Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 22
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We did not focus only on the “normal” geometry
taught in primary schools. We had also a glimpse at
the 4 colour theorem, when drawing and colouring
shape-pictures with paint.net.
Children loved to create the Möbius strip and got a
first feeling of Topology (short explained as the
study of shapes).
All partners searched and photographed shapes and
bodies in daily life and made amazing videos, not
only showing shapes but also the living
environment of the partners.
We shared ideas and knowledge for example the
Hungarian pupils created their own shape board
games.
But we created a multilingual audiovisual booklet
with some “shape words” too.
Pupils were really motivated to learn the
geometrical vocabulary in all languages. Could you
imagine that “die Kugel”, “gömb”, “sfera”,
“küremean” have all the same meaning?
Let us solve: it means sphere.
We teachers are sure that this project helped our
kids enormously to get a fundamental knowledge of
geometry and creative thinking. The international
team work helped us teachers to improve our
teaching skills as well.
Patrizia from Rome drew our attention to the video
“Donald in Mathmagic Land”, which is available on
YouTube in different languages.
We taught our partners how to fold a Tetrahedron
from a sheet of paper.
Scientix and eTwinning
http://www.scientix.eu
Originally an initiative of the European Commission,
Scientix is managed by European Schoolnet (EUN)
under the European Union’s 7thFramework
Programme. EUN is a consortium of 30 Ministries of
Education in Europe. Scientix promotes and
supports a Europe-wide collaboration among STEM
teachers, education researchers, policymakers and
other STEM education professionals.
But how can Scientix help you to start / get ideas or
even carry out a STEM related eTwinning project?
Have a look on some possibilities teachers are
provided by Scientix. Teachers can
•
browse through the Scientix resources
repository and find inspiration
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