This project is one which revolves around Maths, Astronomy and modelling. We are calling it a STEAM project instead of STEM because we do want to be able to include an artistic element as well The project aim would be 1) To develop a challenging and exciting project which would heighten the profile and attractivemness of STEM to students from a wide range of abilities. 2) To generate links between our schools and communities with particular reference to creating resources for life long learning opportunities for members of our communities are not normally considered as being engaged in education. In preparation of this application we have already established links with U3A in some of the regions. This organisation is uniquely for older people, giving them the opportunity to meet and make new friends who share the same interests or lifestyle. But who also want to acquire knowledge of astronomy and enjoy sharing knowledge with others. The motivation is partially educationally but also about social cohesion, many of our schools are located in areas which are either very rural or where the facilities available are focussed on younger people. 3) To create self standing educational resources which can be used by organisations looking at educating children who are unable to access school. For example, young offenders institutes or hospitalised children. 4) The partners would work together to create a bank of open resources (videos, programme of study, music, art show drama play), 5) The project would have a definite aim of encouraging language fluency between partners, We woold be encouraging students to communicate in languages other than their own. 6) A social objective of this project would be to give our young people the opportunity to meet with their peers from across the continent of Europe and to recognise that despite the political landscape we currently live in, there are more similarities than differences between us. The resources would be created by our our students and the idea is that the best way of learning would be to teach. We would be aiming to produce paper/magazine based workbooks which would have sections on The historical study of Mathematicians, the links between art and science. Creation of instructions to make Platonic solids. The maths of the Ellipse and calculating Eccentricity and from that predicting planetary posiiton The Physical Nature of the Planets...Density Realtive size. The Astronmical Unit, composition of atmospheres. (spectroscopy) Atoms and Molecules, Periodic table Study of Mercury and Venus....Photos, arts, poetry Mars size composition The Space station In order to develop students' digital skills we would work together on producing a web site and a phone app, the latter output would gamify the content.
This project was one which revolved around Maths, Astronomy, ICT, Art and modelling. The project 1) Developed challenging and exciting activities which heightened the profile and attractivemness of STEM to students from a wide range of abilities. 2) Generated links between our schools and communities with particular reference to creating resources for life long learning opportunities for members of our communities not normally considered as being engaged in education. We presented simple astronomy sessions within U3A sessions via zoom. U3A is uniquely for older people, giving them the opportunity to meet and make new friends who share the same interests or lifestyle. Initially we planned to present the elementary astronomy work during face to face sessions but in the end we had to present these within a virtual context due to covid. When we planned the project we expressly planned to involve an element of cross generational activities and we feel we succeeded with this via the involvement both of U3A and junior schools. 3) We created self standing educational resources which can be used by other organisations to deliver a curriculum content in Astronomy. During the application process we expressly stated that we wanted to produce activities whose audience was young people unable to access school. We cited the example of young offenders institutes or hospitalised children. The focus on young offenders was impossible owing to restrictions on accessing computers within young offenders institutes, but applying virtual activities became the modus operandi of the project for almost 12 months. This was delivered by partners working collaboratively with organizations such as Astro Ventures, The National Schools observatory and the Baltic art Gallery our key resources were translated into Spanish, French, Italian 4) The partners worked together to create a bank of open resources (videos, programme of study, music, art show drama play ebooks), 5) The project had a definite aim of encouraging language fluency between partners, We encouraged students to communicate in languages other than their own. 6) A social objective of this project was to give our young people the opportunity to meet with their peers from across the continent of Europe and to recognise that despite the political landscape we currently live in, there are more similarities than differences between us. The resources were created by our students and the idea was that the best way of learning would be to teach. We produced paper/magazine based workbooks which had sections on The historical study of Mathematicians, the links between art and science. Creation of instructions to make Platonic solids. The maths of the Ellipse and calculating Eccentricity and from that predicting planetary posiiton The Physical Nature of the Planets...Density Realtive size. The Astronmical Unit, composition of atmospheres. (spectroscopy) Atoms and Molecules, Periodic table Study of Mercury and Venus....Photos, arts, poetry Mars size composition The Space station In order to develop students' digital skills we would work together on producing a web site and a phone app, the latter output would gamify the content.