Schedule of etwinning program: A Historical Trip 11920-2020… with the Time Machine

A Historical Trip 1920-2020… With the Time Machine

 The Project Schedule 

The objectives of this project are to do a historic trip from 1920 to 2020 while using the English language, art (painting, literary stories, and poems), personal stories, interviews, historical sources, museums and develop their skills in the use of information technologies as means of communication and expression. Teachers with their students will choose important historical events every twenty years and will discover how much their country and its inhabitants have influenced by the specific historical event, for example, the creation of the European Union: how changed the lives of the inhabitants of Europe.

September/ October 2019

The teacher of the class writes his/her students to etwinning platform. The students choose their usernames and code, so they can visit etwinning platform any time they want to communicate with their new friends and partners. 

Preparation:

We can organize our class with play activities and show them how important it is to respect and follow the norms in our community.

1. Who we are: The students were divided into four groups and each student introduced himself – name, a few words about his/her family, interesting – and reported a positive summer experience. Then all the class members sat in a large circle using their chairs (we can also use small pillows). The teacher had the role of the coordinator of the class group. The teacher, holding a small ball in her hands, first introduced herself to the students, reported a pleasant summer experience and then threw the ball at one of the students to do the same. The game was over when all the members of the class had been recommended. Then the teacher asked the students what impressed them, what they liked, what they remembered from everything they heard. In this way, the teacher is given the opportunity to emphasize the importance of listening carefully to others when speaking, not interrupting and looking at the speaker, because in addition to speech we also have body language, which gives us important information.

2. I hear and see: the students are divided into two large groups (if they are 20 divided 10-10), they sat in a circle and are started by the group coordinator, who said his/her name and what he likes and does not like to do his/her free time. The next member of the group repeated the words of the first and then mentioned his/her own, the third started from the first, mentioned the second and then talked about himself/herself and the game goes on like this until we

get to the last one, who repeats all the words of circle members. With this game, we understand how important it is to listen and look at our interlocutor. (cultivating and developing skills). Then we played a role-play e.g. child-mother:  a child wants to talk to its mother about an important event, but at the same time as her child relates its experience she does other homework at the same time. Εach binary team improvises the roles before playing.

3. Class rules-Etwinning community: students with the teacher sat in a friends’ circle- we called our group: “Friends’ group”- and discussed what norms exist in their families, in the sports clubs, and generally in every social group they belong to and act, in order to there is harmony, balance and a climate of mental freedom, trust and security. After that, the students wrote on board the norms of the class, etwinning community and then all the members signed the “group contract”. Day by day all the students started to discuss what concerns them or puts them in a difficult position.  
4. Artistic nickname: Each student acquired his/her artistic nickname and used it during the school year. The students and the teacher sat in a large circle. Then one child took its chair and sat in the center of the circle and closed its eyes. Then the members of the friends’ circle suggested different artistic nicknames – positively always – that fit to his/her personality. The kid sitting in the center chose the one he/she liked best. Artistic nicknames can be names of heroines of books or movies or the students make them choosing pairs of words like “Bright Star”.

5. Recognizing and Managing My Feelings: The teacher of the class helped students to express and manage their emotions, to solve problems and conflicts with dialogue, and to understand the position and perspective of others. Also, the main goal of the activities was to understand, respect and accept the different personalities of each individual and the different dynamics of each within the group. All these activities led to the prevention of conflicts and negative situations among members of the Friends’ group. Initially, we watched several short films -youtube- … and we discussed in Friends’ group about the heroes’ feelings, then we divided them into positive feelings-joy, excitement … – and negative one-anger, jealousy, dislike … -, into simple-joy, love, fear … – and in a more complex – gratitude, euphoria, frustration … -, we talked about the qualities of emotions – tension, quality and duration – and each member of the team choose an experience and narrated it to the others.

Then the coordinator-teacher- asked several questions such as: how do you feel when someone talks to you sharply? How do you feel when someone offends you? – a classmate, a teacher … – How do you react when you lose or you win a game? etc. Then the students played many role-playing games and experienced

different emotions, positive and negative. During the games, they tried to come into the position-empathy- of the victim or the leader or the child who no one chooses him/her as a playmate in a game e.t.c. The purpose of all actions besides being able to recognize and manage their emotions was to understand that it is natural to feel anger, fear, jealousy…, but what matters is the students are able to recognize and manage them.

P.A.1

1.School Presentation

The students and the teachers will decide how they present their school- school name, region, classes, schoolyards, the parts of the school,  students, decoration, activities, games, details about the region…- We can use videopad, Vimeo or another tool(If you know another free tool you can recommend it)…

2. a)What is History? b) How important it is to know our History?

The second activity is to ask our students what is “History”. We can use the technique “brainstorming” and we write their answers using the free tool “WordArt”. After that, we can discuss with them “How important it is to know our History”. 

P.A.2.

1.An important historical event 1920-1940: we can use a free tool like timetoast-you can suggest others you have used- to make a historical line of that period and we choose one of them. We can interview a museum, gallery or library manager how we can use art to learn about various historical events…. Also, we can interview a person – grandmother, grandfather, parents … – about the historical event we have chosen, use historical sources and in the end, we create a video-videopad, vimeo…- with all the results of our search.

