What is the Under The Same Sky Project?
The project " Under the same Sky " is based on a partnership between secondary education institutions in Italy, Romania, Poland and Spain under the coordination of Turkey.
The main target group of the project is students in the 15-18 age range and STEAM field teachers.
The needs of the so-called individual industry period are creativity, problem-solving, critical thinking and collaborative work. STEAM education is one of the best methods for transferring these skills to students, which is also part of 21. century skills. The studies show that if it continues in the current way, the personnel needs needed in the future in Europe in the STEAM field will not be met with the manpower that prefers the STEAM field. This situation leads to the need for a qualified STEAM education in schools and for more students to be directed to STEAM fields.
This project provides students with a qualified STEAM education based on astronomy, which has attracted human interest throughout history, while also contributing to the training of qualified personnel needed in the field of STEAM.
The project consists of astronomy-themed STEAM events, sky observation and astrophotography events, observation festivities and local activities.
The rich content of the project, the diversity of its activities and the inclusion of art in the process (STEAM) will increase the interest of female students, who are particularly disadvantaged in STEM. The project is also being carried out as an eTwinning project with wider groups of participants under the same name. Both projects will be carried out in coordination with each other and the eTwinning platform will be used actively in every phase of the project such as:
* collaboration between partners
* ensuring communication between partners
* online courses
* information and document sharing
* sharing of products
* dissemination.
After the start of the project, a total of 5 teachers, one teacher from each partner who is responsible for the project in the first degree, will be given a 5-day course in Turkey. The course will be given by Çukurova University Continuing Education Center and will provide the teachers with the knowledge and experience they need during the project process: STEAM applications, sky observation and astrophotography.
Within the scope of the project, five short-term mobilities of student groups will be realized in Turkey, Spain, Italy, Poland and Romania. 5 students and 2 teachers from each school will participate in each mobility. The students who will participate in the mobility will be selected by the commission according to the score superiority determined by using the specific evaluation criteria among the students who are active in the project.
At least half of all students participating in the mobilities will be made up of female students who are a disadvantaged group or other disadvantaged students. Students participating in mobility will be offered pre-mobility linguistic, cultural and pedagogical support.
Each mobility will be accompanied by two teachers, at least one of whom has a good level of knowledge of the English language. The teachers who will participate in the mobility will also be determined by the commission according to the score superiority determined by using the specific evaluation criteria among the teachers who work actively in the project.
Each mobility will cover a period of 5 days and includes STEAM activities, scientific excursions, sky observation activities and cultural activities, as well as many -from basic to advanced levels as telescope construction activities carried out in cooperation with the partners.
With all activities to be carried out students’ competencies will be improved in the fields of
* teamwork
* enhancing creativity
* problem-solving
* Product-oriented thinking
* high - level of knowledge in astronomy.
Students will be able to transfer knowledge between disciplines using knowledge in astronomy, physics, mathematics, engineering and coding while performing astronomy-themed activities.
The project includes online training, information and document sharing, experience transfer and rich content activities that will contribute greatly to the professional development of STEAM teachers in the school.
For the evaluation of the project, each school will have its evaluation team and a project evaluation team with the participation of all partners. The project evaluation team will evaluate the efficiency of the activities specified in the project calendar with monthly meetings.
Activities within the scope of dissemination:
* observation festivities.
* project exhibition
* national and international symposiums and congresses
* activities for primary school students
* local and national press cooperation will enable the project to reach very large audiences.
Concrete outcomes of our project:
* astronomy-themed steam events guide
* sky observation guide and astrophotography guide
* basic to advanced level telescope construction guide
They will be useful tools for all secondary students and teachers
