MORALSTEAM - Video game for moral education and STEAM development – is the newly approved Strategic Partnership by Planet Alive in which ELA is partner which aims to increase students' interest in STEAM topics (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics), while training them to Moral Education. 

​The main expected result from project activities and dissemination, besides a high level of participation and positive rating of the video game and methodological material by the students and teachers involved, is to increase pupils’ interest and level of achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics, and to educate them to values and virtues that are necessary for successful further education, professional activity and social involvement.

Project Overview

Project info

Action: Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships for school education
Duration: 2020-11-01 - 2022-10-3

Themes addressed

Innovative practices in a digital era, moral education, STEAM development

Partners of the project

Association Planet Alive (Lithuania); Tag of Joy JSC (Lithuania); ASPECT - Management And Intercultural Relations (Bulgarian); Erasmus Learning Academy (Italy) 
In order to reach the main objective of the project, the partnership will create and develop two Intellectual Outputs specifically designed for 10-14 y.o. pupils to enhance their interest in STEAM topics and Moral Education.

O1: Decision-making video game

A tool where children will solve moral dilemmas related to STEAM themes, fueled with facts and questions requiring pupils’ choices aimed at collecting value-points. Video games putting players in the role of decision-makers push learners through hard challenges, engaging them in experimenting different ways of learning and thinking.

O2: Encyclopaedia of values

An innovative and versatile manual that will consist in a list of values with description, tailored to pupils’ understanding, and in a collection of teaching materials useful for teachers when creating lesson plans and structured based on the principles of spiral and concentricity. The materials available will be based upon the research conducted in the three countries involved, and will take into account the recommendations of pupils, teachers and researchers, i.e. based on a common European approach. 

What's going on in the project?

Moralsteam Multiplier Event

On 24th October 2022, the MORALSTEAM conference was held, where national and international participants got to know the project outcomes (the video game, the Encyclopedia of values and the research results) and how to access and reuse them in their educational practices. Fruitful discussions emerged in relation to the use of games in education and the importance to foster moral and virtue education in the National curriculum.

 Final research results

The game testing phase into the partner countries allowed over 600  children aged 10-14 to play the game and give the project partners their feedback. The research allowed the partners to investigate the potential effectiveness, the usability and user satisfaction in playing the game. The overall results showed a highly positive outcome and the likelihood the game will be used and re-used by teachers for moral dilemmas learning and value acquisition in the classroom.

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The videogame was released!

The video game for children 10-14 years old was released and is available in 4 languages (EN, BG, IT, LT) providing a gamified learning experience for exploring value education and moral education together with knowledge on STEM topics. Children can go through several challenges and moral dilemmas related to STEM topic, e.g. healthy food, constellations and much more! Test it at this link https://tagofjoy.lt/share/moralsteam/build-2022-04-15/

 Discover the Encyclopedia of Value

The "Encyclopedia of value" is now available and ready to be used! It contains a list of values with descriptions, whose language is adapted to the understanding of  pupils aged 10-14, providing useful material for lesson planning. The manual is innovative, versatile, and adaptable in STEAM subject lessons, moral education and other topics, as well as in non-formal settings.

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2nd Transnational Project Meeting​

The second meeting of the Moralstream project took place online on November 3rd.
​The purpose of this meeting was presenting and discussing the first version of the videogame. The game mechanics  is simple and effective with cartoonized characters. The storyline of the game changes according to the player's choices, which are based on the theory of spiral dynamics. This means that choices are formulated matching and respecting a wide spectrum of virtues affecting players‘ choices.

Moralsteam first steps
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The firts transnational project meeting took place on Zoom on December 15th, 2020. The partners discussed the aim of the project activities, namely to increase students' interest in STEAM subjects, while educating them to universal values. The first important project activity will be to organize a school research to investigate interesting topics for students, based on which the content of the video game will be adjusted.
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