Take Eco Action with STEAM

Our objectives were: To develop teachers' integrated teaching skills on STEAM subjects by raising their awareness on the interdisciplinary relationships To integrate ecology, environment protectio...

Our objectives were: To develop teachers' integrated teaching skills on STEAM subjects by raising their awareness on the interdisciplinary relationships To integrate ecology, environment protection, climate change in STEAM fields To prepare and present platform/ tool of material on EcoSTEAM To strengthen the schools’ EcoSTEAM curriculum presenting a guidances for EcoSTEAM To strengthen teachers’ skills and competences in digitality, communication, teamwork, use of foreign language, problem-solving, use of ICT, distance teaching by encouraging them to be more open-minded and feeling themselves as part of the EU. To enable teachers to work in a mutual exchange with partner school teachers to gain new ideas, insights, theories and methods across Europe To engage students in EcoSTEAM activities to develop their skills of creativity, critical thinking, collaborative problem solving, learning to learn and initiative and entrepreneurial competences To encourage students to be involved in Experiential Learning, Discovery learning, Inquiry based learning and Project based learning with various STEAM activities developing ideas of ecology, to work and collaborate with their schoolmates in local and online workshops

All activities which help to reach the objectives of EcoSTEAM project were described in timetable: 1.20 online meetings between partnership institutions. 2. EcoSTEAM clubs establishment; forming project's implementation team in every institution; budget management groups in each institutiton (accounter+ coordinator) 3. Creating the links of project in schools' websites. 4. eTwinning project designing and management 5. Social media accounts https://www.instagram.com/ecosteamproject?igsh=MTd1YW56cXM4d2lnMA== https://www.facebook.com/EcoSteamEu?mibextid=PtKPJ9 6. Project's website https://eco-steam.weebly.com/ 7. an EcoSTEAM materials platform https://ecosteamedu.com/ 8. 5 virtual workshops for students and educators after each LTTA. 9. Activities, lessons for students in EcoSTEM fields after trainings and virtual workshops. 10. Materials' preparation for the platform; promoting of this final projec't output in local/ national/international level. 11. More than 170 dissemination activities: in all choosen dissemination channels, Earth days, eTwinning days, Europe days, Erasmus days, events during two project implementation years, exhibitions after ART training;open days at schools; Erasmus corners; conferences...

5 EcoSTEAM virtual workshops for more than 400 students. 5 EcoSTEAM clubs in the institutions 5 International learning/ teaching/training activities on EcoSTEAM for almost 100 teachers An EcoSTEAM material Platform https://ecosteamedu.com/ Guiding Principles for long term EcoSTEAM education included in the material platform Project website https://eco-steam.weebly.com/ Social media accounts https://www.instagram.com/ecosteamproject?igsh=MTd1YW56cXM4d2lnMA== https://www.facebook.com/EcoSteamEu?mibextid=PtKPJ9 Dissemination activities https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12pULKD5sv1FTluGL6XM2LJJsvD1D1tj8/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100116800162997458995&rtpof=true&sd=true International online conference “EcoSTEAM Unveiled: Nurturing Sustainability through STEAM Education” December 7th, 2024 Project-based activities helped our students improve their skills of creativity, critical thinking, teamwork, collaborative problem solving and risk taking. Our project’s EcoSTEAM activities drove curiosity and foster a love of learning followed by understanding of concepts