STEM for planet Earth

About this project

<p>Primary school Vladimir Nazor, Đakovo, with project STEM for Planet Earth aims to resolve the problem of insufficient level of STEM skills of target groups &nbsp;through bilateral cooperation with a partner organisation GeoCamp and association The Open Computer Workshop Association "We are all against" for technologically advanced 21st century society. Teaching skills of 9 teachers in STEM will be improved by participating in 11 training activities based on the developed school curriculum with STEM area included in order to transfer knowledge to 150 students, including 10 gifted pupils and 25 with disabilities which will participate in 14 activites. Adaptation and equipping of 2 STEM classrooms will ensure quality of education.</p>

Bilateral cooperation results

1. The project benefited from bilateral cooperation in such a way that we learned a lot from the Partner form Iceland. Numerous online meetings and workshops were held, where our colleagues form Iceland introduced us to their educational system, which is quite different from ours. The teachers who participated in the implementation of the project were on a study trip to Iceland where they saw firsthand how the educational system works in Iceland, they learned new teaching methods, new approaches to students and new forms of work and how to include STEM in teaching processes as much as possible. 2. As main results of bilateral cooperation, we can highlight new knowledge and skills acquired through the implementation of the project. The Partner gave us many ideas on how to improve the educational process and we also learned some new learning methods, which we applied in the teaching process. The exchange of experiences was priceless for teachers (through a trip to Iceland, a partner's visit to our school, many interesting and instructive trainings and workshops) and students (together with their colleagues for Iceland, participated in the preparation and implementation of the project tasks and in this way they learned about diversity, understanding and a different educational system). All of the above enabled teachers and students to meet new colleagues, a new culture, new ways of teaching that are different than ours. 3. Through this project, teachers and students have made wonderful friends with whom they will definitely try to cooperate as much as possible in the future and potentially get involved in additional joint projects.

Project partners

• Geocamp Iceland ehf Donor project partner· Iceland
• The Open Computer Workshop Association "We are all against" Project partner· Croatia