LECLIC -”Living in the Era of Climate Change” is a two years international project which uses innovative trends of STE(A)M curriculum, Cloud computing and Competence Driving to raise students awareness on environmental issues and climate change. Students, teachers involved in the project will reflect on the need of a behavioral change in their families lifestyle to mitigate climate change through the analysis of: the bidirectional relationship between lifestyle and climate change, the analysis of the current lifestyles and the quality of life of their european region, and making proposals on how they can change their habits in a big way so as to improve the current and future lifestyle. The involved students and teachers will explore innovative STE(A)M curriculum, they will participate and create Virtual reality resources and they will use cloud computing (Google site, drive and eTwinning) for creating documents, presentations, fulfill assessments, communicate and share the information created. The pedagogical principles for STE(A)M curriculum integration will be the use of methodologies: process based learning, inquiring and collaboration. Different activities have been created for face-to-face and on-line work in international teams to emulate students and teachers participation in four LECLIC Climate Change conferences Results of those activities will be google drive cloud storage of documents, logo of the project as consequence of a contest between students of the four participating schools, poster and brochure with information of the aims of the LECLIC project, school participants and meeting, eTwinning TwinSpace with all the information and documents, teaching materials corresponding to STE(A)M activities (methodologies, worksheets and implementation documents), students presentations (of their school, educational system, city, country, climate change and lifestyle in their region), Videos or photos and written reports of the STE(A)M technical visits to business eco-friendly, research and bio-medical institutions, bilateral webinars for international interchange of ideas on climate change and lifestyle, film product of the short-term contest on how to mitigate climate change and LECLIC google site. Four Secondary junior schools will participate in the projects. The four schools are sited close to the sea, in cities or small towns where different effects of climate change are observed (such as floods, increase of temperature, increase of the salinity of the water). Teachers with different backgrounds (especially from STE(A)M) subjects) will ensure ethic, scientific and social achievement of the objectives. The teacher training will help them to configure their professional problems on designing, implementing an STE(A)M curriculum in the informal setting of the project meetings and increase their capabilities concerning how to integrate it in school curriculum. Equal opportunities will be given to the students (ages 12 to 16) considering their special needs, demotivation, gender and immigration condition. The project will benefit them from enlarging their knowledge on climate change causes and consequences and their lifestyle. Students will develop global competences on critical thinking on the causes and consequences of climate change, on creative thinking to analyze their lifestyle and undertaking actions that could change their behavior on how to mitigate climate change. Working on cooperative international teams will improve students’ English language skills and will increase their understanding of the daily life, culture and language of consortium countries. In the long term, the participation in the project will help students to continue their STE(A)M or vocational studies with a background of global competences that will promote a real inclusion in the workforce in the Era of Climate Change. For teachers, the participation in the project will benefit in increasing their Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge on STE(A)M subjects, climate change and developing English skills to use them in their everyday teaching and participating in other KA229 actions. Globally, the participation in the project will help schools to project the good practices that they develop and challenge other teachers and schools to innovate. For its sustaining, the project and spread it, the LECLIC google drive, eTwinning TwinSpace and School Gateway will provide other teachers, students and families with the materials to freely download and use it. The pedagogical and methodological principles of its use will be published in national and international conferences of good practices in the STE(A)M curriculum to help other teachers and schools on the use of these materials.
LECLIC -”Living in the Era of Climate Change” (KA229-2020-1-ES01-KA229 082206) is a two-year ERASMUS+ project with an extension of one year, which uses innovative trends of STE(A)M curriculum, Cloud computing, Virtual Reality and Competence Driving education and aims to raise students’ and teachers’ awareness on environmental issues and climate change. The project emerges from the need of the four participating schools to endorse the priorities established in the Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals on the field of education and climate change, recognising the different geographical and meteorological effects observed in the different countries, and with the aim of understanding the complexity of climate change through the analysis of its causes and consequences, the relationship with the lifestyle and quality of life of the families, and to recognize the need to undertake actions to mitigate it. 311 students aged 10 to 18 years old have participated in local activities and 146 students aged 11 to 16 years old in transnational activities designed and implemented under the principles of inclusivity and competency-driven approach. Students have benefited from the participation in the project by valuing the importance of undertaking collaborative actions at a European dimension to mitigate climate change, looking for the transference of these actions to a familiar level, acknowledging the importance of STEAM subjects, learning to continue their studies and initiating their vocations and enriching their oral and written expression in English. Twenty-four teachers with multidisciplinary backgrounds have participated in the peer-to-peer methodology of the teacher training events with the aim of designing, implementing and assessing local and transnational activities promoting their professional development through the integration of technological, pedagogical and STEAM knowledge on climate change. The local activities have been designed and implemented as an extension of the students’ curriculum on climate change and consisted in the design of the LECLIC logo, the research and preparation of presentations on the regions, towns and cities, schools, curriculum and causes and consequences of climate change in the regions, the style of life and quality of life of their countries. The transnational activities have been organised as four LECLIC Climate Change Conferences with the aim of analysing and comparing the causes and consequences of climate change, the relationship with the lifestyle and quality of life and actions to mitigate climate change in the four countries of the partner schools: Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. As a conclusion of all the research, analysis and comparison done, students have prepared short-films with a decalogue of actions to mitigate climate change, prepared virtual reality resources and games for an immersive understanding of climate change and designed a LECLIC guide on climate change, as an online presentation portfolio. The reflection about the process has enabled teachers to write a curricular proposal on STEAM education, on climate change including the theoretical and practical principles for a blend of methodologies (cloud computing, virtual, physical, curricular, extracurricular, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary) englobed in problem based learning, inquire learning and design engineering based on learning approaches and described in the worksheets, implementation and evaluation documents. The synergies created between the teachers of a broad range of subjects have assured the integration of STEAM subjects into the design, implementation and evaluation of those activities. The leading of the activities between the different schools have increased the synergies when designing, implementing and evaluating them. Colegio La Salle-Buen Consejo has been in charge of the Google Drive Storage, the Google Site (Webpage of the project) and the III LECLIC Conference on Climate Change; 14th Junior High School of Patras has designed the poster, lead the logo competition and the II LECLIC Conference; Scuola secondaria di I Grado Ciro Scianna has designed and implemented the eTwinning, TwinSpace, the Virtual LECLIC conference and the I LECLIC conference, and Agrupamento de Escolas Rio Novo do Principe-Cacia has designed the brochures, lead the short-film competition and the IV LECLIC conference. Synergies with local authorities, eco-friendly business, research institutions, council observatories and biotechnological institutes have been created with a common aim to help in mitigating climate change. The use of the Webpage of the project, the eTwinning twinspace, the ERASMUS+ Project Results Platform, the social media and networks will help the dissemination of the outputs of the project, ensuring the sustainability of the project and enlarging the community of students, teachers, researchers and policy-makers interested in STEAM education on climate change.