This project has five partner schools from Croatia, France, Ireland, Italy and Portugal. We all agree that to have contact with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) activities is very important in the early age, but STEM is based on skills generally using left side of the brain. An innovative approach that we will use with young students is synergy with Art and this is called STEAM. Activities like Art use the right side of brain and art education is key to creativity in activities we plan to implement in our project.
We will also use a lot of web 2.0 tools suitable for students of a certain age in order to include digital component into the everyday curriculum and to show all our students the importance of digital literacy. We will also introduce 3D printing and its different applications, robotics and coding in a fun way. The curriculum must change and innovate to suit the newest generations of learners and future engineers. We want to encourage girls and boys to try everything from coding and robotics, organising and preparing a mission, physical activities on an astronaut polygon landscape to arts and design of a Mars rover, Mars habitat, Exoplanet or an alien. We will include gamification to make the learning process interesting but also students will program their own games. Visually impaired students, students with disabilities as well as gifted students will be included in the project.
For better students’ learning outcomes teachers’ competences are powerful tools. We find it very important to stimulate teachers’ lifelong learning and professional growth. One of the ways to do it is working on international projects and teacher training events. They give opportunities to gain new knowledge, collaboratively design creative activities and imply the use of ICT in your teaching and to become more self-productive and self-aware.
We will open our schools to the local community and stakeholders, to the science institutes (European Space Agency, research centers, Observatories) and kindergartens. Firstly by the help of a renowned scientist Jean Pierre Lebreton who has been our biggest supporter and by having different STEM professionals as our guests and by visiting different research centers. These actions will help students develop an interest in science and technology, introduce them to the idea of global citizenship and show them how to collaborate as part of an international community.
We will also use a lot of web 2.0 tools suitable for students of a certain age in order to include digital component into the everyday curriculum and to show all our students the importance of digital literacy. We will also introduce 3D printing and its different applications, robotics and coding in a fun way. The curriculum must change and innovate to suit the newest generations of learners and future engineers. We want to encourage girls and boys to try everything from coding and robotics, organising and preparing a mission, physical activities on an astronaut polygon landscape to arts and design of a Mars rover, Mars habitat, Exoplanet or an alien. We will include gamification to make the learning process interesting but also students will program their own games. Visually impaired students, students with disabilities as well as gifted students will be included in the project.
For better students’ learning outcomes teachers’ competences are powerful tools. We find it very important to stimulate teachers’ lifelong learning and professional growth. One of the ways to do it is working on international projects and teacher training events. They give opportunities to gain new knowledge, collaboratively design creative activities and imply the use of ICT in your teaching and to become more self-productive and self-aware.
We will open our schools to the local community and stakeholders, to the science institutes (European Space Agency, research centers, Observatories) and kindergartens. Firstly by the help of a renowned scientist Jean Pierre Lebreton who has been our biggest supporter and by having different STEM professionals as our guests and by visiting different research centers. These actions will help students develop an interest in science and technology, introduce them to the idea of global citizenship and show them how to collaborate as part of an international community.