School mapping report of the four educational systems of the partner schools from the Erasmus+ KA219 project Citizen Science at School

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School Mapping Report
Authors Montero R., Laugel C., Van den Eynde K.,
Safarik J., Zykova M.
Version V1 – 05/01/2018
V2 – 11/01/2018

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Table of contents:
1 The Citizen Science at School project and the curricula map ............................................... 3
2 Educational Systems Overview ............................................................................................. 5
3 Mapping the curriculum........................................................................................................ 9
3.1 Methodology................................................................................................................. 9
3.2 Maths (Rafael Montero)................................................................................................ 9
3.3 Biology (Karin Van den Eynde) ...................................................................................... 9
3.4 Chemistry (Celine Laugel)............................................................................................ 10
3.5 Physics (Jakub Safarik)................................................................................................. 10
4 References........................................................................................................................... 11
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1 The Citizen Science at School project and the
curricula map
The Citizen Science at School (CSS) project is formed by the association of four secondary
schools highly relevant in their respective regions and from different European countries
(Spain, Belgium, France and the Czech Republic). Teachers from these schools have noted in
their students a low motivation towards the study of the subjects of Sciences Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), what has been translated in an alarming decrease in the
scientific vocations.
In each school the project is led by a coordinator, a teacher specialized in innovative
pedagogies who, aware of the need to motivate students towards the study of science and to
promote scientific vocations, has been involved in several European projects on an individual
basis, whose main objective were to validate and disseminate innovative pedagogies:
• Jakub Safarik – Czech Republic – Gymnazium Boticska (Praha) - http://www.gybot.cz/
• Celine Laugel – France - Lycee Marguerite Yourcenar (Erstein) -
http://entea.fr/public/0672677W/Pages/Accueil.aspx
• Karin Van den Eynde – Belgium – Sint Donatus (Merchtem) -
http://www.sintdonatus.be/
• Rafael Montero – Spain - Col. Corazón de María (Gijón) – http://www.codema.es/
After the success of the project Teaching Innovate Practices at School (TIPS!), in which the
participating schools exchanged their knowledge of successful educational practices and
generated educational resources in European languages, with the CSS project the coordinators
intend to incorporate a new tool into their teaching practice . Citizen science is a concept that
involves students in real research on curriculum topics of high interest and has been shown to
greatly increase the motivation of students towards the study of science by contextualizing its
learning. The Citizen Science at School project aims to open the member schools to external
agents (universities, research centers, national and international experts, etc.) to generate
networks that will produce greater impact and sustainability and are the basis for future
collaborations.
The associated schools intend with this project to achieve the following objectives:
• OBJECTIVE 1 (O1): To train the participating teachers in Citizen Science and incorporate
this concept into their teaching practice through the implementation of pilot
experiences in each school.
• OBJECTIVE 2 (O2): To increase students' motivation to study science as well as
scientific vocations through their participation in European Citizen Science projects
and by taking part in workshops at each partner school that contextualise science
learning.
• OBJECTIVE 3 (O3): To increase the European dimension of the educational community
of partner schools, promoting the creation of a network of schools, universities and
research organizations with common interests that establish synergies to further
develop projects in the future, in particular a KA201 project.
• OBJECTIVE 4 (O4): To achieve a European eTwinning quality label by fulfilling the 6
criteria (pedagogical innovation, curricular integration, communication and

