THE NOBEL TEAMS

 

SHORT DESCRIPTION

The project aims at letting students know about the Nobel Prize itself and then know about the Nobel Prizes from their own countries. They will do research work, mostly in a collaborative way, in order to share information and, on the basis of their findings, they will then create impossible interviews, time lines, videos and emagazines. Finally they will also create a phrasebook, in English and in their native languages,  with phrases and expressions related to the topics they have analysed.

The students,will take an active role and will be able to decide to select, modify or include different activities within the general framework of the project. The project is meant to be flexible and motivating for them.

 

AIMS

 

- Enlarging the students’ cultural and scientific knowledge about their partners’ countries

- Boosting the students’ creativity

- Developing the students’ IT skills

- Developing language skills such as writing, speaking, listening, creative writing in the English language.

- Improving teamworking skills by giving the chance to the students ( and teachers) to work in international groups, getting to know

remarkable people from their partners’ countries

 

WORK PROCESS

November

 

Warming up activity: The students create a quiz about the origins of the Nobel Prizes and what they are. Then using Adobe Connect they can do the quiz together and then go deeper by asking each other questions about famous people related to literature, science etc.

December-January

Choosing the Nobel Prizes to work on. National groups prepare a presentation about Nobel Prizes in their country. They also prepare a quiz about them.

February

The students from each country take the quiz and then vote for the Nobel Prizes they will work on.

All the students from the three countries decide the groups and the kind of products they will create: video, talk shows, comic book, etc.

March- April

Transnational groups work on their creation. They also prepare some phrases for the book.

During this period, students could collaborate in forums, a videoconference or any other means so that they can be in touch to share information, ideas…. about how they are doing with their work.

May

All that the students have created is collected on the Twinspace and a site. In a forum they will comment on the works done and ask for further information, if needed.

June

Presentation to the community (school, web page, local newspaper).

Evaluation by students, parents and teachers, and subsequent analysis of the feedback provided for further improvement.