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КИРИЛИЦАТА И STEAM ОБУЧЕНИЕТО

Тодорка Глушкова, Ирина Кръстева
Пловдивски университет „Паисий Хилендарски“, Пловдив

THE CYRILLIC LETTER AND STEAM EDUCATION

Todorka Glushkova, Irina Krasteva
Plovdiv University ”Paisii Hilendarski”, Plovdiv

* Авторите изказват благодарност към научен проект ФП25-ФМИ-010 „Иновативни интердисциплинарни изследвания по информатика, математика и педагогика на обучението“ към НПД на ПУ”, за частичното финансиране на настоящата работа, за частичното финансиране на настоящата работа.

Abstract: The article presents an approach to implementing interdisciplinary project-based STEAM education in grades 6–7 with the main topic „The Cyrillic Alphabet“. The project integrates knowledge and skills from various academic disciplines – Bulgarian language and literature, history, mathematics, computer science, fine arts, and digital technologies. The main idea is to transform a text from modern Bulgarian to historical Cyrillic, as published in Petar Beron’s ‘The Fish Primer’ Textbook, and then encode the letters using color models and visualize the results as symmetrical figures in Python. The pedagogical grounds for using such STEAM projects, their connection with the development of key competencies, and the possibilities for integrating cultural heritage into programming and mathematics education are examined.

Keywords: STEAM education, interdisciplinarity, project-based learning

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