SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT
Our main objective of this
project is to make our students aware that we can do something to make things
change, at least in our immediate surroundings. We will work on the concept of
waste and how “less” means “more”, that is, less consumption means more life. We will
design a humble road map for people in their everyday life in terms of
consumption. We are going to deal with the topic based on STEAM ( Sciences,
Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths) education design principles, that is,
through STEAM workshops we will analyze different types of waste: water waste,
food waste, cloth waste, time waste, and energy waste. With this project, we
will make our students improve the quality of STEAM applications in the light
of shared experiences by observing practices in their natural environment.
Moreover, their knowledge of the foreign language and ICT tools will be also
highlighted and we will improve essential values among citizens such as the
concept of saving (saving energy, saving water, saving cloth, saving time)
because less can mean more. STEAM represents a different model from traditional
philosophy, based on standardized test scores, to a modern ideal which gives
importance to the learning process as much as the results. Basically, in STEAM
education, model students dare to be wrong, try multiple ideas, listen to
alternate opinions
and create a knowledge base that is applicable to real life as opposed to
simply an exam. We will promote collaborative and integrated learning as well
as autonomy and self and peer evaluation. We will make students aware how
through STEAM subjects we can solve daily problems and improve our way of
living. Working transnationally will enable us to see all the topics from a
wide range of points of view, and learn to work in collaboration with other
people. As the language of communication will be English, we will increase
competence in a foreign language. Using apps, TwinSpace, ICT tools we will
enhance ICT-based methodologies, so students as well as, teachers will be
mainly working through ICT collaborative tools, such as prezis, triciders,
apps, padlets,canvas, picktochart, google docs and other apps that can be
shared by different people and enable us to work in a collaborative way. We
also want to use more innovative teaching methods: the Project will be
student-centered and problem-based active learning, using multidisciplinary and
interdisciplinary approaches and through fostering critical thinking skills. We
want our students to be
responsible citizens making them aware that little changes together can
become big changes, that is, working together we can make things change.
Working on the topic of waste we are building up concepts such as recycling,
reusing and reducing, so we are collaborating in the improvement of our
environment. We will also be working on energy and resources and see that if we
waste them it can mean the disappearance of life on our planet. Therefore,
following STEAM methodology, based on scientific research, making rigorous
statistics studies, creating technological apps, constructing simple machines,
such as one to make compost or a water-waste plant, and integrating art
compositions such as posters and leaflets to inform the rest of the community,
we will engage students to make little changes in their lifestyle to be able to
make big changes in the life of our planet. Short-term teachers meeting at the
beginning of the project will enable teachers to know more about the STEAM
methodology to be able to transfer it to the students and deal with the topic
in an innovative way. In the short-term students' meetings, students and
teachers will be able to see the
practical side of the project, so during the previous months of the
mobility they will be dealing with the most theoretical side and in the
mobilities, they will do the practical one. In the mobilities, they will also
evaluate the project and give feedback to it.
1. ISTANBUL – STEAM WORKSHOPS – NOVEMBER 2019
2. PORTUGAL - TIME WASTE - MARCH
2020
3. POLAND- FOOD WASTE - MAY 2020
4. SLOVENIA- CLOTH WASTE - OCTOBER 2020
5. ROMANIA – ENERGY WASTE - FEBRUARY 2021
6. İSPANYA – WATER WASTE - MAY 2021
Dissemination of the project
will always be guaranteed distributing booklets at the end
of each moblility about how to reduce a concrete waste and inviting the
different local media to the open workshops and presentations. A summative
evaluation will be carried out along the whole project, having pre during and
post evaluation of the different aspects of the project ( tasks,
implementation, time-table, participants, results) and from the different
points of view ( students', teachers' and parents').
The project sustainability will
be achieved through the results: the ecological garden in each school with its
own compost machine, the waterwaste plant in each school, the different
booklets on how to reduce the different waste types studied, the posters, wikis
etc.
To sum up, thanks to
this project students will be able to appreciate more the importance of STEAM subjects
in their learning process, so they can deal with daily problems such as the
concept of "waste" and help to improve the environment and become
better citizens.
