BoW is an Etwinning/Comenius project: we decided to put Comenius and eTwinning together since we needed a safe e-space where our students and colleagues could meet regularly, work together and make friends. We also thought of eTwinning as the ideal space for the development, documentation and dissemination of BoW's activities and results. The project is centered on the image of WATER. BoW addresses the topics of protection of the environment, knowledge and respect of ourselves and others, understanding of differences in geographic, ethnic and social terms. All of our school have to face issues connected with immigration and the sense of diversity: we want our students to understand that all of them have been, and will be, both "hosts" and "guests" at some stages of their lives. Water is path that brings visitors, tourists, friends, etc. We will deal with these topics through the creation of a ’guide book’ between partners, which will be made by the students of the partner schools. The special feature of the book lies in the fact that not only the students who live in the given town will present their place of residence, but all the children who take part in the project will write about their partners' towns. In this way, all of our countries will be introduced by the natives' and the foreigners' point of view. Because we are all natives, and all foreigners, and we all can be seen from many different perspectives.

• Subjects: Art, Citizenship, Design and Technology, Environmental Education, Foreign Languages, Geography, History, Informatics / ICT, Language and Literature, Mathematics / Geometry, Music, Natural Sciences, Physical Education, Pre-school Subjects, Primary School Subjects, Social Studies / Sociology, Technology
• Languages: EN - ES - HU - IT - TR
• Pupil's age: 5 - 14
• Tools to be used: Audio conference, Chat, e-mail, Forum, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Project Diary, Twinspace, Video conference, Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...), Web publishing
• Aims: Our aims are for both pupils and teachers: - get to know more about ourselves and our partners, about our own... read moreOur aims are for both pupils and teachers: - get to know more about ourselves and our partners, about our own country and cultural identity and those of the others - cooperate inside our schools and with our partners - implement or improve teamworking (pupils and teachers!) - develop language and communication competence - feel the necessity to learn languages, thus providing motivarion (again, for both students and teachers) - use ICT tools efficiently/develop ICT competences (digital competence) - promote collaborative learning (both between teachers and pupils, and teachers+pupils) - involve the whole schools and teaching staff in the debate about didactics in the perspective of building European identity - bring European dimension into school curricula - improve the quality of teaching - promote a better knowledge and understanding of European programmes, including LLP - get to know and respect our own environment and that of the others’ in scientific and cultural terms (mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology, cultural awareness and expression) - work actively for a sustainable development of European countries (social and civic competences) - learn through experience, understand and overcome mistakes and dead-ends (learning to learn) - better understand ourselves, our gifts and our weaknesses as well as our ambitions, in order to help teachers fulfil their aims and students find a suitable job in the future (sense of initiative and entrepreneurship). hide
• Work process: All activities have been discussed and shared in the planning of the project. During the two years, teachers and students... read moreAll activities have been discussed and shared in the planning of the project. During the two years, teachers and students of the partner schools will work on the different activities in groups (national and international teams), in order to develop team-work and to foster peer learning. All the steps of the project have been carefully detailed and an activity page has been created for each. We started as usual, by introducing ourselves, and we will go on during the two years working together on the "water" topic, through different media (drawings, music, videos, ICT tools, photographs, etc.). hide
• Expected results: We hope we will reach all of our aims, as well as manage to involve actively families and local communities. We... read moreWe hope we will reach all of our aims, as well as manage to involve actively families and local communities. We will have different products, ideally one at the end of each activity. The cooperative final product will be a travel ebook. hide

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