Project: Play with my country

Project: Play with my country

AGE GROUP

Primary school, 8-11 years old

PARTNERS INVOLVED

as many as possible (between 5 and 10)

TIME

Whole school year

MAIN SUBJECTS

Geography, English Language (EFL), ICT

LANGUAGE

English and native languages

TOOLS USED

Twinspace, Google Docs, Kizoa, PowerPoint, Prezi, PowToon, Animoto, Padlet, Kahoot!, LearningApps, Surveymonkey, Tricider, Answergarden…

DESCRIPTION

This project aims to compare geography, cultures, languages… of the partners’ countries and communicate with students from other countries. Students will create a blog where to post messages and simple presentations on several aspects of their country, they will create also online games about geography, culture, food, sports… to test their partners’ knowledge about their country. Some games will be created collaboratively by students of different countries. A mascot will be travelling from school to school. The mascot will be in each school between 15 and 20 days, collecting postcards and messages of each partner’s country , then it will go to the next school according to the schedule which will be published on the project’s TwinSpace (at the end of the project students will have all collection about every partners’ country)

AIMS

1)    Increase students’ knowledge of each own country.

2)   Develop students’ knowledge of some of the cultural features of the partners’ countries;

3)   Increase students’ knowledge of language and cultural diversity in the EU;

4)   Help students feel part of the EU diversity of cultures;

5)   Help students compare their culture with the partners’;

6)   Develop a sense of belonging to an European citizenship;

7)   Develop students' creativity

8)   Increase motivation to communicate in English;

9)   Develop oral and written English skills;

10) Develop ICT skills through the use of different softwares and platforms;

11)  Learn how to use the Twinspace

12) Develop collaborative skills.

13) Develop students’ critical thinking through the project evaluation.

WORK PROCESS

The project will include 9 main activities:

●     introducing each other;

●     creating an online blog

●     getting information about their country;

●     creating presentations about several aspects of their country;

●     creating online games to be played from partners

●     creating online games collaboratively by two or three schools to be played by other partners;

●     viewing presentations made by partners (and learning about their country);

●     playing games made by partners;

●     evaluating the project.

FINAL PRODUCT

A blog made collaboratively by all partners' schools containing all the presentations and all the games made by the students

DISSEMINATION

Link to the blog of the project in each schools’ website.

Presentation of the blog to parents.

Publication of the project and of the main activities in local newspapers.