Natural sciences are mainly experimental fields and their study in the class must include experimental work combined with theoretical study.
These are enriching the students' knowledge, their appetite is opened for searching the answers to different questions they have about their life and the environment. A comparison of the curriculum of the partner schools was a source of information for the participants giving an idea about the experiments which are conducted at the Chemistry, Physics and Biology lessons. Some of them are applied by all schools, others are done only by some partners but they could be applicable for all. During the partnership we were identifying the experiments done in the schools making a list of them for each subject. Every school has chosen some of the experiments from the list presenting them in a special layout as a standard sheet containing description, aims and data interpretation using ICT. The selected experiments are reunited in a booklet containing both English and national language versions; enriching the school with a learning tool thus enhancing the quality of the teaching in the field of exact sciences. This gave us the opportunity to cooperate in Comenius projects in the field of natural sciences enhancing thus the participation in this area. The name of the project is Science by Experiments through European Dialog and during three years we saw a SEED growing in order to become a fruit of the partnership.
Aims and impact concerning students:
Better knowledge of sciences and of the way an experiment is conducted and interpreted through the created material during the years.
ICT skills development by creating models of experimental sheets (html or other web supported presentations sheets), information sessions on internet and by working on the final products (CDROM and webpage conception, elaboration and assembly).
Enrichment in the domain of foreign languages (English) by working out the experimental sheets.
Development of the aesthetic sense in presentations elaboration in order to make a quality material for the envisaged book.
Aims and impact concerning teachers:
Better knowledge of the European sciences curriculum by comparing it during the meetings and working together with colleagues from foreign countries on the joint material.
Wider applicability of the experimental methods in the school at the natural sciences lessons by including experiments from other schools.
Improvement of English as communication and information tool by using email communication and research on Internet for new applicable experimental methods.
ICT skills development by communicating via internet, creating webpage and html files, research on Internet
Aims and impact concerning the school:
Elaboration of a new teaching tool which can be developed and used in the future.
Ensuring a new European dimension of the school's activities.
A better place for the school in the educational market through international partnerships.
Schools :
COLEGIUL NATIONAL "SIMION BARNUTIU", coordinator, Romania
HTL Dornbirn, Austria
LP "La Closerie", France\
LICEO SOCIO PSICO PEDAGOGICO E LINGUISTICO “D. DOLCI”, Italy
Christelijke Scholengemeenschap Comenius College, Netherlands
Colegiul Tehnic "Iuliu Maniu", Romania
Ekpedeftiria Vassiliadi, Greece