The Witnesses of our Past
Name of the project: The Witnesses of our Past
Number of schools involved: 4-5
Number of students: 32-40
Age of students:11-12
Language: English
Subjects: History, English, Geography, Art, Computer Science, Citizenship.
Aims:
- develop interest in history as a subject;
- learn about historical sources and how to understand them;
- learn about history of the area and the countries that are involved in the project;
- present the country and culture;
- develop communicative and cooperative skills,
- develop computer skills through various applications used.
Expected results:
Through this project students would learn how to recognize various historical sources and develop their critical thinking through analyzing those sources.
Final products:
- a map showing position of schools on MyHistro,
- videos presenting schools, historic places near the schools, individual presentations of students.
- a story of a historic source presented as a timeline on MyHistro,
- a poll about the best individual presentation made in Tricider,
- a quiz made with Kahoot!
- tutorial videos explaining the activity tasks made by teachers and polls accessing each activity,
- a joint comic book made in Pixton.
Work process:
This project will start in August when teachers should gather to discuss the main ideas concerning the project and organize the activities. They should also work on synchronizing the curriculum plan for the first trimester. Teachers use Padlet to share ideas and the project journal and other tools in the twinspace.
Teachers would make a tutorial video to explain the tasks for each activity in order to help students with their presentations.
The pages in the Twinspace will be organized for each of the activities separately, starting with the tutorial video and ending with a poll for accessing each activity by students and teachers.
In September activity number 1 would be to present schools through its history and to use MyHistro as a tool to map the schools and write short introduction of them. Each school would have a national team of 8 for this activity. Each student would also have to introduce oneself through old photos or objects from early childhood presented as a video or a slideshow.
Teachers would make a tutorial video to help students with their presentations.
At the end of this first activity, teachers will present a poll in Tricider for students to vote for the best individual presentation.
In October students would, working in national teams, have to record a video at a historic site from their neighbourhood as activity number 2. Those films would be presented using any video editing tool.
They would also give tasks to other national teams to find a historic source from a certain period of time, write a story how it was used, and put it on the time line using MyHisto.
In November, activity number 3 would be would have to create an online quiz using Kahoot. With this quiz they will check how much their partner students have learnt from the presentations they gave in the previous activity.
The final activity will be in December when students will work in international teams of 8-10. Those teams will be formed by the teachers. Each team will communicate through chat or video conferences during regular lessons.
Each team will make a comic describing one period of time (chosen by other team as a challenge).
All teams will work together on a collaborative comic book presenting 4 or 5 different periods of time. All teams would assess the other teams' books according to certain evaluation criteria created by teachers. The tool used for this activity can be Pixton any other tool chosen by students.
This project can last longer and have more activities if teachers decide so. Every project is a living thing and can be developed during the very process. It all depends on the teachers' and students' creativity and willing to cooperate.
Thank you for your patience.
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