Young Scientists Discover the World Erasmus Project

Project Title

Young Scientists Discover the World

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Natural sciences; Creativity and culture; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Working on the project students are going to learn science through European outstanding personalities who devoted their lives to science and mankind. Each school has chosen one genius from their country: Poland: Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Spain: María Blasco Marhuenda, Greece: Aristotle and Italy – Leonardo da Vinci. Project is divided into five parts: Let’s know each other and four parts connected with each genius: Magic Science, Amazing Biology, The omniscient of the ancient world , The Flash of Genius. Students study the outstanding people lives and achievements in innovative and interesting way using traditional modern learning methods, as they have to develop all key competences through this project.
The main actors in the project will be the children and their teachers. Children as a subject of learning, and teachers as mentors, friends who guide and support planning.The participating children in the project are between 7 and 13 years of age (primary school). Direct beneficients working on Twinspace in intenational groups are supposed to be about 40 from each school, so about 160 altogether. We hope for more beneficients taking part in many project activities run at school as we want to make interested in science as many students as possible in each school.
Children will be a major participant, who will be given the freedom to seek and discover, to create, to give ideas and to plan (as an element of a very basic social entrepreneurship). They will learn while going to meet challenges and deal with them. The experience will help them better deal with learning materials and the difficulties in life. Qualities such as confidence, self-esteem, the ability to work in a team, respect and tolerance are the foundation of good social competencies.
Our objectives are:
– to develop key competences (verified tasks will motivate students to develop all eight key competences in an interesting and easy way)
– to develop basic skills (letters exchange, videomeetings, meetings, ICT tools use)
– to motivate students and teachers for learning English online and in real life
– to increase teachers´ language skills
– to share ideas, methodology for teaching science, physics, chemistry, maths, history and English.
Important for us are these words: TOLERANCE, RESPECT, ACCEPTANCE.
There are also topics addressed by our project:
1. Creativity and culture: Every activity aims to develop students creativity, as this is extremely important to make students create new things, to invent useful items and solve different problems in a proper way. Students should be aware of cultural differences in European countries and the project will let them know the culture of participating schools countries and also their cultural and scientific heritage which enriches the whole world and we all use it today with respect.
2. The educational value of natural sciences will be reflected in our interactive lessons through ICT and openly integrated into the curriculum. Introducing such an approach to learning is a contribution to the teaching strategies that each teacher will be able to use through our site.
3.There’s no Erasmus+ project without international cooperation and international relations. Our students from the project beginning will work in international groups, first via Twinspace, online and then in real life during mobilities as we will have only students exchanges, because our cooperation focuses on students themselves. We want our students to learn how to cooperate in international groups and how to benefit from different approaches on different topics and problems. Only this way our students can be ready for successful life in European society. Spending time and solving problems with foreign peers is a priceless experience.
The expected project results are first of all students’ higher interest in science, their confidence in using English as a communication tool and better knowledge about European cultural heritage including mother tongues of participating schools. The expected outcomes are:
– project Twinspace
– project website
– ebook with tutorials of chemical experiments and with photos of chemical elements models
– ebook with tutorials of experiments and students’ inventions
– ebook with tutorials of physics experiments and logical games
– films about schools
– interviews with scientists
– screenplays and films about chosen scientists
– five-language dictionary with common everyday phrases and science vocabulary.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 103757 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa nr 9 im. Mikolaja Kopernika w Dzierzoniowie & Country: PL

Project Partners

• IC 47° Sarria Monti
• Primary School of Lakkoma
• CEIP Atenea