INTRODUCTION

This is a scientific project aiming to make students enthusiast for science by being creative using the theory they see in the science-lessons.

The students from different nationalities will form mixed-groups that will design a mechanically controlled car. To design the car they use theory about forces en pulleys, They will be inspired by the Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments that NASA develops.According to the goals in STEM-teaching, the pupils will be stimulated in problem-solving-ideas. In doing so, the students will both broaden their understanding and improve their social competence and language skills.

INVOLVED SUBJECTS

Physics, English, Information Technology

OBJECTIVES

• To stimulate the students to communicate in a foreign language.
• To enhance social competences and promote cooperative learning.
• To motivate the students to explore the world in a scientific way.
• To open up the minds of the students by letting them realize that what they study at school is important for other people too.
• To increase the motivation and satisfaction in learning at school.
• To help students to understand the role of science and technology in their lives.
• To improve the student and teacher ability to utilize information technology tools.

WORKING PROCEDURE

• Project opening with the creation of a logo (in a contest).
• Student presentations of themselves, their school, their town and their physics course.
• Brain storm: the students propose a model of a car. Every national sub-group has a sub-group of the other country. Those two sub-groups build a similar car.
• The students work on their car (in national sub-groups). They change parameters to see of their car drives better. The students make pictures and videos of their work.
• The different sub-groups  share their results, pictures, … with the sub-groups of the other country who made the similar car. The end result should be a common document (
• The students evaluate their respective works by a voting procedure to select the 3 best works.

EXPECTED RESULTS

• The students will acquire a deeper understanding of mechanical transmission.
• The involved physical concepts will become less theoretical and abstract and more linked to everyday experiences.
• Thanks to their participation in the learning activities, the students will improve their communication and linguistic skills.
• Thanks to the group work and the exchange with the twin school, the students will improve their social skills and emotional maturity.
• A variety of pedagogical methods and information technology tools will be used, so students and teachers will develop new competences.
• In addition to making the twinspace public, the results of the project will be disseminated in the participating schools (e.g. in the school web-site, student journals, teacher meetings, etc.).

ACTIVITIES AND TIME SCHEDULE

PERIOD	ACTIVITY	TOOLS
September	Introduction of the project – invite the pupils on the twinspace.	Twinspace .
September	Getting to know each other	Padlet
October	Presentations of our school, city and country.	Prezi, Video (movie maker), QR code, Padlet, Biteable, Powtoon…
26 Oct	Designing a logo, voting by Tricider	Canva, Desygner, Befunky, Kizoa, Shotclip, Video Tool Box
7 Nov	Conect online	Adobe conect
28 Nov	The first sketck of the car	???
December
January	Start making the car. Take pictures in the process.	??
February
March	The end of the project	Kahoot Final survey