Picture provided by the author, attribution CC-BY Thinking about how to make mathematics interesting for children and how to prompt and encourage them to independently research, search and “dig” new information on Internet, I decided to start a new project at the school level: “History of Mathematics”. I remembered the subject holding the same name at my university, which, in the multitude of lectures and exercises, was a real refresher for us mathematics students. The project started last school year (2021/2022) during the time when the Covid-19 sanitary measures were in force. Our schoo ..read more

Picture provided by the author, attribution CC-BY The project Measure me up! Is an Erasmus+ Project designed by six partners: Os Vladimira Becica Osijek (Croatia),  Nikola Tesla Szerb Tanítási Nyelvu Óvoda, Általános Iskola, Gimnázium, Kollégium és Könyvtár (Hungary), Osnovna skola Sveti Sava Kikinda (Serbia), IES Santísima Trinidad (Spain) and Özel Marmaris Çağdaş Bilim Anadolu ve Fen Lisesi (Turkey). It started in 2020 and will finish in 2023. Our vision and goals In the near future professionals with a high profile on science, technology, engineering and mathematics will experiment a h ..read more

Picture provided by the author, attribution CC-BY The idea STEAM education is a crucial topic for next generations. The European Commission suggests to improve STEAM education for an early age of students. We know children are curios and have a natural disposition to Science but later sometimes they lose this interest. I am a secondary Maths and Science teacher and I decided to promote Science in a different way. I asked to the municipality of my village the possibility to use the local public library and I organized two events for children between 5 and 8 years old. I choose Saturday morning ..read more

Picture provided by the author, attribution CC-BY In this blog post, Rukiye Akyol talks about an eTwinning project in which she participated with eighteen teachers from five countries (Turkey, Malta, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, North Macedonia). The aim of the project was to learn about animals and environmental issues through STEM. The project touched on three main themes: animals living on land, animals living in the water and animals that can fly. Teachers formed teams for each topic and prepared lesson plans together. For the first theme, land-dwelling animals, the question we addressed wa ..read more

How do we know when a child is gifted? This topic is quite complex. Many studies have been published about this. For Treman in 1925 the main criterion in order to evaluate whether the child is gifted was the level of intelligence. Later in 1972, Marland referred to multiple criteria in his report (Clark, 1997; Davaslıgil, 1990). According to the report, gifted and talented children are those identified by professionally qualified persons who by virtue of outstanding abilities are capable of high performance. Çağlar (1986), following the definition proposed by the U.S. Office of Education in 19 ..read more

Turkish teachers have been using the “sentence-based sound teaching method” to teach reading and writing since few years now. This method allows teachers to get familiar with new techniques and find a better approach to each of their students. It enables teachers to show students how meaningful the sound is by singing songs, telling stories, tales or riddles. This improves students’ literacy level and develops their reading comprehension skills. This way students activate all their senses. They compare sounds by analyzing how they are produced. To understand the nature of sounds, the ..read more

Students’ perception is one of the most important nuances in primary school. Perception occurs with the activity of developing students. The task and the environment need to be expanded and developed along with the information they obtain. It is recommended that the STEM method, which has been popular in recent years, be taught at an early age. It is necessary to make innovations that will have added value. Therefore, the STEM method should be fully introduced. Keywords: elementary school, STEM, STEM method About STEM STEM is derived from the abbreviation of the capital letters of the words Sc ..read more

What is Scientia? Scientia – Abbi il coraggio di conoscere (Sapere aude) is a science communication project that encompasses multidisciplinary topics. Founded on October 1, 2020, its main objective is to engage students in the preparation of social media content (Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok). Scientia content consists of mini-lessons on biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics to intrigue and support the study of such subjects. They are short and dynamic, but at the same time clear and precise. They consist of simple and intriguing experiments done by students at home. It can help students ..read more

Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 25 September 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations Education 2030 Framework Action, is coordinated by the UNESCO Education Agency and aims to “provide equal and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.” UNESCO’s report “Redesigning our future together: a new social contract for education” states that we need renewed and more effective approaches to help students improve their ability to adapt and mitigate climate change, therefore education itself to shape fair and sustainable futures. T ..read more

Introduction The project Food Defenders: Make the Waste to Worth the Taste, was designed and applied during the school year 2021-2022. In this project, four Kindergartens from Greece, nine teachers and 109 children participated. The mascot of the programme Foxie Planet invited students to adopt new attitudes towards food waste reduction. The accumulation of large amounts of waste in the classroom bin during lunch motivated children to search for solutions regarding the rational use of these resources and their recycling. The combination of environmental and STEAM education cultivates skills re ..read more