Teaching STEM and STEAM together

project number: 2023-2-BG01-KA210-SCH-000178566

The project is under Erasmus+ Programme,  KA210-SCH - Small-scale partnerships in school education

Project Start Date: 01/01/2024

Project End Date:  31/08/2024

Grant Awarded: 30,000 euros

The main goal of the project is to foster innovation within the classroom by using STEAM activities that introduce new approaches to teaching and learning methods while motivating and integrating kids into the future of technology.

Specific Objectives:  

1. Develop innovative STEAM activities able to create an exciting and inclusive environment in the classrooms.

2. Implement these activities in the classroom.

3. Share teaching experience in the field of STEM/STEAM teaching on an international level and create collaborative

teaching environment

4. Analyse the impact of these learning activities across participating countries, considering the teachers’ effectiveness and motivation and the impact on students in terms of soft skills-building and motivation towards STEAM activities.

This 6-months project is a project to help teachers from participating schools from both countries to share the knowledge and skills related to curriculum based on STEAM activities and project-based learning methods. Both schools have some experience in participating in previous STEM-related projects, mainly through attending structured courses on STEM teaching and receiving ready-made STEM kits. The idea is to put knowledge into practice by designing own STEM and STEAM activities and implement them with students from both countries.

Regarding the priorities, STEAM activities have been proved to help kids develop soft skills which enable them to have a better performance in schools and reduce early abandonment. This project aims to focus on the future, on inspiring and building confidence in kids while developing their soft skills, fostering their creativity and critical thinking. Given a chance to design STEM/STEAM activities on their own, teachers were able to adapt these activities to the target groups of their students. Therefore, these activities best matched students’ learning abilities, skills and expectations. Teachers themselves improved their teaching skills through the process of discussing, designing, implementing and analyzing the activities in an international classroom environment