Students in international groups create an infographic about topic "We in numbers"
Students in international groups created infographics on topics: economics, education, sports, climate and culture. Students searched for topic data and compared the countries of co-operation. Students presented infogramms and teachers helped find ways to improve the outcome of the task. Internet site https://infogram.com/ was used to create the infographic.
CLIMATE; CULTURE; ECONOMY; SPORTS; SCHOOL.
Teachers called students to find mistakes for improve performance.
Icebreaking activities and getting to know the school in Latvia
The activity was organized as an orientation around the school. The activity was organized with the help of https://en.actionbound.com At first pupils in international groups (one pupil from each country) got to know each other, discussing what is common to them and what is different. As a common thing students mentioned the interest in participating in sporting activities, the fact that they like music, animals and studying at school. But the differences were language, culture and free time activities. Doing this activity students learned about school and state history and geography. They also learned the thing what is important in the project: information about school curricula and the school environment (cognitive trail). One of the tasks was to create a comparative video about mountain peaks from countries of co-operation. Here's a video (as a graph) which students created -
Orientation- Getting to know the history and culture of Jelgava.
Students in international groups got to know the history and culture of Jelgava, using tablets and the ActionBound. Students had tasks, for example, on the 3rd floor of the Jelgava Holy Trinity Church to get a certificate on history issues or on the 5th floor to try on Latvian folk costumes and take photo.
Presentation of our Secondary School and of French education system (French pupils)
Our students presented our Secondary School and the French education system as far as scientific students are concerned.
This included the results of a survey about the activity areas our students will study/work in once they have left our school. Our students also included a presentation on what professions could be in 20 years’ time.
The same persons as for the first part of the morning were present.
It made our students work on presentation including infographics and it obliged them to make synthesis from various kinds of data.
Indoor football – “tea time” – School Party - Games
This activity also included all our boarding students. Therefore, foreign students got to know other students from vocational and technology sections. They were numerous to play board games together until 11pm. Mixing students from different backgrounds went well and it helped all of them to make some efforts to be understood by the others. They could also choose the activity they liked most. A lot of them chose to play board games leaded by different members of a gaming association (including a mathematics teacher).
WarsawOldTown City Game
Students took part in a city game about the Warsaw Old Town, where they had to find the most popular places near Warsaw's Old Town. Teachers observed students' actions and took the answers from students.
Link to the WarsawOldTown city game map
Link to the WarsawOldTown city game rules
The task in the Copernicus Science Center
The students explored the experimental zone’s exhibits to observe STEM in everyday life during the visit to the Copernicus Centre in Warsaw. According to the task they experimented on their own, studded and checked the validity of their conclusions.
Lint to task in the Copernicus Science Center
Students worked in international groups and developed innovative tools.
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