- Title: Project Planning “Science experiments project for 12-15 years old”
This planning was written by Lucinda Cardoso of Adriano Correia de Oliveira school, in Portugal, in collaboration with the European partners in the project: Maria Tzouma from Greece (Science teacher) and Malya Coqueret from France (Chemistry and Physics teacher)
2. Short description: Students from different countries will carry out collaborative project work, planning experiments in the scientific area, executing it and discussing results.
Final product: Presentation of a virtual science fair in Twinspace.
3. Language: English
4. Pupils: From 12 to 15 years old.
5. Subjects: Science, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, ICT( Information and Communication Technology), Visual Education and English.
6. Aims:
a) Encourage students to get to know each other and to establish cooperation;
b) Develop communication skills in English, for sharing experiences;
c) Improve students' digital skills and Science knowledge;
d) Promote innovation and good practices in Science dissemination.
7. Work Process
phase 1 – October
Contacts between founding teachers and member teachers.
Preparation of student's account.
Request of authorization from parents.
Talk about the project with our students.
Exchanges between all teachers: sciences subjects or chapter in each country, planning meetings dates, holidays dates.
Decide the chapters of science where we are going to carry out the experiments.
Each student writes on his profile to introduce himself.
Group work ( 3 or 4 students) : searching for information related to an experiment.
Launch of project logo proposals.
phase 2 - November
1st Skype : Students meet and introduce themselves.
Make a mindmap about science in life.
Make an announcement about the project of each group : poster, video or powerpoint presentation.
Each school asks two questions about each other school team experiment and post it on the twinspace.
For example : a French team will receive 2 questions from Greece and 2 from Portugal.
phase 3 – December
Exchange of Christmas Cards in Twinspace.
Each School sends Happy New Year Cards to other schools.
phase 4 – January/ February/ March/April
Groups of Students Collect the necessary materials for the experiments. Carry out the experiments and make a video of it. Upload it in Twinspace.
Each school asks 2 questions.
Phase 5 – April
Final product: Presentation of a virtual science fair in Twinspace.
2nd Skype : Talking about the experiments movie. Asking
questions to each other.
Making a cooperative mindmap about what the students have enjoyed most in the whole project.
Creating a google survey of the project
8. Expected results:
Learning digital skills, namely web 2.0 tools;
Dissemination of scientific experiences in an innovative way;
Acquiring language skills through cooperative learning and learning by doing.