Aims of the project:
- improving digital and media literacy
- encouraging students to be physically active
- taking care of children`s mental health
Duration of the project: 20 November – 17 June
ACTIVITIES:
1st month – November - partner involvement
Activities until 10 December
- Project presentation– webinar – Zoom meeting
- Presentation of participants–– Paddlet – which teachers participate, school-video – present the school in two minutes
- Send consents
- Design the project logo– until 10 December – voting
- Initial survey – in Forms
- project`s Facebook account, YouTube
- Twinspace
- Celebrating Anti-Bullying Week from 15 to 19 November – Canva poster – Cyberbullying
- 21 November – World Television Day – suggestion: family night in front of the TV - they measure how many commercials there wer
- Monthly evaluation– Mentimeter – Word Cloud
2nd month - December – until 9 January
- Forum – student presentation - short, greeting, how old they are, what they like doing in front of screens (e.g. playing games, revising, watching YouTube videos, watching TV)
- Exchange of letters – each partner gets one school so that the children exchange letters on the topic of Christmas customs in their country or family
- Playing board games with their family – around Christmas – how to prove – take a picture of the board game, hands playing, make a poster in Canva with students` photos
- Monthly evaluation – Mentimeter
3rd month – January until 6 February
- Zoom meeting with the students – meetings between schools – the school we exchanged letters with – exchange of impressions – partners arrange the appointment themselves
- Preparing Safer Internet Day – co-designing the quiz– questions – in Google Docs – in English
- Making an educational video – by topic – how to protect oneself online (elaborate topics) Topics: Cyberbullying, Phishing, Online shopping – put English subtitles
- Creating a board game – online safety – on paper or in a digital tool – send photos and instructions
- Monthly evaluation – Mentimeter
4th month – February – until 6 March
- February – Safer Internet Day – playing the designed quiz –
- Posting videos on project`s Facebook and YouTube account
7 - 13 February 2022 Children`s Mental Health Week
- students color the coloring books (or make their own and then color)
- the teacher emphasizes the positive effect of the focus on coloring, without thinking of the quality of the final result to encourage students to relax without judging their own work
- Every day one student does exercises in the classroom – the teacher takes photos and the students give instructions, make tutorials (poster or video)
- Monthly evaluation– Mentimeter – Word Cloud
5th month - March – until 2 April
- Celebrating Brain Awareness Week – playing sudoku
- Celebrating International Day of Happiness/ International Writers` Day - Describe what a happy life is from your perspective! Investigate how the state`s happiness index is calculated and which countries are particularly highly ranked. What contributes to that?
- Lower grades – happy moment – poster or comic (Canva, Pixton)
- Higher grades – Debate – Topic: happiness? What does being happy mean? - conclusions are recorded or a video with the most important moments is made
- Lower grades – Gratitude tree
Students make their gratitude tree by using branches, vases, pebbles and colored paper. They use the colored paper to cut leaf-like shapes. They will use these shapes to write about the moments, people or things they are grateful for. After 2 (or more) weeks, with the help of the teacher, they will read what they are grateful for or what they have written on the leaves of the class gratitude tree. The descriptions are anonymous, and the students are told in advance that they will read some of the descriptions to share the sense of gratitude with each other.
- Higher grades – Class gratitude box
In class, students decorate the class gratitude box together. In the next 2 weeks (or more, depending on the agreement with the class teacher), they put papers saying what they are grateful for (person, event, feeling) in the box. After some time, they spend one lesson reading their descriptions of gratitude. The descriptions are anonymous, and the students are told in advance that they will read some of the descriptions to share the sense of gratitude with each other.
- Monthly evaluation– Mentimeter – Word Cloud
6th month – April until 8 May
- 2 April – celebrating International Children`s Book Day– My favorite children`s book hero – If I was a hero? – Comic made in a digital tool or drawn on a piece of paper
- 7 April - celebrating World Health Day – make a poster with exercises for children and reasons why they are important
- video tutorial with exercises
- 11 April - International TableTop Day – board game tournament – photos on a poster or a video
29 April - OffLine OnLife – we put the description of the day and suggestions for activities
- partners: Screens are turned off during the whole day. All activities are carried out non-digitally. Students do not use their mobile phones. Parents do not use their mobile phones. A diary of activities is written.
- Lower grades – comic
- Higher grades – essay
7th month – May until 5 June
- Celebrating World Press Freedom Day on 3 May
- Celebrating World Password Day on 4 May
Media Literacy Days - May
LOWER GRADES:
- Secret code – think of a password for the secret code – make a table with special characters
- Use the secret code to write a piece of advice for a good password
HIGHER GRADES
Presentation
- Explore what press freedom means and why it is important. List the positive and negative aspects of the media.
- Find examples of articles or websites that are informative compared to sensationalist ones and find out to whom and how to complain about an offensive or inaccurate article.
- Explore which countries have the biggest problems with press freedom and why. Find out where the Republic of Croatia is in this regard.
Celebrating World Day for Physical Activity on 10 May /International Sports Day on 25 May
ACTIVITY: (higher and lower)
- Challenge – think of five exercises for the Challenge – challenge somebody in the class, make a video – include the parents? Make them do the exercises
- Monthly evaluation– Mentimeter – Word Cloud
8th month – June until 19 June
- Final survey
- Final webinar – at the beginning of June
- Students` impressions – Wordcloud – everybody asks