IDEA PROYECTO ETWINNING

 TITLE: CULTURE &NATURE IN A BOX

This project aims to deepen students' knowledge about plants' life cycle and culture through different enganging activities . Therefore, students and teachers will become familiar with local and international plants and traditions while they practice their English skills.We will exchangue a real box with some cultural elements, as well as some seeds. We will use twinspace to do the different tasks and share some information.Each country willl plant the seeds received, take care of them, following and sharing the process together on twinspace and it will try to guess the plant that is growing, A cooperative and digital book about plants will be created.

AIMS

Students will:

-Improve English language skills. (listening,speaking,reading and writing)
- Develop ICT skills.
- Improve their cultural and learning to learn compentece.
- Learn about plants.
- Increase their motivation and creativity.

WORK PROCESS

All partners will collaboratively work together on the same tasks adapting the different tasks to their students' level.We will weekly keep in touch in the twinspace.

FEBRUARY:
-Project presentation to school community.
-Welcome to our project. teachers/students will include their schools on the map, talk about our expectations using answer garden. Information about netiquette, e-safety and creative commons.
-Brief presentations of the region and its local plants. ( drawings, padlet, videos etc).

MARCH:
-Preparation of the boxes
- Exchange boxes- share the opening of the boxes on our twinspace and elements. (ask questions...)
-Plant the seeds
APRIL:
- Create a multilingual (in the languages of all participating countries) digital book (BookCreator) in which we would explain to children in an understandable way the whole way from seed to mature plant and re-collecting seeds.
MAY-JUNE:
- Continue digital Book .
-Share plant growing process./plant guessing.
-Evaluation and dissemination

EXPECTED RESULTS

Evaluation & Assessment:
We will gather results using different surveys to both teachers and students in order to know what has worked well, what needs to be improved, what has been learned and how students and teachers have found the project.

Aims:
We expect students will improve their English language skills, ICT skills, build collaboration and team work among countires and learn about different plants and their cycle.

At the end of the project a public Twinspace will be created with differents contributions , videos, photos, drawings...
A cooperative digital book will be created.ted.