A cutting-edge outlook towards Science and PE Erasmus Project

Project Title

A cutting-edge outlook towards Science and PE

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Natural sciences; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Are our students competent enough when it comes to health and wellbeing management? The best way to develop key competences with an emphasis on health is through integrating subjects into real context. Science and PE are prone to be taught through project-based learning methods with the help of today’s cutting-edge technology to make the learning process more meaningful.

With regards to health issues, different countries across Europe have similar problems. While the Spanish and British have considerable levels of obesity and sedentarism among their pupils; the Danish, Estonian and Latvian have more difficulties with emotional and mental health management. In this project, we put together 5 schools of the countries which have been mentioned to reinforce, through intercultural exchanges, the health literacy of our teachers and students; and also to create materials which can be applied across Europe.

Therefore, the main objectives set for this projects are:
1) To allow students’ development of key competences, with an emphasis on health and wellbeing, through an European school network made of students, teachers and families.
2) To design 4 project-based innovative units to integrate the contents of Natural Science and Physical Education through the use of technology making those subjects more significant to students.
3) To promote the use of cutting-edge technology and open new ways of learning in the education field.

As expected results coming out of this project, students will improve their key competences level with special focus on health and science; enhance their ICT and linguistics skills; and increase their EU mobility. As for teachers, they will create ready-to-use materials for PE and Science; develop practical ideas to update the learning process to the digital era; and interchange methods and cooperative strategies across European schools.

The activities of this project will stem from 4 centers (human body, brain and emotions, fitness and nutrition) in which the subjects of Science and PE merge. Each center is associated with 2 key competences and is planned to be implemented in online eTwinning activities (>100 students of Year 5 and 6) and mobilities (small groups of 6 students in Year 5 and 6 per country and 2 teachers plus those in the host country where younger students aged 6-10 will be involved as well).

To achieve the 1st objective, we will elaborate activities that will be carried out in countries with expertise in each health topic; involve families so that the activities are more meaningful to students and also promote family health awareness; and use the eTwinning platform to create cultural exchanges during the 2 years of the project, promoting the lifelong learning necessary for the competence acquisition.

To achieve the 2nd objective, teachers will elaborate engaging project-based units integrating the PE and Science contents focused on 4 centers; students will complete our units giving us feedback during the mobilities, so that we can test the children’s response to our work and check potential differences depending on the country; teachers will have monthly online meetings to create the project-based units that will be later on implemented in each pupil mobility.

To achieve the 3rd objective, we will promote real-life contexts using a wide variety of apps/gadgets, e.g. augmented reality to learn about human body or smartwatches to extract health data; create products final products like “the project Youtube channel” to upload students’ videos coaching their families or an online healthy recipe book; improve teacher’s literacy on using technology. It is worth mentioning that an University professor will train the teachers during the training event for the staff; also, countries with expertise on the use of that technology will train the others with the activities they will set up in their countries.

As for the the profile of teachers, each country has set up a “project management team” comprised of PE, Science, Technology and Language teachers. At this stage, it is worth pointing out that the project is hosted on the eTwinning platform for management and online activities and the implementation and follow-up stage (ID: 220021).

Short and long-term outcomes of this project will benefit students, teachers and the wider education community. Students will have developed the skills to extend their healthy habits throughout their lives and take action when it comes to helping other people’s health management.On top of that. teachers will incorporate their CLIL project-based units to their PE and Science syllabus. Finally, we will launch a course through CASIOPEA platform (University of Murcia).

Prior to bringing to wrapping up the summary, we would like to highlight the long-term benefits of this project for children that will be the unique opportunity to have this international experience that will be embedded in their minds and will stand the test of time.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 157558 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP NTRA. SRA. DEL PASO & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Liepajas Centra sakumskola
• Far Forest Primary School
• Lasnamäe Gümnaasium
• TarupSkole