We would like to make colorful windmills with our 11 year old students. While making these windmills students will write words on each leave about ecology, environment and green world.

• Subjects: Citizenship, Environmental Education, European Studies, Foreign Languages, Primary School Subjects, Technology
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 7 - 12
• Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, Forum, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Project Diary, Twinspace, Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...), Web publishing
• Aims: • To engage students’ awareness and intelligence and creativity. Basically, students learn by doing things, living them, not just by reading,... read more• To engage students’ awareness and intelligence and creativity. Basically, students learn by doing things, living them, not just by reading, repeating, writing or listening to them. • To create the fields for students to express themselves. • To transform the unnatural dynamics of our classes into the more natural and motivating dynamics. • To use the language to carry out a task and on a strategic integration. That is to say on communication not as a mere exchange of information. • To improve the individual attitudes of ecological citizenship and gain the awareness of nature. • To increase abilities for co-operating between students and teacher. • To overcome the fears and break the chains in people’s mind and show that we are all brothers and sisters and provide communication between cultures. • To improve the quality of teaching in Europe and encourage better teaching techniques. • To increase the motivation and participation to language learning and increase the confidence in learning foreign languages • To share the scientific qualifications, experiences and ideas with European colleagues. hide
• Work process: In our first step we will make brain storm activities with our students to find the key words about environment... read moreIn our first step we will make brain storm activities with our students to find the key words about environment and ecology. Then we will exchange our words with partner schools and make contributions and suggest as many changes as we consider. Later, each school will analyze their results on their own and the students will share them using the tools provided by twinspace, chats etc… Students can add words and ideas on twinspace whenever they want. After choosing the words we will start to make our colorful windmills. While doing this activity students will share their experiences about environment. They will watch videos about ecology prepared by teachers. After preparing the windmills students will represent them on the e-twinning corner of the school. Finally, all the schools in the project together will write a report with the conclusions and we will attach to such a report the different activities the students would have carried out. The students are eager to meet people from other countries but we expect that such motivation increases as time passes because we want to match them with students from the other schools so that they work together in teams when sharing the work they did by themselves. Also, we will encourage our students to communicate with their friends in their teams as often as they wish to discuss or check any points they have doubts with. hide
• Expected results: At the end of the project students will communicate with their peers from other countries. With this interaction they will... read moreAt the end of the project students will communicate with their peers from other countries. With this interaction they will develop their English language skills, ecology knowledge and computer skills. Also they will improve their motivation to learn foreign languages. Students will present their creations in twinspace and in their schools. They will share these creations with their schoolmates and their peers from other countries. hide

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