The Monitoring of Climate Change from Space

Topic(s) addressed

Sustainability - dealing with climate change in a STEM frame

Learning together - addressing the underachievement 

Target groups

Highly achieving as well as challenged students.

Methodologies

• The project strived to develop a high degree of critical thinking in both the underachieving and the top talent groups of the students, as well as increase their skills in and motivation for entrepreneurship. 

• During the short team exchanges, the hosts organized the possibility of observing and evaluating examples of good practice, and the participating groups of students organized a short course when they returned home, to act as teachers sharing their experiences with their classmates.

Environments

• The set-up of the project acted as a test facility for teachers to observe and harvest good practices in different countries. 

• The findings were shared among teachers for strengthening the teaching of diverse groups of students, from top performing to seriously challenged children.

Teachers

• During the project, teachers observed each other and harvested good practices. 

• They shared findings to strengthen the differentiation in their teaching. 

• The Community of Practice was established through the use of digital resources.

• During project exchanges, the teachers carried out meetings to improve the administration and optimization of all work produced during the project. 

• Teachers and students working side by side were crucial for the quality of the outcome.

Impact

• The results of the project have been distributed to various stakeholders on several IT platforms outside the project frame highly impacting the participating organizations. 

• The project's dissemination is extremely good at the local level.

• The project has had an impact on participating students, teachers and parents – especially at a personal level concerning openness, cooperation skills and European cultural awareness. 

• The Master Book of Teaching is very inspiring and useful for future coding classes and new projects, at the European partner schools.