Students in group or individually will explore and create resources for learning Sciences. The resources built may be used by students in the class or others to learn the concepts being studied.
Goals
- The students create a learning resources related to Mathematics and/or Sciences; - Involve students in a deeper understanding of a particular programmatic concept/topic being studied in the disciplines of Mathematics and/or Sciences; - Learn to mobilize different knowledge/areas of knowledge to the understanding and resolution of situations being studied. - Motivate students to study Mathematics, Sciences and Technology. - Develop key skills required for the XXI century: - Communication (in mother tongue and English); - Mathematic competence and basic competences in science and technology; - Digital skills; - Learning to learn; - Social and civic competences; - Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship; - Cultural awareness and expression. - Disclose to the school, including parents and guardians, the products built and the learning activities carried out by the students. - Constitute an archive of material that can serve as a working basis for future didactic units, to be used by school students.
Methodology:
1. Teachers from partner schools choose and decide the iTEC learning scenario to work with - http://itec.eun.org; 2. Presentation of the project to the class by the participating teacher(s) of the class. 3. Teachers and students of the partner schools use the TwinSpace to make their presentations, the presentation of the school and the surrounding area (PowerPoint, videos, padlet, liveshare,…). 4. Formation of teams and presentation/distribution of the themes to be developed by each group. Each team will work a scientific concept and produce a resource which illustrates it. 5. Students will be involved in oriented research for learning and will explore the contents (Widgets, Apps,…) 6. Throughout the process, the students perform short status reports regarding the progress of the work in the group (weekly recording in Team Up, blog, ...) 7. Throughout the process, the students share the theme and the develop of their work with the partner school teams and communicate/collaborate freely in stipulated channels (Facebook, TwinSpace, TitanPad, …) 8. The students schematize the results of their research, including the information and data collected, and group them (Popplet, Lino, mind maps, and other online collaborative tools ...) 9. The students build their prototype or product in audiovisual or multimedia format (Glogster Edu, eBook,Issuu …) 10. The students share their work with others (experts or teams of the partner schools) to receive feedback for a possible improvement 11. The students improve their work taking into account the feedback received and they complete their final product. 12. Final reflection and dissemination of the works through the established means (facebook iTEC channel, TwinSpace ...) 13. Evaluation of the works developed. 14. Presentation of the work iTEC/etwinning to the school, including the parents of the students involved.
Final Product
Construction of an audiovisual or multimedia product (Glogster Edu, eBook, Issuu, video, …) that allows its utilization by the class students and others for the learning of a particular programmatic concept/topic being studied in the disciplines of Mathematics and/or Sciences (Mathemactis, Sciences, Physical Chemistry, Biology, ...).
The project follows the methodology iTEC (Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom) (http://itec.eun.org)