Integrated Curriculum_Educational Renaissance STEM+PHASE

Our project included cross-curricular lessons where students took part actively with hands on practices, field trips, by creating projects and organising events. The theory behind STEM+PHASE education; Exposing students to STEM in an attractive way and by adding PHASE dimension in order to give it a broader view. It gave the pupils opportunity to explore related concepts and they developed a passion for it. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. And the dimension our project adds is PHASE which stands for Physical education, Health, Arts, Social studies and English. STEM+PHASE education integrates concepts that are usually taught as seperate subjects in different classes and emphasizes the application of knowledge to real life situations. The units in our project were typically based around finding a solution to a real world problem and tends to emphasize Project Based Learning. The integrated lessons in our project ensured that the students understand the connection of the context to the real world. Our project IC_ER STEM+PHASE involved 6 partners from 6 different countries across Europe. Polytechnische Schule Schwaz - Austria acts as the coordinator. Sint-Joriscollege- Netherlands Escola Secundária com 3º Ciclo do Ensino Básico Martins Sarmento - Portugal Antalya Sınav Secondary School - Turkey Institut Gerbert d'Aurillac - Spain Punkalaitumen Keskuskoulu - Finland The participant schools will continue collaborating creating new ideas and projects. The Objectives of our Project were; to help students make relevant connections among various curricular disciplines to boost students' motivation to enable early acquisition of basic skills to provide an encouraging, positive and supportive school environment, higher attendance, better attitudes towards school to make students actively engage in learning process by collaborating with their peers and teachers to raise awareness on the importance of interdisciplinary study among educators, pupils, parents and authorities. to improve the 4Cs of Education; Critical thinking, Communication, Creativity and Collaboration to enhance transversal key competences to improve scientific literacy, numeracy and ICT skills to provide genuine opportunities for teachers’ professional development.Throughout our project students attended lessons about these topics:self discovery, consumption & economy, human rights, global warming, cultural diversity, water, human body, Olympics, animals, brain and mind, mother earth, world hunger, technology, obesity, deforestation, solar system.Every school picked three topics a year and worked on these topic interdisciplinary. For every topic several subjects were involved. The Erasmus group collected all the materials and the knowledge.Every topic had an extra event: a field trip, an external expert, a model, a presentation.At the meetings where only teachers were involved the teachers were visiting schools which already working on interdisciplinary teaching and attending lectures of experts. At the meetings, including students, the students worked together on one of the topics and had to discuss in mixed groups.