The classroom full of the cars project details

We (mgr Sylwia Leśniacka, mgr Zuzana Šlepecká and mgr Dominika Giezek) think what is the best way to active children. We want to put together their interests and their need to learn something. Join the pleasure with useful. That way was born the idea – cars. Through their interests in cars, lead children to be safety on the roads and contribute to their protection (traffic education).

Subjects: Cross Curricular, Foreign Languages, Informatics / ICT, Media Education, Primary School Subjects

Languages: slovenčina - English - polski

Pupil's age: 8 - 10

Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Video conference, Web publishing

Aims:
Get to know children from other school.
Support international cooperation and communication between partners.
Develop responsibilities to cooperate from a long distance.
Improve english language in communication.
Perfecting ICT usage.
Get to know a car history, compare it in modern times.
Develop childern’s imagination (cars in the future).
Learn different employment positions that are associated with car production and their service(car mechanic, painter...)
Traffic education – to lead children the safety road. Get to know traffic rules on the road, symbols.

Work process:
Get to know partner school: a class digital album (children will get photographs and make voice recording – they will introduce themselves in english language and say which cars they like the most, they can add a photo their favourite car). Children will create presentation using the Power Point programme = every child will have one slide. We will send the presentation via e-mail and this way we get to know our partners better.
History cars: Children from Slovakia – they will visit the muzeum of the old – veterans. Children from Poland – they will search old cars on line.
Actual cars: both partner sites will put the competition into the class, consist in collecting little models of cars: Who has more cars (an exchange of information through video conference).
Cars in the future: One class for the other will prepare drawings with future cars.
Visit of the car garage: Both classes will visit in their country the car garage and they will get to know how people work there. They will write down their observations and take photographs.
Traffic education: Children from Slovakia – they will learn traffic rules, traffic symbols – signs and rules on the interactive board. Children from Poland - they will learn traffic rules in the car school.
Final competition - Both schools will create a quiz where they will test each other knowledge about basic traffic rules, symbols, but also knowledge about cars, which they learned about during the project.

Expected results: We expect that children will gain bigger motivation and positive relationship for education under influence of parnership from abroad.We believe that this way of learning can be fun for children. Also we expect that the project will enrich also teachers about new experiences, skills, knowledge in reagion ICT and language skillls.

Slovak version

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All photos and videos on "The classroom full of the cars" website by mgr Sylwia Leśniacka, mgr Zuzana Šlepecká and mgr Dominika Giezek. All rights reserved.

czwartek, 1 października 2009

Abortive attempt of our first video-conference

Slovak children were sad, because didn´t go internet, when their were waiting on the connection with our partner from Poland. They hope, that second attempt will be better. They are looking forward. 
Zuzana Šlepecká