The Erasmus+ STEAM-Connect project offers the opportunity to benefit from the synergies between teachers in different national, cultural and social environments. The project aims to connect teachers of different subjects, parents, artists, educators and researchers from different disciplines to develop innovative transdisciplinary workshops and pedagogies together to enhance collaborative STEAM learning for students of all abilities and backgrounds. The STEAM lessons plan below has been developed as part of the STEAM Connect project, and is available for all teachers, parents and educators who are committed to multidisciplinary learning.
Topic: Electric Game
Overview:
In this unit students create a game applying their knowledge about the functioning of an electric circuit. Aim of the game is to match pairs correctly. When a pair is connected correctly a light switches on. The game is based on an electric circuit, that is closed when two elements of a pair are connected with two pointers. Games based on this principle can be found in shops. At the beginning of the lesson some of these are shown to the students. Students have to observe the game and disassemble it in order to understand the functioning principle, using the previous knowledge about electricity and electric circuits. After having understood the functioning principle, students have to create a similar game using simple materials, choosing among those made available by the teacher. Then students ask schoolmates of lower grade to play with their game and test it, giving them explanations about its functioning.
This lesson plan has been developed by teachers of IC2 Sant Agata de Goti (Italy).
STEAM Subject Elements:
• Science: Electricity, electric conductor and insulating materials, electric current
• Technology: Electric circuit
• Engineering: Projecting a game based on an electric circuit
• Arts: Using different materials to create a product. Drawing pictures on the question sheets
• Mathematics: Writing questions and answers about math topics for the quiz sheets
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See more STEAM lesson plans on our STEAM Connect page.
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Coordinator: UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG, www.uni.lu
Partner organizations:
UNIVERSITAT LINZ, Austria, www.jku.at
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO, Italy, www.unito.it
UNIVERZITA KOMENSKEHO V BRATISLAVE, Slovakia, http://www.uniba.sk
Experience Workshop Oy, Finland, www.experienceworkshop.org
