Posts Tagged ‘History’

Archaeology and STEAM are brought together in this study, providing children with the opportunity to learn about culture and history.

Archaeology and STEAM (‘STEAM is Everywhere’ eTwinning Project)

CC-BY, provided by author Archaeology and its connection with STEAM were the focus of this study, which aimed to encourage engagement with STEM subjects among preschool children aged 3–6. The children first learnt the meaning of the word ‘archaeology’ and then they looked for answers to questions such as...

Project History of mathematics

Picture provided by the author, attribution CC-BY Thinking about how to make mathematics interesting for children and how to prompt and encourage them to independently research, search and “dig” new information on Internet, I decided to start a new project at the school level: “History of Mathematics”. I remembered...

Coding recent history in Italy

All pictures are the author’s own. It was January 13th 2016 when Prof. Alessandro Bogliolo (University of Urbino) launched the first video lesson of the MOOC: Coding in your classroom, now! Hundreds of teachers followed him, interested in introducing coding and computational thinking in their classrooms. Since then, that...

Gamification in High School Math classes

Abstract: Two cross-curricular eTwinning Problem Based Learning projects developed by 3 9th grade classes of a Humanities high school in Italy: in one project students learned how they can cooperate with foreign partners and then debate together about the topics they learned in the other project students learned Maths...