Designing houses of the future with eTwinning
The students of Class F1 completed the eTwinning project entitled “Houses of the Future: from Tradition to Sustainability”, where they collaborated with schools from Turkey, Georgia, Italy, the Czech Republic, Spain and Greece.
The project falls under STEAM Education for Sustainability by guiding students to work towards achieving the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The design of the activities incorporates the results of the Erasmus+ Accreditation 2023-1-EL01-KA120-SCH-000190187 for enhancing equal learning through the application of collaborative, inquiry and creative learning practices and the extensive use of digital tools.
Focusing on traditional and modern house building, materials, building techniques and energy management, the collaborating classes worked in mixed groups (Goals 5 and 10) to discover through interdisciplinary projects more economical ways of building houses (Goals 1, 4, 8, 9) that meet the daily needs of their residents (Goal 3) without a negative impact on the environment (Goals 6, 7, 11, 12 and 13).
Initially, the classes implemented an introductory activity using an AI application through which they can create a text-based animation with sound.
Then, they carried out field research regarding traditional ways of building houses, while using AI applications. Based on their research, they created a video presentation highlighting the architecture of their places of origin.
The students also completed online quizzes that were created to support their learning about the information gathered in the presentation, in order to get to know the place of their partners better. In addition, they worked together to create a collaborative story around building environmentally friendly sustainable housing using modern materials and technologies and discussed regarding individual elements of the story and what they learned in order to complete it.
Through the activities of the project, the students learned about architectural traditions, learned about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and looked for ways to create housing that is environmentally friendly, while discovering information about both the different professions involved in building housing and the techniques and materials that can be used.