2.We upload in the common Padlet: our word art, timeline and the results of our work. Also, we can upload a video or an interview… On Padlet we and our students can see and write comments. During the class counsil we discuss about our work for example what we learned and what we learned from the countries we worked with.

https://padlet.com/geoklo/7604qaoy82rz

3.We will analyze paintings                            https://www.ourboox.com/books/photos-tell-us-their-story/

https://sway.office.com/EETYqZJYoTzrCNf4?ref=Lin

4.We write our thoughts, our feelings

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ubLsDqJBNI_lsN52oiaS6HGNcig9DbrePrFQyy_j_iY/edit

5.We upload videos or photos from the analysis of paintings

6. Students with music teacher will choose a song of the time 1920-1940 and will present it to their collaborators

P.B.1940-1960:  The consequences of World War II (common subject)

We upload our results in a common padlet

https://padlet.com/geoklo/csrsac54fmmp

1.We can invite people (grandparents)  that they were children at that period or we can invite a historian. Also, we can visit a museum to see paintings or other objects from that period and we take an interview from the director of museum about “How important is the museum in education”.

2. “The Wall of emotions”: We will analyse the paintings and the students will write: “How the heroes of the paintings feel?  what feelings you can feel when you see these paintings. Also, students can vote for the painting they like more and they can write their comments”.

  https://padlet.com/geoklo/e5aq2yglhv5n

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyO0jnzCCKd8TGqbyeqhhSxlXrfyJtuEcx7guCZxyZ7nfCoQ/viewform

3. Questionnaire-game: “The world you dream”. The aim of this activity is students and teachers understand  how important is to recognize and control our feelings. If you want to be a politician or a doctor or a teacher…. you have to know, recognize and control your feelings.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyO0jnzCCKd8TGqbyeqhhSxlXrfyJtuEcx7guCZxyZ7nfCoQ/viewform

4. The wall of short stories:

We will work in groups (5 students) and we will write a short story with imagination

Scenario: Inspired by war and its effects on humanity. This gentleman in a square wonders why the watches have stopped and why the people are in a hurry and scared. He’s waiting for his girlfriend, but she’s not coming. Time seems to have stopped.  Suddenly he heard from people around him saying “Τhe world war ΙΙ started”.Then he froze. His plans and his dreams stopped. Time has frozen. The home country will invite him to stop his studies at the University, to stop his dreams, to stop enjoy his freedom, to stop his personal life. He wanted to travel around the world, to get to know other cultures, to marry his girlfriend and start a family, to succeed in his business plans… You will give fantastic names to the heros of your story. What does he think loudly? What does he think about the leaders of the countries?

Try with your story to show the bad war’s effects on people’s lives. Send your message to the leaders of the countries of the world. Use your imagination and your knowledge you gained about the bad effects of war on people’s lives

5. Our short stories: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p9Zm-NaA_o2PyBm_v8n8jG2JvvhvQeXRvATKC_0e52Y/edit

6. Our portraits: The students will paint their portraits.

https://www.ourboox.com/books/our-portraits/

https://www.ourboox.com/books/our-book-of-emotions/

7. A handmade small historical book: The students will make a small historical book with the most important historical events in time 1940-1960 and they will send them to their partners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zdjxZjx9bc&feature=emb_logo

8. Our handmade small historical book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgQVr4ZiviA&feature=emb_logo

9. The students of St’ 3 class of 54o Primary School Piraeus taught all the students of our school how to make a handmade small book

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7ib8rwp58dfoigv/2Etwinning%20project.pdf?dl=0

P.C. The historical Period 1960-2000

Common padlet:

https://el.padlet.com/geoklo/zzf3z1jqfcg

a)We will learn the most important historical event in that time (interviews, museum, historical sources, movies)

b)we will write customs of our country and we will share them with our partners.

c) we will write or we make a video with tradinional recipe of our country

d)we will make a power point or a video with our country beauties

e) We will sing a tradinional song or we can write a tradinional poem of our country

P.C.1.

We learn European Union playing

a)we can visit the official european site read many information and play many games._

b) We will present a country which belongs in E.U using power point

c) We will play puzzles

d) we will watch a theatre performance about E.U.

and last we will play the game “My secret friend”. All the countries which belong to E.U have to be friends, help and respect each other

https://www.ourboox.com/books/my-secret-friend/

P.D. The historical period 2000-2020

a) Students will discuss with the teachers about the most important events that period(interviews, museum, historical sources, movies)

b) Team groups: Students will present by power point one important event of this time.

c) What we did in a time COVID 9

Conclusion

a) The wall of our project: “A Historical Trip 1920-2020… with the Time Machine”

https://el.padlet.com/geoklo/7pv52ki3misg

b) The Wall of messages

https://el.padlet.com/geoklo/bt40xt4qx5u5

c) A file is travelling from Greece to Malta and Spain

d) Our song ” The children’s world”

e) Our blog: “A Historical Trip 1920-2020… with the Time Machine