Geography issue is up Spanish team but of course it will be common work. Students teams will cooperate in transnational teams and they should disscuss everything in forum.
Here all the partners can share some articles, videos or power points "A window to our schools, to see how Geography is worked in our schools.
Moreover, here we can see the icons drawn to illustrate the cover of the magazine.
Cover:
You can see few of the icons that will be used on the cover of the 3td issue of project magazine. They were drawn by ...
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Proposals Cool brains - Geography:
Task for pupils - to find some interesting facts about chosen character (the characters will be written in forum):
In the forum we can see the suggestions of famous people related with Geography . After we will choose one and our pupils will learn more interesting facts about him or her... During the week we will say WHO is the character and the team in charge of investigating and writing the article.
Task for pupils - to find some interesting facts about chosen character (the characters will be written in forum "Famous people in Geography field"):
Alexandra and Bara wrote their proposals of Czech famous men in Geography field - Emil Holub and Miroslav Zikmund + his friend Hanzelka. It´s up Spanish team to choose one :-) Thanks Eva
Key for writing articles:
Germany - about Greece (Eratósthenes)
Croatia - about Germany (Alfred Lothar Wegener)
Greece- about Croatia (Artur Gavazzi)
Denmark - about Czech (Emil Holub)
Czech - about Spanish (Juan Sebastián Elcano)
Spain - about Danish (Nicolaus Stenos)
OK, it´s time to ask your pupils to find few interesting facts about theses people :-) Don´t write too long texts, please.
A window to "Geography" in our schools:
How do you teach Geography in your school? Can you share with us a special activity or a small article related with Geography?
A WINDOW TO GEOGRAPHY IN CROATIA
School in nature – extracurricular class in OŠ Strahoninec, Croatia
Near the end of the school year, our fourthgraders go on a school excursion which we call School in nature. That is an extracurricular form that includes a multi-day trip to visit natural, cultural, historical, sports and technical centers of our country – most often on the coast of our Adriatic sea. The school organizes this trip in order to accomplish certain educational goals and tasks and it provides quality time for students with each other and their teacher before moving on to the fifth grade.
The main goal of this type of extracurricular class is to bind school subjects in immediate reality and the program contains three basic areas:
Educational component includes walks and tours of places, buildings and monuments, field trips or activities on the beach. The goal is to acquaint pupils with our coastal terrain, climate, plants, animals; to find out what people do in that part of country and to get to know the coastal tourism. Each student gets pre-prepared teaching leaflets that help them in learning planned contents. Children also learn how to behave in diferent situations – in bus, in hotel, while sightseeing, in cultural centers and monuments and so on.
Sports activities are mostly swimming and water sports and recreation leans towards exploring and trying out music and traditional games of the area.
In the evening, after dinner, it is time for entertainment. There are, usually, organised theme-parties with games and dancing for children, adjusted to their age and interests.
In conclusion, our School in nature provides fun and educational activities and beautiful memories of completing first educational period.
Window to Geography in Athina School, Trikala Greece
We like Geography a lot, but unfortunately it is taught only once a week. Instead of just reading out of our books, we use several tools, such as maps, projectors and computers. Moreover, we work on assignments, like 3D maps of places we plan to visit.
A Window to Barrufet School- Geography