LET’S GET TOGETHER AND PLAY PHYSICS Erasmus Project

Project Title

LET’S GET TOGETHER AND PLAY PHYSICS

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

In this cooperation there were 6 countries. In the participating countries the popularity of Physics subject has been reduced. At the same time the development of technology is speeded up, so there is a strong need for having experts on Physics. It is necessary to raise the efficiency of teaching Physics by informing teachers, by introducing new teaching methods and scientific results to resolve this contradiction. So our key issue was to develop the abilities and skills that facilitate our students to succeed in the future in a knowledge-based society.
Some national and European surveys also evidenced that students are not motivated enough in studying Physics and Chemistry. In the beginning of scientific experiences little children have instinctive curiosity and desire for knowledge. During their school studies this curiosity is somehow repressed.

During the meetings students met other students from the schools of partner institutions. They were enthusiastic to make new friends, to host the guests or to travel abroad. Host students and their parents did their best to make the guests’ stay memorable. Involved students wanted to fascinate the audience with their scientific knowledge, so they were motivated to practice the experiments. We wanted our students to have fun in exploring the regularities. Our goal was to develop their basic skills, too. We also improved our students’ performance by using effective learning methods.
1. Young Researchers’ Night (all the partners in October)
2. Mini-museum (exhibition of old experimental devices in each country)
3. Project corner
4. Project logo (all of the partners should prepare 5 logo designs for the first meeting)
5. Portrait gallery of scientists (all partners indroduce 3 well-known scientists of their own country)
6. e-Book: a collection about the scientists who were shown in Portrait gallery
7. Introduction of successful young scientists (eg. young scientists in Cern)
8. Spectacular experiments with home-made devices (each partner prepares 5 different experiments and shows them to the other partners during the meetings)
9. Motto/slogan of the project, of the cooperation (during the first meeting)
10. Video presentations about the experiments on the website
11. eMagazine (reports on the activities at the end of the first and second year of the partnership)
12. Art competition (digital exhibition of drawings about favourite experiments, natural phenomena on the common website)
13. Collection of crosswords, puzzles and mind-breakers in English (on the website)
14. Research centers in the partner countries (presentations in English: on the website and in the eBook.
15. Physics on Stage (students’ experiments during 2 meetings)
16. Science Festival in Arad (experiments of students from Arad, Romania)
17. Day of Physics (at the same time in April in every country, video conference)
18. ’Let’s measure the length of the equator of the Earth!’ (based on Eratosthenes’s theory)
During the project we provided opportunity for everyone to join in the activities. Project tasks involved a wide variety of different activities. Students with special needs or in disadvantaged situation were also involved in the project work. Pupils with special needs and slower children also could succeed. Scientific work was the basis. However, organising the mini-museum, planning and drawing the logo and natural phenomena, working on project corner, taking photos, videos, prettifying and getting school buildings ready to have foreign visitors etc. all gave excellent opportunity for everyone from the age of 7 to 14 to take part in this project. We can boldly declare that success positively influenced on their self-confidence and self-evaluation. Looking for and finding interesting experiments and creating the necessary devices and even learning English words and expressions for the experiments became a joyous action for them, too. This modern form of work gave students opportunity for informal studying and for cooperation. This project also aimed to develop cooperation with parents and other schools. Partners to cooperate with were found on eTwinning portal. Polish, Slovakian, Italian, Romanian, Turkish and Hungarian schools took part in this project. In the ELT (Erasmus Leadership Team) of each school there were Physics teachers and English teachers. Local coordinators and the project coordinator were responsible for the implementation and for meeting the deadlines. Partners found good practises (teaching methods, motivation, decorations, conflict management, education principles etc.) and implemented them in their own schools. Cultural diversity provided various, multifarious teaching methods. Partners could increase their efficiency by gaining experiences. Meetings and workshops intensified the relationship and the cooperation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 123750 Eur

Project Coordinator

Üllés, Forráskút, Csólyospálos Községi Általános Iskola és Alapfokú Müvészeti Iskola Fontos Sándor Tagintézménye & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Zakladna skola s materskou skolou
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA “AUREL VLAICU” ARAD
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE
• KARSIYAKA TURKBIRLIGI ILKOKULU
• Zespol Szkol Ogolnoksztalcacych nr 16, Gimnazjum nr 16