Students and teachers from more then 25 schools, each located in different European country, will collaborate together in order to become familiar with the different cultures of each partner school’s home country through the use of national tradtitions,drama ,arts, songs and dances. Every school involved in this project will first create a PowerPoint presentation on their school and country as well for posting on the eTwinning site. These presentations will then be viewed by students from all schools to provide background information on each partner school. Each school will then present one national tradition through Power point presentation and illustrations created by the students in their art class. All national traditions from all European countries will be published in English language in e-book with students illustrations and share with students ,parents and to local community. Each school will print the e-book and copies of it will be given to the schools and local libraries.Each school will present one national song and one national dance performed by the students in national language and recorded in video file.All video files will be published on the project web site. The partners traditions will be randomly assigned between partners and each school will perform one of the partners traditions in English together with the relevant national song and dance .These performance will be recorded as video file and posted on the project web site to all partners to watch in English classes, and pictures will be taken for posting on the eTwinning site. The age range for the students involved in this project will range from 6 to 12 years old. Teachers and students will be able to communicate and further comment on all aspects of this project via the eTwinning Project Forum and on Google Group,Skype

• Subjects: Art, Design and Technology, Drama, Environmental Education, Ethics, Foreign Languages, Geography, Health Studies, History, History of Culture, Language and Literature, Music
• Languages: EL - EN
• Pupil's age: 6 - 12
• Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, Forum, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Twinspace, Web publishing
• Aims: Students and teachers to learn more about Cultural and language variety in Europe.To build sense of respect in students for... read moreStudents and teachers to learn more about Cultural and language variety in Europe.To build sense of respect in students for differences in peoples life.To provoke students to learn more about Europe through learning about different national traditions,songs and dances.To develop students and teachers language skills and skills for ICT . hide
• Work process: IN September each partners school will present their school and country.The project web page will be created.IN October each school... read moreIN September each partners school will present their school and country.The project web page will be created.IN October each school will choose one national tradition and will present it before partners via power point presentation.Then the chosen tradition will be illustrated by the students in art class in each institution.ILlustrations will be published in the web site of the project.In November each school will present one national song via MP3 file, or video file in national language, performed by the students.All songs will be upload in the project web site and twin space. IN December each school will present one national dance performed by students via video file uploaded in the project web and twin space.In January all partners traditions will be randomly assigned between the partners to be performed together with the relevant national song and dance.All performances will be recorded and published on the project web page and twin space to the end of April.From September 2011 to May 2012 there will be 4 Skype meetings between the partners. Video games about traditions,songs and dances will be created by the partners. hide
• Expected results: The working partners club from more then 25 schools will be created.The e-book with 25 national traditions will be created.CD... read moreThe working partners club from more then 25 schools will be created.The e-book with 25 national traditions will be created.CD album with all partners songs will be created. DVD album with all 25 national dances will be created. 25 performances of different national traditions will be created and published on the project web site for all students and parents to see. hide

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