Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 113

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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Travellers Through Time
by Daniela Bunea
29 Romanian students, aged 11 and 12, learners of
English as a foreign language (current level: A1+
on the Common European Framework of Reference
for Languages – see
https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-
framework-reference-languages/level-descriptions),
owners of a make-believe time travel agency,
worked together in this classroom activity of 50
minutes and came up with recommendations for
their (prospective) customers to visit various places
in the past, as by travelling there they could find
out more information about important events,
sights and people connected to STEM careers. This
was Katalin Lörincz’s idea – see the blog post here:
http://blogs.eun.org/teachwitheuropeana/history/tt
a-time-travel-agency-ls-hu-02/. We implemented
part of her learning scenario (to be found here:
https://blogs.eun.org/teachwitheuropeana/files/201
9/01/Europeana_DSI_4_Learning_Scenario-Kati-
pdf-2.pdf), adapting it to my youngest students –
the final products were not brochures, but posters.
footballer/goalkeeper Helmuth Duckadam
(https://thesefootballtimes.co/2018/11/27/helmuth
-duckadam-and-the-dream-shootout-that-won-
steaua-bucharest-the-1986-european-cup/), the
Romanian dubbed “the Hero of Seville”, having
saved four consecutive penalty shots in the 1986
European Cup Final).
It was all part of the learning activities of the
Erasmus+ project 2017-2019 titled “Enhancing
student and teacher success through STEM
education” that has its own TwinSpace on the
eTwinning platform.
It so happened that we were scheduled to reinforce
describing people and places on April 16 th 2019,
and this was the day after the devastating fire in
Paris
(https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/15/europe/firefig
hters-notre-dame-intl/index.html), and in the midst
of all the comments a few groups of students chose
to advocate for travelling to disaster places such as
the Twin Towers
(https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/9-
11-attacks) on September 11 th 2001 with the idea
of doing STEM jobs that were of help to the people
involved, yet others decided upon either feasting
their customers’ eyes with the building of
impressive constructions by excellent engineers and
architects (such as the Great Wall of China
(https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-
and-history/magazine/2016/03-04/the-great-wall-
of-china/) or the Eiffel Tower
(https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument) –
choosing for the French tower for example the day
of the opening, yet another team opted for a date
for it 20 days before the finishing of its
construction…) or witnessing notable (somehow)
events (for their emotional state at the time, and at
their age…) involving people who had liked STEM
ever since they were at school (such as
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