CSS 1st Transnational Meeting

Citizen Science at School (CSS)
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1. Presentation of schools and teachers involved in the CSS Project
2. CSS in a nutshell
3. Curriculum Map
4. eTwinning: TwinSpace. Students Profiles. Folders.
5. Our project has been selected, now what? – Project management
6. Things to keep
7. Some good advice from NA
8. Reference class students selection criteria
9. Logo contest
1st Transnational Meeting
Gijón, October 25th 2017
09.05-12.00 Working Time

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1. Presentation of schools and teachers involved in the CSS Project
https://www.powtoon.com/c/cY0u5Xokhe0/1/m
09.05-12.00 Working Time

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Citizen Science is understood as the participation of the general public in scientific research
activities in which citizens contribute actively, either with their intellectual effort or with the
knowledge of their environment or providing their own tools and resources.
The centers that form the association concerned about the low results and low motivation of their
students in the CTIM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects want the
Citizen Science at School (CSS) project to bring the concept of Citizen Science to the classroom
for so:
1 - To support the teaching staff in the incorporation of an innovative practice (Citizen Science)
that contextualize the learning of the sciences when approaching real investigations to the
classroom. It is hoped to achieve a higher quality teaching that will lead to a greater motivation of
the teaching staff. [PRIORITY 1]
2 - Addressing low achievement in CTIM materials through more effective and innovative
teaching methods that encourage critical thinking in students and the acquisition of skills and
competences. Participating actively in research will not only provide experimental data to
researchers, but will enable students to acquire new skills, a deeper understanding of scientific
work and a greater motivation to study science that will lead to improved academic performance
and scientific vocations . [PRIORITY 2]
PROJECT PRIORITIES

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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
center.
OBJECTIVE 2 (O2): To increase students' motivation to study science as well as scientific
vocations through their participation in Citizen Science projects at European level and the
realization of workshops in each partner center that contextualise their learning
OBJECTIVE 3 (O3): To increase the European dimension of the educational community of
partner schools, promoting the creation of a network of centers, 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 seal by fulfilling the 6
criteria (pedagogical innovation, curricular integration, communication and information
exchange, collaboration between centers, use of technology and results, impact and
documentation) National eTwinning Support System for the National Quality Seal. Be able to
certify each partner school with the ETWINNING SCHOOL seal.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES

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Cintia Refojo - Head of the Unit for the Promotion of Scientific Vocations of the FECYT
Fermín Serrano - Manager at Ibercivis. Responsible for the Spanish Observatory of Citizen
Science. PH OF WATER
Lucía Arias - Head of Education at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Maite Debry - Project Manager at European Schoolnet. EUROPEANA
Rosa Doran - Astrophysics. Member of Nuclio, Galileo Teachers and the International
Astronomical Union. Responsible for the project BHIMS (Black Holes In My School)
Antoine Hubert - Coordinator of the Didactic Area of the Educational Team of the European
Space Agency
Patrick Miller - Professor of the Department of Mathematics at Hardin-Simmons University
(Abilene, Texas). Responsible for the IASC (International Asteroid Search Campaign -
Astronomers without borders)
Hilario López - Professor of the Department of Electronics and Automation of the University
of Oviedo. Responsible for various initiatives to bring the university closer to schools (Desafío
Alcoa, Sacyr Friendly Competition)
Javier Suárez Quirós - Full Professor Graphic Engineering Area of the University of
Oviedo. Specialist in the elaboration of sonorous maps. METEOSAT
Silvia Alcaraz - Researcher at the Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona, Spain
- research group "Teaching and Virtual Learning". ENGAGE
CONTACTS

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The coordinator will be responsible for developing a CURRICULAR MAP (comparing
common science curricula of partner schools) with the contributions of the partners. Rafael
Montero has previous experience in this task having already participated in the elaboration of
one during the nanOpinion project. This map will guarantee the curricular integration of all the
activities of the project in the school work of some subject taken by all the participating students
The two-year project proposes the realization of four experiences of citizen science
with quarterly duration, two per school year. These Citizen Science experiences will require
preparation and prior work by international student groups that will be held monthly online
through the eTwinning platform, resulting in mobility in the completion of this work by the
students and the moment in that the groups produce final products or draw conclusions
according to practice and come into direct contact with the researcher or the university center
that has supported them in their realization. In addition, and in order to promote scientific
vocations, each partner organizes workshops and didactic visits to research centers during the
week of mobility.
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?

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In each transnational mobility, countries with mobilities in the school year will program their
Citizen Science experience through an INTEGRATED DIDACTIC UNIT (UDI) in
English that will be uploaded to the TwinSpace and will be disseminated. Each partner should
manage, with the support of the coordinator, the implementation of the same to the students
and visiting faculty during the monthly online work meetings and mobility in their country. To do
this, in addition to the help of all partners and experts who have already been contacted, will
have a script prepared by the coordinator:
1. INDEX
2. UDI PLANNING: Introduction, courses, subjects, contents, evaluation criteria, learning
standards, links with basic competences. All from the common curricula found thanks to the
CURRICULAR MAP.
3. DEVELOPMENT: TASKS AND ACTIVITIES: Organization of each session, objectives to be
achieved, size of groups, materials, evaluation, reinforcement activities, extension activities
4. TEMPORALIZATION
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?

