UNION OF SOLAR SYSTEM VIA GEOGEBRA Erasmus Project

Project Title

UNION OF SOLAR SYSTEM VIA GEOGEBRA

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

In our project, the 3D movements of the pupils’ planets on the Solar System and the great satellites of some planets have been monitored , and the simulation of these movements with the Geogebra program has been created.
The aim of the project is to introduce and implement students’ joint work of the disciplines of mathematics-astronomy-physics-information technology. Interaction between cultures, whic havel been added to the interdisciplinary collaboration, has been to support students in their social development as well as developments to be gained in positive sciences.
With the simulation to be created, students have studied the elliptical orbits that they see in the books, floating in the same plane, are actually formed from different inclinations, and that the mathematical equations about the construction of these orbits are to be understood by the students.
When the project was completed, students were asked whether they understand the distance and magnitude of the planets in the Solar System, the proportional modeling of these magnitudes, the arrival of planets at the same level, and the periodic cycles of formation with elliptical orbits.

During the construction of the simulation, students have gained achievements about mathematical structures as well as the development of the use of the Geogebra program which is a virtual mathematics laboratory.
During the meetings that have been held in the countries;
In Turkey:
-Proportional modeling of the distances between the planets in the solar system has been completed.
-Proportional modeling of the sizes of the planets in the solar system has been completed.
In Italy:
-Edited a study on conics, focusing on the ellipse (using a geogebra worksheet)
– A study was carried out in the laboratory on primitive substances in the solar system.
-By using VR glasses, the features of the planets have been observed in conjunction with the virtual images of the planets
In the Czech Republic:
-Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the mobility in Czech Republic had to be cancelled as a force majeure
In Portugal:
–A planetarium to be made in the school has been shown with team stars and narratives about myths and mythologies belonging to these stars have been realized.
-Workshop: Artistic installation of the Solar System
Information on the polar star, the use of the sun and its orbit has been given.
-The simulation of the satellites of the planets and astronomical observing session has been organised has been completed.

In Finland
Students have visited cultural heritage in Helsinki, Heureka science center, planetarium and observatory. They visited the science lab in Aalto university where the scientists have told about their research work. Students have analyzed the Geogebra products, they had two workshops on Geogebra. They made information clips about planets using Green Screen. They evaluated the mobility.Geogebra training was given to the students by the Geogebra Finland coordinator.

In Turkey, pupils’ short term exchanges of groups of pupils have turned into staff short term joint staff training events owing to the pandemic reasons. The simulatıon of Geogebra that had to be completed in Czech Republic and Turkey Mobilities have been completed in Turkey by the project-partner instructors. In order to make the project widespread more, the convenient websites have been designed and the worksheets, articles and simulation files of this project (www.solarsystemingeogebra.com) have been saved on this website. In this website, there are several languages which belong to different countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 117495,68 Eur

Project Coordinator

OZEL PEV AMIROGLU FEN LISESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Istituto Tecnico Industriale Liceo Scienze Applicate Majorana
• Munkkiniemen yhteiskoulu
• Obchodni akademie a Jazykova skola s pravem statni jazykove zkousky
• Agrupamento de Escolas Dra Laura Ayres