Activity: Students observe and summarize news about partner countries in their national media

  • Activity: Students observe and summarize news about partner countries in their national media

    Date: 1st-31st March 2019

    Topic: “Pupils review media coverage of the project partners”

    Place: School - Computer lab - Home

    Teams: 4 teams - 1 per country

    Result(s):

    A blog displays a press follow up in an Erasmus+ project about media. (https://erasmusheadlines.blogspot.com/)

    Activity Goals

    •  
    • Gain social skills.

    Aims

    • Breaking Stereotypes.
    • Critical thinking.
    • More efficient Internet searching
    • Learn to work in teams.
    • Improve English language skills.

    Resources/Materials

    • Internet media.
    • Newspapers.

     Procedure (locally at each school)

    • At each school, students are divided into 3 teams.
    • Students from each team observe and summarize news about a specific partner in their national media during March 2019. 
    • Each team chooses the articles they want to publish in the blog.
    • After having made a summary and a translation in English, they post the article in the blog.