Erasmus+ Wonder Learning Project

Learn with
Wonder & Curiosity

Explore amazing lessons about science, art and citizenship. Ask big questions, investigate, discover and share what you find.

🚀 Pick a lesson How does it work?
20Lessons
192Activities
5Phases
45minPer lesson
How it works

Simple. Fun. Step by step.

Every lesson follows the same clear path - so you always know what to do next.

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Pick a lesson
Choose from Science, Arts or Citizenship. Each lesson is about 45 minutes.
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Watch & listen
Start with a short video or audio that sparks your curiosity and wonder.
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Investigate
Dive deeper with your group - explore, sort, discuss and find answers.
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Discover
Connect what you learned to your own life and the real world around you.
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Share
Present your ideas, create something, and earn your badge!

What do you want to explore today?

20 free lessons across 6 topics. All for curious minds aged 10–15.

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Science
Light, Colour & the Eye

Why does a prism split white light into a rainbow? Why do we all see colour differently? Discover the science of how your eyes and brain build the world you see.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–15 🧪 11 activities
5 phases
Science · Physics
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Arts
Art, Expression & Human History

Why do people make art? An individual pathway - read a painting slowly, learn what caused a movement to begin, and check an AI tool's answer against a trusted source before making your own.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–15 🎭 7 activities
5 phases
Arts · Visual Literacy
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Citizenship
Democracy & Civic Action

Does democracy actually need YOU? Find out how real decisions get made, spot fake news, and design your own civic action - even as a young person. Your voice counts.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–15 🏛 10 activities
5 phases
Social Studies
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Social Sciences
Different by Culture, United by Respect

If we're all so different - different languages, clothes, traditions - how do we live together at all? Explore real classroom stories, match democratic values to real life, and create your own message of respect for your school.

⏱ 60 min 👥 Ages 11–13 🌍 10 activities
5 phases
Social Sciences · Civic Education
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Arts · ICT
The Right to Re-Invent: Digital Rebirth & Pseudonymity

Millions of people online choose a different name, face, or voice than the one they were born with. Is that deception - or survival? Explore pseudonymous personas, investigate the tools of digital sovereignty in research teams, and design your own protected online identity.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–14 🎭 11 activities
5 phases
Visual Literacy · Cultural Identity
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Arts · Visual Literacy
Art as Survival & Identity

On cave walls painted 17,000 years ago. In museums. In street murals. Why have humans always felt the need to create? Investigate how colour, line and composition communicate across time, research or critique a masterpiece in groups, then create your own artistic response.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–14 🎨 11 activities
5 phases
Visual Literacy · Cultural Identity
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Arts · ICT
Digital Identity as Survival

How do people show who they are online? Explore how layout, colour, symbols and text turn a profile into a voice, build your own Digital Identity Board, then investigate in research teams how ICT protects, promotes, or endangers who we really are.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–14 🛡️ 11 activities
5 phases
Digital Identity · ICT Ethics
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Citizenship · Inclusion
Learning to Include

Look around you - no one is exactly like you. A fully accessible lesson (UDL, high contrast, read-aloud, complete paper version) where learners discover diversity, practise empathy, and build real bridges over the barriers that leave people out.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–15 🌉 3 activities
3 phases
Diversity · Empathy · Action
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Foreign Language · Global Citizenship
Finding My Voice in Another Language

Can people truly understand each other even when they don't speak the same language? Hear greetings from 8 languages, critically test AI translation, investigate in groups, then create and share a cultural message with a future international friend.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–15 🌍 11 activities
5 phases
Communication · Culture · AI Literacy
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Art · Visual Perception
How Do We See and Create Modern Art?

Two people look at the same artwork and see two different things - why? Watch colour and pixels come alive, investigate as an Artist, a Digital Creator, or a Viewer, then create and share an original artistic idea of your own.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–15 🎨 11 activities
5 phases
Perception · Colour · RGB
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Social Studies · Trade · Economics
Money, Trade & Exchange

Imagine money disappeared tomorrow. How would you get what you need? Trade your way through a barter chain, meet strange currencies from history, and discover why humans needed to invent money in the first place.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 9–10 🪙 5 activities
5 phases
Bartering · Money · Value
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Health & Wellbeing · Grade 5
How Can We Build a Healthy and Balanced Day?

Why can two people doing the same activity feel completely different? Follow a fictional pupil through one ordinary school day, investigate as an Energy Detective, a Feelings Investigator, or a Balance Guardian, then build your own Wellbeing Wheel.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–11 🌿 11 activities
5 phases
Energy · Feelings · Balance
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ICT · Grade 6 · Online Safety
How Can We Protect Our Digital Identity?

