The two-year project “Video game for moral education and STEAM development” (MORALSTEAM) has just ended. A video game MORALSTEAM during the project was created – it is the intellectual product that can be accessed by connecting virtually through a link. During the game, children collect virtues – points, and solve moral dilemmas related to STEAM topics, and have the opportunity to motivate classmates, and to ask the teacher question. The merit of the game is adaptation in moral education lessons, during classroom lessons, social education, mother tongue and other languages (English, Lithuanian, Italian, Bulgarian) lessons, as well as STEAM lessons (nature, mathematics, IT, arts, etc.).
The created video game has reference books – a systematic description of virtues (“Encyclopedia of Virtues”) and research information on students’ knowledge.
“Encyclopedia of Virtues” is a list of virtues with descriptions, adapted to students’ understanding, useful for teachers, helping to prepare for lessons, collecting interesting materials for children. The material is selected taking into account the principles of spiral and concentricity, systematized according to the classification of Ch. Peterson and M. Seligman. The material is based on a study of children conducted in three countries according to the recommendations of students, teachers and researchers, i.e. based on a common European approach. The handbook is innovative, universal, applicable in STEAM subjects lessons, moral education and other lessons, as well as classroom lessons, non-formal education.
Video game for moral education and STEAM development (MORALSTEAM) – Erasmus+ project, that deals with a problem at schools, how to increase students’ interest in STEAM items, educating universal values, necessary for successful further education, professional and social activity. Project coordinator – association “Planet alive” (Lithuania), project partners – UAB “Tag of Joy” (Lithuania), ELA (Italy), ASPECT (Bulgaria). The main goal of our project – to create effective open code tools for moral education and STEAM development for 10-14 y.o. pupils.
Link to the game: https://gyvojiplaneta.lt/moralsteam/
More information about project, and about created material, and video material from dissemination activities you can find truth this link: https://gyvojiplaneta.lt/tag/moralsteam-video-zaidimas/
Game presentation in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XadOdoltk8
Projects and created tools presentation conference video in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bm0s2zOcpU
Prepared by project manager Loreta Valuckienė
