ROMANIA – STEAM TEAM
Pupil: Sofia Eliza Păcurari, class VIIth D
Teacher: Luminița Precup
Robotics – combination between
Informatics and Physics
DISCIPLINARY AREAS
☐ Sciences
☐ Arts
☐ Mathematics
Classes
5 - 6
Objectives
IN THIS LESSON, IT IS INTENDED THAT THE STUDENT(S) WILL LEARN THE FOLLOWING:
C O N T E X T U A L I Z A TION
In primary and secondary school computer science and ICT classes, teachers try to make lessons as engaging and challenging as possible to show students the beauty of the subject. There is a wide variety of age-appropriate educational programmes and resources that allow them to play and learn practically through play. One such resource is the Arduino board. Arduino is an open-source platform that has been around since 2003 and is used for building electronic projects. The platform consists of both a physically programmable circuit board and software that runs on the computer. It is used to write and load computer code onto a physical board. Arduino uses a simplified version of the C++ programming language, which makes it easy to learn programming, even if the user is just starting out or at a more advanced stage of knowledge. The Arduino development board can interact and work with numerous accessories such as buttons, LEDs, smaller or larger motors, speakers, GPS units, cameras, internet. Once the user learns to work with it, it can work with a smartphone or a TV. The nature of the projects that can be made can range from robots to an electrically heated blanket used to warm hands.
In 2015, a piece of equipment was created to attract children to STEM subjects, called mBot. mBot is a robot that can be used not only in computer science classes, making learning to program it simple and fun. Any child can build their own educational robot from scratch, using just their instruction kit and a simple screwdriver they can find at home. mBot has 4 expansion ports and can connect to over 100 types of electronic modules. While building, you learn about the principles of electronics and mechanics and lay the foundation for understanding robots. The app we use to control the robot is called Makeblock. It helps us control our mBot with the push of a button. Programming is intuitive and is done using blocks of instructions, and no programming language is required. When students see the robot they have created moving and executing the various commands they have been given, they understand the beauty and usefulness of programming.
R Areas
THIS TASK AIMS AT TRAINING:
☐ reading fluency.
N E C E SS A R Y MATERIALS
M E T HO D O L O G Y :
☐ UDL (Universal Design For Learning)
Pedagogical Differenciation
ACTIVITIES
Activity 1:
Create a short code using Makeblock.
Activity 2:
Worksheet (differentiated for 5th and 6th graders).
Activity 3:
Kahoot (5 questions for grade 5, 6 questions for grade 6).
Pupil: Petru Bogdan Drăgan, class VIIIth B�Mentor: Iulian Alexandru Drăgan, class XIIth E
Teacher: Claudia Oneț
The Cardiovascular system
Disciplinary areas
☐ Arts
☐ Mathematics
Classes
5 - 6
Objectives
IN THIS LESSON, STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO LEARN THE FOLLOWING:
1. To use their research skills
2. To develop an understanding of natural processes
3. To develop their ability to cooperate
4. To develop their ability to understand a presentation
C O N T E X T U A L I Z A TION
The cardiovascular system is one of the most important systems in the body. It is essential for life, pumping blood through our bodies. The cardiovascular system has two types of circulation: small circulation and large circulation. The small circulation carries blood from the heart to the lungs and back. The large circulation carries blood from the heart to the body and back. The cardiovascular system is made up of the heart, arteries, veins, capillaries.
The heart is one of the most important organs in the body. It pumps blood through the body with the help of the heart muscle. The heart has four chambers: the left atrium together with the left ventricle and the right atrium together with the right ventricle. The arteries are the blood vessels that always carry oxygenated blood through the body, with one exception: the pulmonary artery, which carries non-oxygenated blood to the lungs. The largest artery and blood vessel in the body is the aorta, which starts in the left ventricle and carries oxygenated blood to the body. In the body, the arteries become arterioles, smaller arteries. Veins are a type of blood vessel that always bring blood to the heart. The pulmonary vein brings oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart, and the rest of the veins carry non-oxygenated blood from the tissues to the heart. In veins, unlike arteries, the pressure is much lower, so there are valves in the veins to prevent blood from moving in the wrong direction. In the body, veins become venules.
