Reflection about what kind of consumers we are.

• Subjects: Citizenship, Cross Curricular, Economics, Ethics, European Studies, Foreign Languages, History, History of Culture, Informatics / ICT, Media Education, Philosophy / Logic, Religion
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 14 - 21
• Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, Forum, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Web publishing
• Aims: •To analyze students’ spending habits. •To establish comparisons and similarities in spending habits among the students from the other countries.... read more•To analyze students’ spending habits. •To establish comparisons and similarities in spending habits among the students from the other countries. •To compare prices in the countries involved in the project and in Britain. •Analyse the influence of the different currencies in the cost of living of the countries involved in the project. •To be aware of the influence of advertising on our spending habits. •To value the importance of saving as a benefit for the families. •To consider how our spending habits can contribute to a better development of our countries, Europe and the planet. •To get familiar with the right means to be trained as a responsible consumer and ensure a fairer trade. •To know the rights and obligations of the European traveller. •To know about the cultural heritage of the countries involved in the project. •To know about the economic rates of the countries and regions involved in the project. •Get to know the eTwinned countries. •Eliminate prejudices about the twinned countries. •Improve the linguistic competences in English of pupils. •Improve the attitude towards the learning of the foreign language as a means of understanding among different cultures. •Improve students and teachers competences in new technologies. •Doing Meaningful Learning in all the involved subjects. •Carrying on cooperative learning. •Improve the relationship among the students within each school. •Establish relationships among the students of the twinned schools. •Improve the relationship among the teachers and students within each school as they are working in close cooperation. •Strengthen professional and personal bonds among the teachers of each school due to team work. •Establish professional and personal relationships among the teachers of the twinned schools what implies a very important enrichment. •Mutual knowledge of the educative systems of the counties involved. hide
• Work process:
• Expected results: Teachers: •They organize all the activities with their students. •They open folders for their group-classes of students. •They invite new members to the... read moreTeachers: •They organize all the activities with their students. •They open folders for their group-classes of students. •They invite new members to the Twinspace. Each teacher should invite their students. •They place documents in the common folder for the twinned schools. •They write an introducing web with a picture of themselves for the rest of teachers and students to know. Activities for ESO students (14-16 years old): •Sharing information about their spending habits through the Twinspace with students from our partner schools. They will use the Twinspace Web format with a photo. •The shopping basket. To compare prices in the countries involved in the project and in Britain. •Participation in the survey proposed by bachillerato students. •Answering questions proposed by teachers on – line in the forums. •Writing short compositions about their participation on the fair trade project. Activities for Bachillerato Students (16-18 years old): •To analyse spending habits and pocket money: the older students will carry out a survey among the students in our school to detect where they get their pocket money from, how they spend it…The survey will be done on –line and the resulting data will be analysed and conclusions drawn from, they will be shared with our partners establishing the similarities and differences observed. •Web- quest on responsible consumers and fair trade. Activities for Tourism students in Córdoba. Spain (19 and older) and Lund. Sweden (16-18 years old): •Rights and Obligations of the European traveller. •Video on guided tours of the cities of Lund (Sweden) and Córdoba (Spain). For the other countries to know the cities they live in, the tourism students video their guided commentaries on monuments and sights. They will do it in English and send the other countries by ordinary mail if we don't get the permission to make it public in the internet. - They will write compositions about festivals in their countries: Spanish students about Córdoba and Swedish students about Easter in Sweden. -Swedish students will also write about important sights in their city, Lund. hide

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