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1. PROBLEM OF ENGINEERING: Using stationery materials have to devise a
mechanism to transport a material (forexpan flakes) 1 meter away. The students investigate
during the quarter, guided by the coordinators on different types of mechanisms and the loads
and resistance of materials and work different possible configurations. During the mobility each
group has 1h to make their machine and a competition is made to see who carries the most
material - Hilario López (UNIOVI)
2. ASTEROID DETECTION - In collaboration with the University of Hawaii Astronomy
Institute, each group receives sets of images from the night sky of the STARRS Pan
(Haleakala) telescope. Teams receive information on how they can use the Astrometric program
to locate and measure asteroids, investigate their effects throughout Earth's history, and
physical and mathematical concepts that control their movement. During the mobility the teams
present a final product - Patrick Miller (UNIV HARDIN)
3. WATER POTABILIZATION - The students know about water purification concepts
(pH, chlorine level) and measures them, investigates the urban water cycle and pollutants and
produces a final product during mobility - Fermín Serrano (IBERCIVIS)
4. PROGRAMMING - Students learn the basics of the code and how LEGO ROBOTIX is
programmed. Each group participates in diverse competitions like ZERO ROBOTIX or Astro Pi
Challenge. In mobility, they must program a robot to solve a problem - Antoine Hubert (ESA).
5. SOUND MAP - Using applications developed at Univ. Oviedo, students measure sound
and draw a sound map - Javier Suárez (UNIOVI)
SOME EXAMPLES OF TEACHING UNITS

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- Teacher searchs for CS activity
- Activity done with own students
- Validated activity sent to partners (Did. Unit)
- At mobility students present results

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https://aqua.ibercivis.es/#!/project

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http://noise-planet.org/index.html

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http://iasc.hsutx.edu/index.html?

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All will be public and uploaded to the TwinSpace
1. CURRICULAR MAP
2. INTEGRATED DIDACTIC UNITS
3. WEBINAR CITIZEN SCIENCE IN GROUP STEM ETWINNING - At the end
of the project, there will be a final activity of dissemination of Citizen Science and the activities
carried out by the partners in the eTwinning network through a Featured Event. which will be
recorded for later distribution. Rafael Montero as moderator of the eTwinning STEM Featured
Group will organize and present it with the participation of the other partner teachers.
4. EUROPASS
5. QUALITY SEALS - The project aims to obtain national and European eTwinning quality
labels. Obtaining will also allow to certify each center with an eTwinning School seal. These will
not only recognize the quality of the project but also contribute to the diffusion of the project and
make its products visible.
6. PUBLICATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINES - In collaboration with Rosa
Doran and Silvia Alcaraz, the results of the project will be used for the elaboration of articles.
7. OTHERS - In each of the short-term mobilities and transnational meetings foreseen in the
project, minutes will be generated to collect the adopted agreements and various surveys that
will evaluate the quality of the project and the degree of achievement of the objectives of the
project between students and participating teachers.
PROJECT TANGIBLE RESULTS

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1. Creation of a network of centers, universities and research organizations with common
interests that establish synergies to further develop projects in the future, in particular, to
continue this project through a KA201 project.
2. The staff of the participating centers will know and incorporate into their teaching practice the
Citizen Science, through its use the faculty will increase the motivation of the students to study
the science subjects, thus reinforcing the profile of the faculty and their motivation and
professional development.
3. Improvement of basic competences (mathematics, science and technology) and transversal
(entrepreneurship, digital and linguistic competence) among the students of the reference
classes. The participation of students in the activities of the project in a synchronous way
(attending mobilities, conducting videoconferences, participating in activities with other students
from other countries, etc.) and asynchronous (carrying out the activities programmed in the
didactic units in its center) is expected to produce an improvement of its competencies and
scientific vocations as well as a change of attitude towards the CTIM materials. This
improvement will be measured by the surveys that the students should carry out as detailed in
the Project Management section.
PROJECT STRATEGIC RESULTS

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Objective – In order for all activities belonging to the project to be curricular for the
participating students, we need to share our STEM curricula to detect the similarities among our
educational systems.
Students are 15-16 years old first year of the project and 16-17 on the second. We need to get
the curricula our curricula (contents) of STEM subjects for those two years and search for
similarities.
Curriculum map
SUBJECT TEACHER RESPONSIBLE
MATHS RAFA
CHEMISTRY CELINE
PHYSICS JAKUB
BIOLOGY KARIN
TECHNOLOGY/ICT JAKUB
GEOLOGY/GEOGRAPHY MARTINA

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Step 1 – Each of us searches the curricula of their students and locates the STEM Subjects for
the two years of duration of the project. Google translates the contents (only a broad view, no
fine tuning is needed) and sends it to the appropriate responsible who looks for matches in his
subject.
Step 2 – The coordinator receives the input of the teachers and creates the curriculum map
that will allow to contextualize all activities of the project throughout its two years. Coordinator
asks the other teachers for additional info. The objective is to produce something similar to:
Curriculum map
https://issuu.com/nanopinion/docs/d_4_1_s
chool_mapping_report_final

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Read the Project.. carefully
Communicate with partners
Give Project and Quality evaluation to partners
Annalize the budget
Talk to Management and the Educational Community
Organize the working team
Read with the Management the Grant Agreement

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WHEN? Dates and process for logo contest
Prior to spanish mobility?

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12.00-12.30 Coffee Break at Moka (http://www.mokaconfiteria.com/)

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ES – W4
BE- W16
Proposals for first year

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https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/es/home

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1. Minutes and Signature Sheet
2. Certificates of Attendance.
3. Satisfaction Survey (will be
sending it by email)
14.00-14.30 Administrative Routines

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14.30-16.00 Lunch at Dquini (http://www.dquini.com/) (http://bit.ly/1G6SNXx)

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