Capillaries are a type of blood vessel, the smallest in the body, that connect an arteriole to a venule. They also have the role of absorbing unusable substances from cells (water, urea, creatinine, etc.). The cardiovascular system and the respiratory system are closely linked, because it is in the smallest branches of the lungs, the alveoli, that gas exchange takes place. Carbon dioxide leaves the blood and oxygen enters. The cardiovascular system can have many conditions, including: Atherosclerosis, the deposition of a layer of fat on the arteries, which can lead to myocardial infarction; hypertension, abnormally high blood pressure, which can lead to ruptured blood vessels; cardiomyopathy, when the heart muscle is damaged and can lead to heart failure. Blood is another component of the cardiovascular system; it supplies oxygen to cells and is made up of plasma, red blood cells (haemocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes) and platelets (platelets).
R Areas
THIS TASK AIMS AT TRAINING:
☐ reading fluency.
☐ Reading comprehension.
NECESSARY M A T E R I A L S
M E T HO D O L O G Y :
☐ UDL (Universal Design For Learning)
Pedagogical Differenciation
ACTIVITIES
Activity 1:
Students answer the Kahoot test prepared by the presenter, after the presenter has previously discussed the cardiovascular system and blood vessels with them.
Activity 2:
Worksheet with questions from the presentation.
Pupil: Albert Gontean, class VIth D
Teacher: Carmen-Cerasela Bociu
Mathematics can be fun
DISCIPLINARY AREAS
Classes
5 - 6
Objectives
IN THIS LESSON, IT IS INTENDED THAT THE STUDENT(S) WILL LEARN THE FOLLOWING:
2. To develop the ability to listen to a narrative
C O N T E X T U A L I Z ATION
Some students have problems with maths when it is taught at school. Their problem is that most maths lessons usually start with a few common formulas, such as "Here's the new formula for today; here's how to calculate the values; here's the correct answer". Students get the impression that there is no attempt to motivate learners, when the real reason should be to trigger curiosity and engagement. Another problem is that learners have little say in the topics and are expected to give an exact answer.
Grigore Moisil, a famous Romanian mathematician, once said: "I don't know what to say: 'Mathematics is not done at fixed times. You do it when you get an idea. In the evening or in the morning, when you wake up, you wash, you think about mathematics. If you don't wash, you still think about maths." Carl Friedrich Gauss, a mathematician who greatly influenced this science, said that "The wonderful charm of this sublime science, mathematics, is revealed only to those who have the courage to delve into it".
Considering these things, we can see that mathematics will develop logical thinking, which will help you a lot in life. It is the only science where all you need is a pencil and a sheet of paper. The driverless car, the fighter jet, GPS and cutting double glazing are just a few examples that cannot exist without mathematics. One of Pythagoras' most famous statements is "Learn to see further than your eyes can reach", which is still applicable today. Everyone uses mathematics, sometimes in the most unusual situations.
Dividing property between relatives is done with... fractions!In all the subjects you will go through you will find a touch of maths. In music, mathematical order is king. One of the most exciting maths lessons you'll learn will be about the Fibonacci string, one of the greatest mathematicians of his time. In this string, each number is the sum of the previous two numbers, and the first two values are always 0 and 1. Mathematics has its own music, and we should always remember what Albert Einstein said, "Imagination is often more important than knowledge."
R Areas
THIS TASK AIMS AT TRAINING :
☐ reading fluency.
☐ Reading comprehension.
N E C E SS A R Y MATERIALS
M E T HO D O L O G Y :
☐ UDL (Universal Design For Learning)
Pedagogical Differenciation
ACTIVITIES
Activity 1:
Students are asked various questions during the presentation.
Activity 2:
Students answer a series of questions from a Kahoot prepared based on the PowerPoint presentation.
Pupil: Alexandru Kelemen, class VIIth D
Teacher: Simona Ivașcu
A short presentation of the Universe
DISCIPLINARY AREAS
Classes
5 - 6
Objectives
IN THIS LESSON, IT IS INTENDED THAT THE STUDENT(S) WILL LEARN THE FOLLOWING:
C O N T E X T U A L I Z A TION
13.8 billion years ago, an infinitely small, hot and dense point began to grow exponentially, creating everything we have ever seen and experienced. In the first milliseconds of life, the Universe created its first quarks, protons, electrons and other elementary particles, which could not yet collide because of the heat. Very soon after the birth of the Universe, the Dark Ages began. For 380,000 years, the Universe was a dark, opaque place, dominated by a cloud of non-interacting atoms, where absolutely nothing happened. This era ended with the production of atoms, resulting from the collision of protons, neutrons and electrons. Eventually, the Universe began to be illuminated by the first stars and galaxies that formed from the cloud of atoms. The Universe took its present shape mainly due to uniform expansion in all directions at a speed faster than the speed of light. For this reason, we will probably never reach galaxies outside the local group, because we cannot exceed the speed of light. The Local Group is a collection of galaxies, mainly composed of the Milky Way (our galaxy) and the Andromeda galaxy, both surrounded by smaller galaxies. However, scientists have shown that everything has an end. The Sun will swallow the Earth in a few billion years and then shrink to form a white dwarf. The Milky Way and Andromeda will collide to form the supergalaxy Lactomeda, which will have a central black hole so massive that it will not produce enough stars in a few tens or hundreds of billions of years, our galaxy joining the eternal darkness of the Universe.At some point, the Universe will end, that much is clear, but how, we don't yet know. It may change its direction of expansion, with the entire Universe returning to that infinitely small initial point. Or, according to the most popular theory, it could expand to infinity, leaving everything in darkness, and in trillions of years, even black holes could dissolve by emitting Hawking radiation, atoms could break into smaller and smaller particles until they disappear, leaving the Universe in eternal silence.
