A project aiming to help students realize how a Museum is helping preserving cultural heritage and how we , students and teachers, can create a virtual museum helping us to be part of our European past, realize our present status and create a common future, based on understanding, tolerance and sharing. We will focus on Greek and Latin heritage.

• Subjects: Art, Classical Languages (Latin & Greek), Cross Curricular, European Studies, Foreign Languages, Geography, History, History of Culture, Language and Literature
• Languages: EL - EN
• Pupil's age: 14 - 17
• Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, Forum, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Web publishing
• Aims: Develop students’ abilities in describing objects, interpretating their meaning, understanding their social, political and historical context. Motivate them to have... read moreDevelop students’ abilities in describing objects, interpretating their meaning, understanding their social, political and historical context. Motivate them to have a closer look in their country’s past and the culture of their partners’ countries. Integrate the activities in the curriculum and help less active students participate with easily completed tasks. hide
• Work process: - Each student will have to complete at least one “item card” in which a museum item will be documented.... read more- Each student will have to complete at least one “item card” in which a museum item will be documented. The documentation can be: a picture of the item, a brief description, its meaning and importance, its location, its itinerary through time and space.... all of the above will form a “biography” of the item. Each school will have a Museum Room in Twinspace where all the items will be displayed. We can also use a google map where the location of each item can be tagged and watch their mobility and meaning for the European culture. - At the same time in the classrooms, a printed form of the “item card” could be attached on a map hang on the wall updated every time new items are added. - A comparison can be made between the countries focusing on how and why objects represent fragments of the human history. hide
• Expected results: Students and teachers will form a general idea of the European culture and the importance of each country. They will... read moreStudents and teachers will form a general idea of the European culture and the importance of each country. They will learn how to improve basic abilities (text writing, web search, use of simple ICT tools) and how to achieve more elaborate aims (realizing their European identity, the importance of the civilization of their countries and their position in history in the making). At the same time, ideas will be shared, opinions exchanged, people will know each other better, extra motivation will be having fun in preparing their “item cards” and communicating with their partners. I suggest our “moto” could be: keep it simple! Simple, easy, fun tasks are eagerly completed and our students will have the joy to see the project develop step by step and feel that partnership and collaboration can lead to wonderful educational experience hide

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