TITLEJoin the great mission to love our home: the Earth!
SHORT DESCRIPTIONOur Project is based on some key factors:
Through this project we can help our children to love the Earth and to feel more connected with nature understanding and appreciating the world around us. We will introduce the topic with the help of a book “Dear Children of the Earth, A letter from Home” by Schim Schimmel. It’s a powerful and dramatically illustrated letter from Mother Earth to her children reminding us the responsibility we all have to protect the world in which we live. we can involve our students in a wide range of activities designed to promote creativity, environmental awareness and critical thinking. A more sustainable world requires new ways of living and children are the future generation, but we believe that before “saving the planet” young children must know why it’s important and beautiful, to “love” it and then they can feel motivated to preserve and protect it. Along with the project we will learn to identify and express our emotions, we will discover and learn more about the Earth with art, music and performance art as allies to inspire and support our students’ wellbeing. Children will be challenged to observe and understand the connection between different elements, listening to experts advice, collaborating with other children from different countries with similar interests and motivations, growing their abilities to begin to solve problems creatively and feeling confident to contribute with ideas to their schools and communities. We will answer the question: “what can we do to help save our home?” and we will become aware of respecting, protecting and loving the Earth involving different school areas, teamwork and exploring different ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) to create, share ideas and collaborate. A formative evaluation will be present throughout the process and our project “Dear Earth” is our answer to the letter and our small contribution to the great mission to create a better world. SUBJECTSPhysical education, Arts and Crafts, Music, Foreign languages… LANGUAGEOur language’s countries and English PUPIL’S AGE5-8 ICT TOOLSE-mail, Chat, Project diary, Foro, other software (Powerpoint, video ( kizoa, smilebox, windows movie maker), Voicethread , voki, genially, pictures, collage and drawings, webmix symbaloo, Web publishing, TwinSpace, Video conference Adobe (Twinspace) or,Hangouts or Skype, Collaborative walls (padlet , wallwisher ) , interactive maps (Mymaps google, tripline or others), evaluation charts and surveys using tablets or the Twinspace pages(google formularies, Story jumper ). Partners should propose and explore other ICT tools to create a comic ( toonytool), a magazine (issu, calameo), online quizzes or puzzles (proprof, kahoot…), memes (imgflip), vote (dotstorming) and others. AIMS
WORK PROCESSThe project begins with a letter from “Mother earth” asking for help (“Dear Children of the Earth, A letter from Home” by Schim Schimmel )and ends with our answer and small contribution to help her. We answer the question: What can we do to help the Earth? with monthly tasks divided in three phases: Dear Friends, Dear explorers and Dear influencers. OCTOBER-NOVEMBER- DEAR FRIENDS Netiquette. Presentations. Code Week voluntary activities. NOVEMBER-MARCH `- DEAR EXPLORERS Before helping the earth we need to learn to “ love” it (with music, art…) NOVEMBER TO MARCH Thinking green.Visual “thinking routines” (observe- think -wonder) NOVEMBER Solidarity environmental actions: Calendar(animals in danger) DECEMBER Collaborative song – poems JANUARY Logo FEBRUARY – MARCH Collaborative e-magazine APRIL-MAY – DEAR INFLUENCERS Sensitize other people promoting on social media APRIL Experts – Online meetings–games-spread the word – Earth day (22nd April) MAY- JUNE DEAR EARTH Response letter (assessment) EXPECTED RESULTS
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