What can the internet know about a person without ever meeting them? Investigate as a Password Detective, a Phishing Investigator, or a Privacy Guardian, then build your own Digital Shield.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 11–12 🛡️ 11 activities
5 phases
Passwords · Phishing · Privacy
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Arts · AI Literacy · Digital Credit
Who Made This? Art, Authorship and Artificial Intelligence

If a computer paints a picture, who is the artist? Guess which of six images a person made and which a computer did (almost nobody scores above four), learn the five visible tells, trace one image's origin, argue over who deserves credit, then make something and write an honest credit line.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–15 🖼️ 7 activities
5 phases
Tells · Provenance · Credit
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Arts · Colour & Materials · Cultural Identity
The Colours of Where I Live

Your place has a palette. Can you find it? Pick your own street out of three colour palettes with no picture attached, learn the five reasons a place has the colours it has, collect ten colours of your own, and watch them combine live into one class palette - then compare it with a real palette from another country.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–15 🎨 7 activities
5 phases
Palette · Place · Exchange
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Foreign Language · Communication · Spatial Literacy
Lost in the School: Asking for and Giving Directions

A visitor needs the library - which way? Two helpers give conflicting directions. Learn the vocabulary of direction, check an AI-suggested route against a real school plan, then create and share a direction card of your own.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–15 🧭 11 activities
5 phases
Directions · AI Check · Guide
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Foreign Language · Communication · Context
The Mystery of the Mixed-Up Message

"Meet us there at half past two. Bring one with you." Two readers imagine two different places. Discover how asking, checking and confirming meaning can prevent a misunderstanding, test a real AI response against named sources, then create your own Visitor Help Card.

⏱ 45 min 👥 Ages 10–15 ✉️ 11 activities
5 phases
Ask · Check · Confirm
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Sustainability · Consumer Education · SDG 12
Which One Would You Buy?

Four kitchen towels look almost identical. Do they actually perform equally well? Become a one-person consumer-testing laboratory - run four fair tests, fact-check an AI claim about eco-labels, calculate a weighted score, and publish your own evidence-based recommendation.

⏱ 47 min 👥 Ages 12–14 🧪 11 activities
5 phases
Test · Measure · Recommend
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Sustainability · Biodiversity · SDG 15
Does Darkness Need Protecting?

Experience a star-filled night sky, then notice what disappears under artificial light. Choose one investigation path - the Ecologist, the Human Scientist, or the Lighting Designer - fact-check an AI claim, and design an outdoor light that respects the night.

⏱ 46 min 👥 Ages 12–14 🌌 11 activities
5 phases
Investigate · Design · Protect
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Health & Wellbeing · Digital Media
Can You Trust Health Advice Online?

Rate three convincing-but-fictional health posts, learn the 5C Health Check, then choose one investigation path - the Scientist, the Fact-Checker, or the Media Detective - fact-check an AI claim, and build your own health check for other teenagers.

⏱ 47 min 👥 Ages 14–15 🩺 11 activities
5 phases
Check · Verify · Share

Every lesson has 5 phases

We don't just give you facts. We take you on a journey - from wonder to action.

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Phase 1
Anticipation
A wow moment that sparks curiosity before any lesson content begins.
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Phase 2
Encounter
First contact with the big ideas - through stories, videos and interactive slides.
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Phase 3
Investigation
Go deep with your group - research, analyse, create and question everything.
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Phase 4
Discovery
Connect your learning to your own life and the real world around you.
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Phase 5
Propagation
Share your discoveries, present your work and earn your Wonder Badge.

Different ways to learn

No two activities are the same. Each one uses a different format to keep you engaged.

💬 Discussion Share your thoughts and listen to others. No wrong answers.
🎧 Audio / Visual Watch and listen to narrated slides, videos and stories.
🎮 Interactive Drag, sort, click and quiz your way through ideas.
🌿 Eco Workshop Create something real - a poster, petition, or artwork.
✅ Test / Quiz Check what you've learned. Instant feedback - no stress.
Co-funded by the European Union
Erasmus+ Project
Wonder Learning for Digital Natives
Project no. 2024-1-PT01-KA220-SCH-000254381
Our partner institutions across Europe
Project Lead
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Madeira, Portugal
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North Macedonia
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Portugal
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Vienna, Austria
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Bosnia & Herzegovina
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Turkey
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Romania
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Marijampolė, Lithuania