managed to involve in the project around 1,000
pre-school children with their parents and another
70 teachers from the participating kindergartens.
This project was designed for pre-schoolers only
and is especially interesting for children of this age
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