Picture provided by the author, attribution CC-BY The idea STEAM education is a crucial topic for next generations. The European Commission suggests to improve STEAM education for an early age of students. We know children are curios and have a natural disposition to Science but later sometimes they lose...
Picture provided by the author, attribution CC-BY All teachers now know what STEAM means. However, we still have question marks about how it can be applied in subjects other than science. I planned a STEAM workshop at my school where I talked on how we can apply STEAM to...
It is a STEAM project that includes multidisciplinary topics about Mars. Students did brainstorming and shared ideas on how it would be possible to form a liveable life on it. There are many aims, such as: improving language skills, creating awareness about Mars and building friendships among the students...
Since the beginning of the Coronavirus crisis, Joan Miró School wanted to contribute to the health system. We detected that Hospitals and medical centers needed protective masks/face shields to prevent contagion, so we started 3D printing them using our school’s 3D printer. We faced logistics problems as our schools...
In 2014, 100 years had passed since the outbreak of World War I and, throughout Europe, quite a number of events were planned then under the auspices of the European Commission. The “Europeana 1914-1918” project arrived in Sibiu, my town, and the Library of “Lucian Blaga” University hosted it...
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Image: shutterstock_387345829- Today we are living in the cusp of a new industrial revolution that differs from all the previous ones. It´s been coined as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (RI4) at the 2011 Hannover Fair. It comes in the sequence, obviously, of the other industrial revolutions: the first industrial revolution...
Image: shutterstock_439647085 Welcome to “STEAM Family”, family workshops spreading the knowledge and interest of STEAM in society. Science and technology arise a travel through different everyday realities to build knowledge into family and complete a challenge at home enjoying. Real and virtual experimentation, and collaboration of institutions and companies complete...
Image: Shutterstock/Monkey Business Images Teachers are in constant search of innovative methodologies or tools that can help them make their lessons fun and compelling while making students excited to learn sciences. A popular way to do so has been that of mixing STEM subjects with other fields of study....
The teaching of Science is in crisis- is stated several times by several people. The EU and the US are starting project after project to solve the problem, the programs (like the ones collected on the Scientix portal) mostly try to popularize the study of Science and scientific careers,...
Image: Shutterstock/Shaiith Some months ago I was asked what I prefer to practice: STEM or STEAM? To be honest, in the first moment I was a little confused with this question. Why should art be a part of STEM? But when I thought about it, I have practiced STEAM for years....