Let’s discover our European natural and cultural environment on a regional and national level, our resemblances and differences. This work in common leads us to feel European and to discover our place and part in the world. Thus we realise our life is linked to the Earth.

• Subjects: Art, Astronomy, Biology, Drama, Geography, History, History of Culture, Language and Literature, Mathematics / Geometry, Music, Natural Sciences, Politics, Technology
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 14 - 19
• Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, Forum, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...), Web publishing
• Aims: Use ICT in various and different ways, and put ICT at the disposal of pedagogy: ICT, being a tool to... read moreUse ICT in various and different ways, and put ICT at the disposal of pedagogy: ICT, being a tool to make the most of what the pupils learn at school. The following ICT activities are a means for pupils to transmit what they have learnt and searched to the partner schoolmates: - to establish exchanges between partner schools by mail, forums, educational chats - to create an interactive webmag and a site in common - to put into practice what the pupils have learnt in ICT classes (PowerPoint, Windows Movie Maker works) - to create ICT games (quizzes, crosswords, texts with blanks, web quest ...) with Hot Potatoes - to produce objects such as CDs, booklets, calendars... -Use foreign languages learnt in class as a tool of communication: the pupils - send themselves information necessary to the project and exchange opinions - create games and web quest about the topics of the project - write articles for the webmag and interviews, web pages for the site - write definitions in the foreign language of keywords necessary for the project to create a multilingual, thematic dictionary -write and invent a story in common -Discover and transmit one’s own culture: the pupils - take photos of their own surroundings and therefore learn how to look around them, finding out what can be interesting for foreigners - think out and make interviews to people working in their schools, to their town halls, to associations in their towns hide
• Work process: During the 1st step, the pupils study and compare their natural and cultural environment on a regional level. It helps... read moreDuring the 1st step, the pupils study and compare their natural and cultural environment on a regional level. It helps them to conceive “European items” out of their regional diversities, to define what is a “European specificity”, to make them think how to improve their own regional environment by comparing what the solutions brought about by the regions of the other partner schools. During the 2nd step, the pupils study and compare their natural and cultural environment on a national level in order to understand how the other countries this environment. They study how, by analysing the similarities and differences of their countries and languages, they can be united in a European identity During the 3rd step, the pupils study the place of Europe in the world - how to be European with the similarities and differences of their natural and cultural environment, can help cross borders! They study how Europe has, in some ways, influenced the natural and cultural environment of the world and learn how countries and continents are connected to each other. ICTs will be a t the centre of the project since echanges will be made by educational mail, forums, chats and will enable the pupils to create a webmag, a website, a pack of “Happy Families” cards, a snakes and laddres game, musical CDs, calendars, booklets made in common. The topics and activities correspond to the school schedules and cover most of the different subjects taught in the different partner schools. hide
• Expected results: European countries seem to get close to each other as they have a common interest - Terr@ nostra, vit@ nostra,... read moreEuropean countries seem to get close to each other as they have a common interest - Terr@ nostra, vit@ nostra, that is to say that our life depends on the care we take of our planet. The map shows the new topics studied by the pupils in the school subjects concerned and debated upon during chats and forums in foreign languages: hide

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