R Areas
THIS TASK AIMS TO TRAIN:
N E C E S SA R Y MATERIALS
M E T HO D O L O G Y :
☐ UDL (Universal Design For Learning)
Pedagogical Differenciation
ACTIVITIES
Activity 1:
Students have to answer the Kahoot questions in the quiz prepared by the presenter.
Activity 2:
Worksheets with questions from the presentation.
Pupil: Sara-Iren Baltă, class VIIIth A
Teacher: Codruța-Diana Chercotă-Daju
What do fairy-tales teach us?
DISCIPLINARY AREAS
Classes
5 - 6
Objectives
IN THIS LESSON, IT IS INTENDED THAT THE STUDENT(S) WILL LEARN THE FOLLOWING:
C O N T E X T U A L I Z A TION
What is literature? Just letters and words put in order? Well, not really.
Literature is an artistic creation that conveys ideas, feelings, images, facts, but we can also find in it other information about different subjects. In the book The Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum, we know that Dorothy lived with her aunt and uncle in a little house that is taken away by a tornado. What is a tornado? A tornado is a phenomenon of nature, a very strong wind that acts like a whirlwind. This brings to mind geography and physics.
In the fairy tale "The Man Who Changes Seasons" by Petre Crăciun, there is a story about an emperor who has three sons. The boys are each tasked with finding a chest. The eldest and the middle one find treasure chests, but the youngest, Patsy, finds a chest with a bud, a yellow and a red leaf and a pine twig, which he considers useless treasures. When the emperor dies, the older boy takes the throne, the middle boy buys much land and many cattle. But the younger one didn't know what to do, so he went off to seek his fortune. After a while, he ends up in a forest where he saves a landowner from death, so in gratitude, the landowner makes him chief of his band.
A year passes, and an enemy starts a war. Because of the frost, the soldiers freeze to death. We know that frost, in biological terms, means an atmospheric condition characterised by air temperatures below zero degrees. When exposed to cold, the human body is more sensitive. The heart is one of the organs most affected by the cold, pumping blood more and more slowly, which can lead to a heart attack. The captains were called in to discuss a plan, but only the Blackbeard thought of his chest, took the bud, leaves and twig, cast a spell and the frost disappeared. Everyone was amazed, but they managed to defeat the enemy and he became the strongest man after the emperor.
In the fairy tale we are introduced to the leaves, buds and branches of fir trees, which are forms of vegetation found in the forest. We know that the forest is a large land dominated by trees, which is a matter of biology.In both Dorothy's story and in the story of the Blackbird, we find moral values. In the first story, Dorothy tells the tin man, the lion and the scarecrow to come with her to get help from the wizard. This shows willingness to help, courage and empathy. We find the same moral values in the second story, when the boy rescued the squire and fought in the war.
That said, we see themes that we overlook when reading a text, but which prove that stories are not just literature, but a harmony of interdisciplinary knowledge.
R Areas
THIS TASK AIMS TO TRAIN :
N E C E SS A R Y MATERIALS
M E T HO D O L O G Y :
☐ UDL (Universal Design For Learning)
Pedagogical Differenciation
ACTIVITIES
Activity 1:
Students receive worksheets with questions from the presentation.
Activity 2:
Pupils answer the questions in the Kahoot test.
ROMANIA – R TEAM
R Team
R TEAM – exercise book on line
Team R - 18 clubs 18 mentors, 40 students with possible learning difficulties in secondary school classes
A series of worksheets focusing on areas of development
RESULTS OF THE READING CLUBS