Prenosná vodná elektráreň Erasmus Project

Project Title

Prenosná vodná elektráreň

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Natural sciences; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

In this bilateral project named „Portable hydroelectric power station“ we would like to support the scientific literacy of the students of comprehensive schools in the Slovak Republic and Lithuania.In this project Slovak school -Gymnazium of Ludovit Stur in Zvolen /the type of the secondary grammar school/ undertook the responsibility of the coordinator.As we can see the students´ lowering and long-lasting interest in Physics, Math and other scientific subjects,we have decided to aim our attention at the really interesting teaching method of the listed subjects–to use so-called the teaching via research work.The research activities and independent work of the students were according to us the best base how we could increase the students´ interest in Physics.Teachers tried to introduce students the principle of the research work, teach them how to analyze the results of their work and make conclusions.In this project 12 students of each school were included, their activities were coordinated by two school coordinators–the teacher of German and the teacher of Physics.During the project partners were exchanging information,experience,observation results and results of their whole work using e-Twinning.On this platform it can be found the whole elaborated project including the schedule of various activities.Introductory part of this project contains the introduction and short presentations–introducing schools, towns and countries.Then work started in national teams working on the first project phase–the period of the looking for physical laws in the connection with the practical life.There were 3 chosen laws,a team of 4 students from each country and then every team prepared demonstrational experiments,describing the origin of the law, its history and explained the law mathematically and verbally.Later students prepared the collection of tasks of the law mentioned before together with the sample of its solution.All prepared documents with demostrational experiments were presented by the students of the schools at their first meeting which took place in Slovakia in March 2018.During this meeting the students were trying to solve tasks of the different physical laws prepared in advance by the students of the partner school.The solutions of the tasks were presented and checked by the school which prepared those tasks.The second phase was typical for the research work–all their attention was paid to the research with the aim of the construction´s improvement of that station.Students gained lots of information about the ways of the electricity production in their own countries, about the influence on the environment,they described the advantages and disadvantages of these ways of production.They familiarized with the alternative ways of the production using the renewable sources.All information were subsequently used for the presentation.On the basis of the worksheet students made the prototype which was tested during the second short-term meeting in Lithuania and this testing was done on the river.This meeting took place in June 2018.It is important to remark that the worksheet mentioned before posed only a little aid of the prototype making.The successiveness of the construction was based only on their own procedures,techniques and their own solutions of the possible problems.Models of both teams were compared,differences were explained and their conclusions were deduced.All conclusions are introduced in the Physical handbook.Prepared models will serve as the teaching materials for Physics teachers.In the course of the project students were improving their German language skills,they learned how to work in a team,take the responsibility for their partial tasks and meet the deadlines.Both schools were able to compare their ways of teaching and the support of the scientific subjects.Teachers as well as students were able to acquaint themselves with the way of the research work and those experiences were submited their schoolmates at Physics lessons and their colleagues during their work and committee meetings.
The final product is the Physical handbook which contains apart from the physical laws following chapters-the description of the influence of the electricity production on the environment,the results of all laboratory measurements,working practises in the constructions of the portable hydroelectric power plant´s model and the visual documentation of the team work, conferences and meetings.The Physical handbook is put at teachers´ disposal and also is opened to the public on the websites of the schools and the e-Twinning projects.The functional models of the power plants can serve as the teaching material together with the research document and the recommendation of the using the alternative sources of electricity. Individual physical laws tackled in details by the students are included in the curriculum of the schools and also the laws are the part of the subject matter of the various grades.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 19020 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gymnazium Ludovita Stura & Country: SK

Project Partners

• Kauno r. Akademijos Ugnes Karvelis gimnazija