Introducing yourself: maching faces in Voki
Voki is a free online service that lets you create customized speaking characters. In the first step of our project we used Voki to create speaking avatars of students. The avatars tell about themselves and so students can know each other.
Laboratory reports Lab reports are an essential part of all scientific laboratory courses and usually a significant part of students' grades. A lab report is how students explain what they did in experiments, what they learned, and what the results meant. A good lab report template contains the following steps: title, introduction, objective, materials, diagram, procedure, data and results, observations and discussion, conclusion.
Speaking science with pictures: we share the same procedure! Experiments 1. Energy and changes in states. 2. Heat of solution. 3. Scaling a thermometer using Celsius scale. 4. Heat transfer: convection in liquids. 5. Ballons get inflated.
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A nice way to write a lab report, by Belgian students, about the scaling of a thermometer
1AIT - ISIS Galilei - Gorizia
eTwinning: the community for school in Europe
eTwinning offers a platform for staff (teachers, head teachers, librarians, etc.), working in a school in one of the European countries involved, to communicate, collaborate, develop projects, share and, in short, feel and be part of the most exciting learning community in Europe. The eTwinning action promotes school collaboration in Europe through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by providing support, tools and services for schools. Launched in 2005 as the main action of the European Commission’s eLearning Programme, eTwinning has been firmly integrated in Erasmus+, the European programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sport, since 2014.
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Our project
Students
We worked with 14 and 15 year old students who shared the same interest in physics and chemistry. Every time a lab was made, students took pictures and sent them to the other classes. The students needed to write the lab report made by the other class! With the project, we hope to show the kids that speaking science is universal. Everywhere in the world, scientists make the same experiments and record their observations in the same way. We hope to show our kids that what they learned in school can be fun, that their experiments can teach something to other students too. We also hope they will develop some interest in photography and in correcting the lab reports of the other kids. It will show them some part of science that is not included in their curriculum but that can be interesting too.
students from Tamines, Belgium
Teachers
students from Nafpaktos, Greece
Caroline Castille, Belgium [founder]
Eleftheria Tzelati, Greece
Alessandra Scattarregia, Italy [founder]
Angeles Llorente, Spain
students from Gorizia, Italy
students from Terrassa, Spain