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Scientix: The STEM lessons resources repository

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Scientix: The STEM lessons resources repository

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 Real-world problems you can implement in your STEM class

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 Real-world problems you can implement in your STEM class

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Laundry day – Interdisciplinary activity for primary lessons

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The value of an interdisciplinary approach to STEM

What is the most significant advantage of an interdisciplinary approach to STEM lessons? Share your ideas and experience on the Padlet below.

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Please peruse the following sections to get examples of licenses to use in your lesson plan:

Types of Creative Commons Licenses
Attribution CC BY

This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials. View License Deed.

Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects. View License Deed.

Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND

This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you. View License Deed.

Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. View License Deed.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. View License Deed.

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND

This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, without changing them in any way or using them commercially. View License Deed.

How to use the Creative Commons License in your lesson plan?When including a Creative Commons license in a document, you can use the Creative Commons webpage to find out which license you can apply, depending on your needs: https://creativecommons.org/choose/In doing so, you should answer these two questions:

1. Allow adaptations of your work to be shared?

2. Allow commercial uses of your work?

In order to get a resource that can be modified, you’ll need to choose a license that allows adaptations - that means answering “Yes” or “Yes, as long as others share alike”. If you need help using this tool, you can click on the question mark under the question on the webpage.

After you answer the questions, you’ll find the “Selected License” below. In order to use it in your document, you can copy and paste the icon and the first sentence that appears under “Have a web page?”

Licenses in Scientix repository and the Scientix Translation on Demand service

Licenses have an important role in Scientix; you will find them under the title of each resource, so you can visualise them easily. Scientix Translation on Demand allows you to request free translations of teaching materials included in the Scientix repository. These resources are under license that allows derivatives.

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this is the first MOOC on European Schoolnet Academy that is organised and carried out entirely by Scientix? Scientix promotes and supports a Europe-wide collaboration among STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) teachers, education researchers, policymakers and other STEM education professionals.

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Scientix, the community for science education in Europe

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 Real-world STEM activities to use in your classroom

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 Real-world STEM activities to use in your classroom

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Real world problems in STEM lessons – Primary Science Lesson I Cornelia Melcu

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Real world problems in STEM lesson – Primary Science Lesson II

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Real world problems in STEM lesson – Chemistry

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Real world problems in STEM lesson – Physics

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Real world problems in STEM lesson – Mathematics

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Do you agree that most students don't have an appreciation for science because they can't relate it to the real world? How do you deal with it in your STEM classes? Share useful experiences and resources on the Padlet below.

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Essential 21st-century skills for today’s students

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Essential 21st-century skills for today’s students

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We have been in the 21st-century for almost 20 years. Technology around us has gone a long way since the beginning of our millennium. Yet, most of our classrooms remain more or less the same as they were at the end of the 20th century. It could be argued that education is still trying to catch up with all the technological achievements. In order to prepare students to successfully deal with the requirements of the 21st century, schools need to help them develop the necessary skills. Many researchers, as well as business leaders, politicians, and educators, are united around the idea that students need 21st-century skills to be successful in today’s job market. For big companies, like Microsoft, Intel, and Cisco, the biggest concern is that recent graduates don’t have the necessary skills for the jobs of tomorrow.

What are 21st-century skills?

It is important to note that there is no clear consensus on what skills should be included in the category of 21st-century skills. The term itself represents a list of skills that students need to acquire for work, life and citizenship. Let’s look at some proposed skills.

For instance, Tony Wagner suggests seven survival skills:

Critical thinking and problem-solving;

Collaboration and leadership;

Effective oral and written communication;

Accessing and analysing information;

Curiosity and imagination;

Initiative and entrepreneurialism;

Agility and adaptability.

Watch this video if you wish to learn more about seven survival skills.

Another list of 21st-century skills was proposed by the non-profit organisation Partnership for the 21st-century learning (P21). They suggest:

Content knowledge and 21st-century themes;

Learning and innovation skills (better known as the 4C’s);

Information, media and technology skills;

Life and career skills.

You can download the Framework for 21st Century Learning developed by P21 here.

Even though there are some differences in approaches, some skills are on almost every list, such as critical thinking, digital literacy, and communication.

How can one accommodate 21st-century skills in the classroom?

Watch this video to understand how we can teach students 4C’s (critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity).
As we could see, hands-on and project-based learning, teamwork, and the use of technology can help students develop 21st-century skills and prepare them for challenges.

A teacher could further improve their classroom activities by using already available resources such as Scientix, or by continuously learning about new pedagogical trends through European Schoolnet Academy MOOCs.

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RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms

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The essential skills of the 21th century students

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The essential skills of the 21th century students

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 Interdisciplinary way of implementing real-world problems

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 Interdisciplinary way of implementing real-world problems

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Laundry day – Interdisciplinary activity for primary lessons

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The value of an interdisciplinary approach to STEM

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A video we made about a topic close to our hearts - Open Education!

Blink Tower is a small team based in Cape Town, South Africa - and we love making explainer videos!

Feel free to share it, anywhere you like!

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 Implementing real -world problems in our class

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 Implementing real -world problems in our class

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The importance of engaging students in real world STEM problems

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Scientix, the community for science education in Europe