Abstract:

LECLIC -”Living in the Era of Climate Change” is a two years international ERASMUS + KA229 (2020-1-ES01-KA229-082206) project of short term exchange of pupils composed by a consortium of four secondary schools: the Spanish Colegio La Salle-Buen Consejo, the Italian Scuola secondaria di I Grado Ciro Scianna, the Greek 14th Junior High School of Patras and the Portuguese Agrupamento de Escolas Rio Novo do Principe - Cacia.

Students, ages between 12 and 16 years old, are reflecting on the need of a behavioural change in the families lifestyles to mitigate climate change. From a curricular perspective, an innovative STE(A)M curriculum is challenging students to analyse the causes of climate change in the regions where they live, the current lifestyle of the student’s families, the quality of life of the region where they live. This will help them to make proposals on how they can change their habits of life, in a big way, so as to improve their current and future lifestyle to help to mitigate climate change.

In this paper, we present the blended methodology used to design, implement and evaluate this innovative STE(A)M curriculum on climate change. This blend is an integration of school and extracurricular activities that use clouding computing methodology and a face-to-face methodology.

Cloud computing methodology uses two main resources: google drive and the european platform eTwinning. Google drive is used as a data bank for sharing and editing the ongoing information relative to all the STE(A)M activities and products of the LECLIC project. eTwinning platform is used for disseminating the project within the european schools and as a communication tool for students participating in the project through chats, forums and webinars.

Face-to-face methodology consists in four short term exchanges of pupils participating in the project to the other schools sited in Bagheria (Sicilia), Patras (Greece), Puerto Real (Spain) and Aveiro (Portugal). These exchanges help students to experience the causes and consequences of climate change in life in the Mediterranean and Atlantic regions through the participation in technical visits to eco-friendly business, research institutions on climate change and biomedical institutions.

In this paper, we present the strategies and activities designed to integrate both methodologies, cloud computing and face-to-face in school and extracurricular activities.

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Keywords:

International project, STEAM education, climate change.