EuropeanaTech 2023

ARSTEAMapp addresses the challenges of improving the teaching of STEAM disciplines for 12-16 year-olds, offering an innovative approach to establish connections between these disciplines in a meaningful and viable way within the educational context.

The project will develop an augmented reality (AR) educational app that can be used to explicitly reflect on the connections between STEAM disciplines through the analysis of relevant European cultural heritage (sculpture and buildings).

As an example of the app's use, students could scan the façade of a cathedral using tablets or smartphones; next, through a virtual tour, students will discover aspects related to science (type of rock), technology (tools), engineering (successes and failures in its design), mathematics (structure) and art (historical context in which the cathedral was designed and built; social and cultural importance of the cathedral), while making explicit connections between the STEAM disciplines content.

Considering all beneficiaries, ARSTEAMapp provides new theoretical foundations for the didactic transposition of integrative STEAM, in the context of Augmented Reality resources, and aims to give the educational community an easily accessible teaching-learning resource to adopt this educational approach, which can be used in all European schools.

In the session, participants will have the opportunity to examine STEAM components applied on Hagia Sophia, Eiffel Tower, Bran Castle and Prague Astronomical Clock using the app. In addition, by applying these applications to their own students, they can measure their students' knowledge in the fields of STEAM with the questions in the application.