The Mapping Phase was three-stages long but it was also creative and productive.

Stage A (accumulating material & presenting problems)

Using field research, interviews & questionnaires, cameras, tablets and other devices, the students identified problems in the local community.

To present and share the problems with each other, project partners created (see TwinSpace Page "Mapping the problems")

1. eBooks where each problem is described through text and image

2. videos using the photos they had taken themselves while wandering the streets of their neighborhood

3. an Emaze presentation where, apart from text and images, interviews and audio files created during field research are also added

4. following the instructions and advice provided by experts who visited the school, the students made a model city depicting blocks of flats, squares & parks, streets and high buildings

Students have also been creative with problems!

Inspired by local problems, they depicted them through the art of filmmaking

(see TwinSpace Page "Being Creative with problems")

Movie 1: a documentary based on a survey conducted by the students themselves. The film consists mainly of interviews taken with reference to the problem of stray animals

Movie 2: a short film where documentary and fiction elements are blurred aiming at reporting the problems in the local community through a fictitious plot co-created by the children themselves.

Stage B (sharing online)

Time to share! Project students get together on eTwinning Live and, in TGs, they share their work and discuss the problems.

At the end of the online meeting, a long list of problems is produced in the form of a note pod on Adobe Connect (see TwinSpace Page "Problems!Problems!Problems!") 

Stage C (voting)

(see TwinSpace Page, "Which problem is the most important to solve?")

Having presented and discussed the local problems, project students need to make a decision: 

Which problem should be prioritised and solved? 

Project children vote for the problem they consider most important and justify their choice!