Students Observers Learn Astronomy And Run to Travel to Space Erasmus Project

Project Title

Students Observers Learn Astronomy And Run to Travel to Space

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The project´s main objective is to apply project-based learning to the educational field, using ludic activities to learn. It’s a perfect cooperative tool which will allow us to bring STEM closer to our students. An active and creative STEM learning facilitates the students incorporation to the labour market, as it helps our students to make decisions, solve problems and fosters their creativity. In addition, the student’s communicative and digital competence are essential as it is a cooperative transnational project. It also improves the cooperative ability and promotes respect towards other people. All the activities expect to promote the Intereuropean dialogue and the knowledge of other languages and also promote the introduction of cooperative learning elements between nations.
The main concern of all the partners is to innovate in the STEM teaching methods in order to contribute to strengthen our students entrepreneur spirit.

By choosing the specific theme of Astronomy, we will thus scan the different fields of STEM studies, incorporating transdisciplinarity. Thus, a wide range of different subjects will take part in this project: Sciences, Maths, Technology, English, Arts, History, Music, PE,… The participation of primary school teachers in the project will also enable us to carry out the inter-cycle link.

The common thread of the project will be the creation of a sundial in the schools, or if possible in the city of the partners. The result of the project will thus be available to a varied audience: pupils, teachers, parents and the entire local population. We will create a social link between the different actors of the project.

In addition to the creation of the sundial, our students will work on other activities, such as the creation of a 3D model of constellations, representation of the surface of the Moon, quizzes, “Padlets” and interactive maps on the System Solar, poems and even musical performances on Space,…
Students will create a virtual world around Space and use “Future Classroom”, using digital tools such as “CoSpace” from Lab21.0.

The second main objective of the project will be to establish an inter-cycle link between kindergarten, primary and secondary schools. The little ones will present their vision of Space and then participate in the activities created for them by the older ones.
Tutoring will be set up between young and old, which will enhance the work done and allow students to increase their self-esteem.

The students will be the most favoured ones, as innovation and creativity in the methodology will contribute to improve STEM teaching. Participating in this project will also improve our students’ digital and linguistic competence, as they will communicate and work together on different activities.
Teachers will also receive a positive benefit from it, as it will affect directly the methodology in STEM lessons as well as interdisciplinary work. Access to different educational resources, new technological tools and interdisciplinarity will lead to a profound change in the way we understand the teaching of STEM.

Mobilities and communication among students, teachers and educational community are a fundamental part in a multilateral project like this, and it will not only contribute to improve linguistic competence but also to acquire a new way of understanding Europe and the society in general. Its impact will affect all families involved and the whole educational community.
The project will be disseminated online: schools’ websites, eTwinning and different social networks. Parents, students and educational community will be able to access all information via these publications or through informative meetings, to which other schools in the area and education actors will be invited.

European citizenship, teaching of foreign languages and new methodologies that will favour the development of basic competences, new technologies… All these things are necessary nowadays for a student to become a successful professional in the future. We want all this to be a hallmark of our schools.

Finally, we hope that during this project on the theme of Astronomy, our « Students Observers Learn Astronomy And Run to Travel to Space » !

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164988 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLLEGE VINCENT BADIE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Paidos
• IC centro storico Moncalieri
• RHIZO1
• OS Kosta Trifkovic