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information exchange, collaboration between schools, use of technology and results,
impact and documentation) of the Spanish National eTwinning Support System. Get
each partner school certified with the ETWINNING SCHOOL seal.
To achieve these objectives, four citizen science projects will be carried out quarterly (two per
school year) programmed through didactic units written at transnational meetings. In each
project, international groups of students should research on a relevant curricular theme and
generate information and data that will allow them to produce a final product during the
mobility that closes the work of the unit and which will be presented to the educational
community of the host school. In addition, during the mobility workshops and activities will be
held to promote scientific vocations allowing students to contact the university experts who
have supported them during their research.
In order for the didactic units to be curricular, the Spanish coordinator will ask the other
teachers to facilitate the curricula in STEM subject’s curricula of the students from the
different countries involved in the two-year project. The curricular mapping and the didactic
units will be made public and available in the TwinSpace of the project, which will serve as a
repository and will be widely distributed in media, social networks, and webs and Educational
Institutions, following the dissemination plan of the project, which will generate abundant
traffic towards them and will produce their reuse by STEM teachers at all levels from the local
/ regional to the European.
The association aims at creating a network of schools and external agents with common
interests that can continue to develop projects in the future. The training that teachers directly
involved in the project will receive will improve their teaching, providing them with new tools
and ideas that will improve the skills not only for the students directly involved, but also of
future generations of them. This is a further step in a future-oriented project, in which the
participating schools want to continue to promote collaboration and exchange of good
practices at all levels of the educational community, opening it up to the outside, thus
preparing to face the Challenges of 21st century education.
Project Web - https://twinspace.etwinning.net/47475
This report explores the STEM curricula and discuss the Educational Systems of the four
countries involved in the Erasmus+ project CSS. The report only analyses the curricula of the
subjects relevant to this two-year duration project and aims at producing a set of common
items, relevant to the students belonging to the project.
This Curricula map will act as a guideline for the teachers while elaborating the didactic units
based on citizen science that they will be showing the teachers and students during the
workshops in their countries mobilities.

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2 Educational Systems Overview
For each country, the Organisation of School Time and the Structure of its Educational System
is provided:

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3 Mapping the curriculum
3.1 Methodology
On the first transnational meeting of the project (Gijón, October 25th
2017) the coordinators
agreed upon the methodology for the elaboration of the curriculum map. Each teacher looked
for the curricula in Maths, Biology, Physics and Chemistry for the students from their country
taking part in the project. This curricula was sent to the teacher responsible for looking for the
matches in one of the subjects. Matches were then sent to the Spanish coordinator to produce
the curricula map.
In the tables, a 1 in the topic means it is taught in the 1st
year of the project, whilst a 2 means it
is taught in the 2nd
year.
A topic is highlighted in green when it is taught in all four countries whether in first or second
year, meaning that it is curricular to all students and therefore a didactic unit can be based on
it.
3.2 Maths (Rafael Montero)
Topic Spanish
Curriculum
French
Curriculum
Czech
Curriculum
Belgian
Curriculum
Equations and
systems
1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2
Inequations 1 1 1,2
Trigonometry 1,2 1,2 1,2 1
Vectors 1,2 1 2 1
Functions 1,2 1,2 2 1
Derivation 1 2 1
Integration 2 2
Statistic 2 1,2 2
Probability 1 1 2
3.3 Biology (Karin Van den Eynde)
Topic Spanish
Curriculum
French
Curriculum
Czech
Curriculum
Belgian
Curriculum
Biodiversity 2 1
Biomolecules 2 1 1
Cell 1 1 1 1
Classification
plants/animals
2 2
Ecology 1 1
Evolution 1 1 2
Genetics 1 2 2
Human 2 2 2 2

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Reproduction
Histology 2 1 2 1
Structure and
function of cell
organels
2 1 2 1
3.4 Chemistry (Celine Laugel)
Topic Spanish
Curriculum
French
Curriculum
Czech
Curriculum
Belgian
Curriculum
Atom / models 1 1 2 1
Periodic table of
elements
1 1 1 1
Molecule model /
chemical bond
1 1 2 1
Chemical reaction
/stoichiometry
1,2 1,2 1 1
Chemical equilibrium 1 2
Redox 2 1 2
Nomenclature of
inorganic compounds
1 1 1 1
Non aromatic
hydrocarbons
1,2 2 2 1
Intermolecular forces 1 2 2 1
Reaction rate 2 2
New materials 2 2
Structural isomery 2 2
Solution/concentrations 1 1
The mole 1 1
3.5 Physics (Jakub Safarik)
Topic Spanish
Curriculum
French
Curriculum
Czech
Curriculum
Belgian
Curriculum
Mechanic 1 1 1 2
Molecular physics
and
Thermodynamic
2 1 1
Oscilation and
waves
2 1 1 2
Electromagnetism 2 2 2 1
Optics 2 2
Quantum physics 2 2
Nuclear physics 1 2 2 1
Astrophysics 2 1 2

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4 References
• Nanopinion School mapping report
• The Structure of the European Education Systems 2017/18: Schematic Diagrams
• Compulsory Education in Europe 2017/18
• The Organisation of School time in Europe
• CSS project web