INVITED Talk 1

Webinar “Once upon a STEAM” combining STEAM and storytelling in preschool virtual exchange”

We had the pleasure of having Magdalena Dybiżbańska, an eTwinning preschool teacher, present a webinar for the community. The event had 133 attendees.

This webinar focuses on the non-obvious combination of the STEAM method with storytelling.

Well-known are the numerous benefits of using the STEAM method in the classroom with young learners. STEAM reveals the mysterious world of explorations, investigations, critical thinking skills, decision-making, discussions, and more…. Meanwhile, storytelling, an invitation to enter the imaginative world of various characters, constitutes the never-ending source of STEAM-facilitating events.

In the webinar, I endeavoured to show how the two can be combined to facilitate cooperation between preschoolers in geographically remote countries. This was done by presenting the eTwinning project “Once upon a STEAM”, the laureate of the 2025 National eTwinning Competition. In the project, the preschoolers worked together to solve the problems encountered in the chosen children’s literature. We worked with popular children’s stories: “The Colour Monster”, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, “Father Christmas Needs a Wee”, “Going on a bear hunt”, and “Jack and the Beanstalk”.

 

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