Students and teachers from seven schools, each located in a different European country, will collaborate together in order to become familiar with the different cultures of each partner school’s home country through the use of drama and the arts. Every school involved in this project will first create a PowerPoint presentation on their school as well as their national culture for posting on the eTwinning site. These presentations will then be viewed by students from all schools to provide background information on each partner school. Each school will then translate one national fairytale into English and then post this translated work on the eTwinning site for all partner schools to view. Students from all schools will then read all of these translated stories in their English classes, and teachers will also translate all the stories from English into the school’s own national language. After reading each story in English class, students will draw illustrations of their favorite scenes of the story in art class. Each school will create an exhibition of the students’ art work for the community, including local media, in order to further spread the unique stories from each partner school’s culture. Also at the exhibition, the school will include the written stories from all partner schools in English and in the national language where the exhibition is being held.In addition to learning new fairytales from different countries, students will perform their own national fairytale in English as a play for their family, friends, and classmates. These performances will be recorded on DVD and sent to all partners to watch in English classes, and pictures will be taken for posting on the eTwinning site.All partners will send seven illustrations of the project seven national stories to take part in common partners exhibition.The exhibition will be oppen for first time in Kazanlak,Bulgaria and after that will travel to Pisa,Italy. In January 2010 in Pisa, Italy second exhibition will be open and in the same time there will be a meeting of the partners for discussions of experiences from the project. Students can then watch each school’s performance recorded on DVD by each partners school and also learn what other students from several different countries thought of their national story. The age range for the students involved in this project will range from five to thirteen years old. Teachers and students will be able to communicate and further comment on all aspects of this project via the eTwinning Project Forum and on Google Group.

• Subjects: Art, Cross Curricular, Drama, Foreign Languages, History of Culture, Informatics / ICT
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 4 - 11
• Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, Forum, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Web publishing
• Aims: The project’s primary aim is to motivate students to learn English in a non-traditional, hands-on manner. The project will further... read moreThe project’s primary aim is to motivate students to learn English in a non-traditional, hands-on manner. The project will further benefit students outside of the educational context by providing them an opportunity to contact students from different backgrounds and to create new friendships. The project will also benefit all partner schools and partner countries by exposing their national literature and culture to a wide-ranging and diverse audience. This aim will benefit students by opening their minds to different cultures and by helping them to accept the differences that exist among differing cultures. hide
• Work process: The project will be registered in September. In October, schools will create their school and country cultural presentations and then... read moreThe project will be registered in September. In October, schools will create their school and country cultural presentations and then add them to the eTwinning Project Space. In November, each school will translate its chosen national story in English and upload the translation on Project Space. During November and December, students will read each project school’s story, and create illustrations about each story. Also during this time period, an exhibition will be held at each school displaying the students’ illustrations and the English as well as native language translations of each project school’s story. In January each partner will send seven illustrations from seven partners stories to SOU Ekzarh Antim I Kazanlak,Bulgaria fororganisation of the first exhibition with partners illustrations of chosen national stories. The First exhibition will be open in town library and stay there a week.In January, teachers from all project schools will meet in Pisa, Italy for second exhibition with partners illustrations and for exchange the experiences the students and teachers had in regard to the project. In March, students will then watch each school’s fairytale performance and learn what other students thought about their own fairytale from the teachers that attended the conference in Pisa, Italy. From February to May, each school will perform its chosen native fairytale before students, parents, and the local community in English. These performances shall be recorded on DVD and sent to all partners to watch them in English classes in each school.Photos from the parformances will be uploaded on the Project Space. hide
• Expected results: The project will create strong international friendships between students and teachersvof differing backgrounds where no friendship would otherwise have existed.... read moreThe project will create strong international friendships between students and teachersvof differing backgrounds where no friendship would otherwise have existed. The project will further result in the following:  Seven unique fairytales from each project school translated into every language represented in this project  Exhibitions in each partner’s school displaying eight unique national stories in English and in the language of location where the exhibition is taking place  Seven performances of a school’s national fairytale in English  An photo gallery of each fairytale performance  Seven DVDs of recorded performances which includes a performance from each project school of its own national fairytale  Seven PowerPoint cultural presentations  Seven PowerPoint school presentations  One partners’ meeting in Pisa,Italy  Two common exhibitions with partners illustrations of chosen national stories in Kazanlak,Bulgaria and in Pisa,Italy hide

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