Students experiment with physics concepts like motion, balance, and rotation during physical education classes. They create videos demonstrating physics principles in different sports to share with international partners. The project aims to improve students' English, ICT skills, and understanding of how math and physics apply to their real lives and sports. Teachers from different subjects collaborate to integrate physics and sports throughout the curriculum.

1. Physical Awareness
Enrica Maragliano
Liceo Classico C.Colombo – Genova – Italy
Maths and Physics teacher

2. Project's short description
During their Physical Education classes
students are experimenting what they
learned during the Physics and Maths
classes, so they can become aware of the
reasons of the motion, the balance, the
rotations and learn to control their body.
When you have fun while you are doing
something, for sure you'll learn more, faster
and better.

3. Where did the idea come from?
● In the last years I carried on eTwinning and
Comenius projects mainly based on Maths,
but this year I felt I had to find an idea
related to Physics, as this subject has
many links to students' real life
● I read a small book (in Italian) – La scienza
nel pallone – about Physics and soccer
and last Summer I watched at television
the presentation of a book about Physics
and ski – E adesso come faccio a
fermarmi?!
● So I decided to go and ask to my P.E.
Colleagues if they were interested in a
project

4. How the project began?
● I explained my idea to my P.E. colleagues and they
were happy to work together on a project about
Physics and Sport
● Students' P.E. book has many pages about the
connections between sports and Physics but we
never realized
● Another Physics teacher in my school agreed with
this idea and also the English colleagues
● So we contacted some partners of a previous
Comenius project and a friend who always invited me
to his eTwinning projects and we founded the project

5. Project's goals
Students:
● practice their English
● learn about other European cultures
● learn about Maths (conics) and Physics (Kinematic,
Dynamic, Fluids) experimenting the laws and the
trajectories during their P.E. classes
● improve their ICT skills
● learn to work and cooperate in international groups
Teachers:
● share knowledges and teaching methods

6. The project steps (1)
● Maths teachers give lessons about conics and
Geometry focusing mainly on the project goals
● Physics teachers give lessons focusing mainly
about interactions with Sports.
● Physical Education teachers point the focus
about the causes and consequences of motion
and physical activity in general
● English teachers help in giving students the
vocabulary of the sport disciplines and of
Physics

7. The project steps (2)
● Students chose their favourite sport and are
working in groups preparing the videos
● Once the films are ready, students will learn
how they can edit them adding graphics
features and comments
● To complete the project, all the links to the
videos and all the project products will be
integrated into a Prezi presentation

8. Which resources or tools are we
using?
● The project is still in progress and so we are
open to use new tools (maybe to some we
learn during this L.E....)
● We liked students cooperate as much as
possible, so we asked them to introduce
themselves then they met during video-
conferences and we communicate mainly using
the TwinSpace

9. Team Introduction tools
● Students introduced themselves with Voki or
Glogster

10. Christmas whishes
They exchanged Christmas whishes by cards,
videos and posts on the WishWall

11. Contacts and games
● Students met some times and they will meet
again. Of course they met virtually during
Flashmeeting videoconferences
● During these meetings they do some activities,
mainly challenging games like puzzles and
crosswords made with Puzzlemaker

12. Cartoons and graphic tools
● Students made some cartoons using
GoAminate and Kerpoof
● They are preparing some images with their
favourite sport words using Tagxedo

13. Inspiration videos
● To help students to understand what they had
to do we found many videos about Physics and
sport on YouTube

14. Students Videos
● To prepare videos we are planning to use
Movie Maker or YouTube. Then the videos will
be uploaded on YouTube.
● Students are making films and in a short while
they will elaborate them

15. Some theory...
● Students are sharing Physics problems involving
some sport situations using their Physics book,
they are learning the connections between
Physics and Sport using their Physics and P.E.
Books. They edit those problems using MS
Office or LibreOffice.
● All their presentations will be integrated in a
single one using SlideShare
● They of course also read some books about
Physics and sports (as the two that lightened my
idea)

16. Final product
The students are working in groups (national and
international) communicating between each other
using mail but also during Flashmeeting video-
conferences. Tasks will be done by every group
but each group will be in charge of publishing one
part of the project: the final goal will be preparing
a Prezi presentation with the collaboration of all
the students involved. Each group of students will
be responsible to edit their part. All the students
will see all the presentations and will learn many
things about the Physics in Sport.

17. Last step
● As last step we planned to organize public
presentations inviting the other teachers,
parents and... of course the partners in video-
conference!

18. What is the impact the project
has on the project?
● Students are more interested during Maths and
Physics classes and are much more aware
about the consequences of their actions. Their
critical thinking is improved
● Students learn much more about ICT and
improve their specific vocabulary about sport
and Physics
● Teachers enjoy working together and sharing
knowledges and teaching methods

19. Has the project enhanced the
learning process?
● For students in general solving Physics problems
is easier, as they have clearly in mind the motion
and its consequences
● For them it is a challenge to solve the problems
proposed by their foreign mates
● They learned the specific vocabulary of Physics
and sports, usually not given in the 11th grade
● They are also learning a lot of ICT, usually not
deepened in Classical Lyceum
● They learn how they can work in group, also
international

20. Conclusions
● Etwinning projects are very useful to improve,
enhance and promote students best attitudes
● One of the keys of the success is
interdisciplinarity: in this way we can involve
more colleagues, working in teams and sharing
the responsabilities and students will see the
same cocepts by many other points of view

21. Transversal objectives
With eTwinning projects we can achieve
transversal objectives often impossible to
obtain with traditional teaching:
● active use of English
● use of new ICT tools
● improved relations among students
● knowledge of different cultures
● learning tied to specific practical and well
defined objectives
● improvement of creativity and self-esteem

22. Resources and references
● http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p92756
● www.voki.com/
● www.glogster.com/
● http://padlet.com/
● http://www.tagxedo.com/
● http://goanimate.com/
● http://kerpoof.com/
● http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net/
● http://www.slideshare.net/
● http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/?CFID=3168572&CFTOKEN=37459322
● http://prezi.com/
● http://connect.garmin.com/