Embracing our European cultural heritage - “United in diversity”
Objectives
1. To foster cultural diversity and tolerance by focusing on European heritage in our respective regions. Topics are history, architecture, music, museums and intercultural learning. Students increase their knowledge on their European identity and reflect upon it.
2. Self-guided learning, planning and creating different products enable our students to increase their competences. They form and develop academic skills and work together in teams within the project. They increase their confidence as well and they learn to trust in their abilities and skills.
3. Language skills are promoted and language barriers are overcome by getting to know other cultures. Everyone involved improves their academic language related to history, architecture, music, museums and intercultural learning.
4. Digital competence is increased. Students will create an app and decide on the items they want to upload.
Results: The end product will be an app as an intercultural travel guide.
Expected results
The end product will be an app as an intercultural travel guide for our regions highlighting our European cultural heritage. For this, students focus on larger topics in different phases of the project: history, architecture, music, museums and intercultural learning.
Students stay closely in touch with their international partners in-between exchanges, share and work on their products and give feedback via TwinSpace. In general, the products that will be created include a mind map, a cartoon, a project logo, a presentation, an audio tour on our cities, role plays, posters, podcasts, a wall newspaper, a website, a flyer, a survey, a virtual reality expedition, a collage, a video, a leaflet and QR codes. Material for teachers (e.g. worksheets on various topics such as "How to create an app") will also be prepared and made available for everyone. All results will be shared within our school community and thus influence students and teachers who do not participate as well.
Planned activities
| month | activity |
| September 2019 | introduction to our topic questionnaire for teachers and students |
| October – November 2019 | parents-teacher conference Logo competition Erasmusdays preparing a guided tour in our home town/ preparing a presentation |
| December 2019 | 1st short-term exchange in Germany |
| January – May 2020 | reflecting on the first exchange creating podcasts for our app (coronavirus crisis: work will be continued next school year) digital celebration of the Europe Day |
| June 2020 | 2nd short-term exchange in Poland (coronavirus crisis: was cancelled) |
| September – December 2020 | working on our app (topics: museums, food, drinks, language, architecture, music) Erasmusdays parents-teacher conferences European capitals of culture |
| January – May 2021 | culture quiz video on our European cultural heritage research on World Heritage Sites celebration of Europe Day |
| June 2021 | 3rd short-term exchange in Spain (coronavirus crisis: was cancelled) |
| September – December 2021 | interviewing foreigners from our area Erasmusdays parents-teacher conferences |
| January – May 2022 | videos on our European cultural heritage celebration of Europe Day podcasts |
| June – July 2022 | evaluation and dissemination |