Description of the project:
Within this project we would like to enable project teams to get introduced to different countries culture, to share their experience and emotions. We would also like to combine 21st and 20th century skills.
Aims:
- To improve 21st century skills, mainly communication skills, writing (letters, postcards, descriptions, story), listening, reading
- To improve ICT skills and use them efectively within the project work (logo)
- To share teaching methods
- To share learning methods
- To share students ´ and emotions feedbacks after online lessons based on shared materials
- To improve art skills
- To learn about other cultures, countries, social background
- To develop problem solving skills
- To develop presentation skills
Tools:
All in eTwinning
Languages: English, Russian
Number of stds: 15+
Subjects: history, English, Art, Social studies, music, ICT tools
Activities:
- Icebreaking activity: we are going to use Padlet or Thinglink or Jigsaw puzzle, Zeemaps to introduce project teams, schools and countries. Students prepare a quiz about their country for partners and a quiz about their partner country based on research
- Students will be informed about netiquette
- Students will write their profile in Twinspace: favourite subjects, likes/dislikes, expectation from this project
- Students will be divided into international teams
- Students will prepare instruction about making unknown object which will be done by partner teams. (reusable material and instructions), photos and videos will be made. At the end of this activity author team will reveal the real picture of the subject
- Teachers will agree on the topic and share materials they usually use and also the methods if possible we can also try to have online lesson.
- Based on this lesson students will have to work on a task in the international teams
- Students will share their learning habits and inspire their peers via sharing them. Then they will evaluate or just comment on this new experience
- Before Christmas we will prepare a quiz about national Christmas traditions and we will design and make X-mas postcards and little presents which will be sent to partner schools in the middle of December. Teachers will make a video monitoring of natural emotions while preparing the box for partners and while opening the one received.
- Communication on Forum – chatting about X-mas time (grammar, vocabulary practising)
- Multilingual dictionary
- E-book
- evaluation
Timeline: October – icebreaking activities,meeting teams, profiles, logo, presentation of school, towns, countries
November – making onknown object
December – making X- mas postcards and little gifts for partners, sending them by post, video
January – communication on Forum
February – multilingual dictionary
March – online lesson
April – working on outcomes
Outcomes: videos, e-book, postcards, making unknown object, posters, slideshow
Feedback – google form, Word cloud
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