Collaboration

Collaboration


The following sentences is a small plan for a cross border project for a primary school.
The topic is:

Cooking around the world

McDonalds vs. Traditional Dishes

What is it about?

• to teach the students about traditional dishes.

What are the aims?

• to teach the students be aware of the traditional and healthy dishes and eating habits

• get to know more about other traditional dishes-
• compare the dishes of the two different countries and find out the similarieties and differences
• cooperative learning
• language skills
• methodological competence
• develope ICT-competence (information and communication technology)

Why chosen?

• it is a important topic for every people all over the world
• it is in everybodys daily life and thats motivation

Why suitable?

• to use the ICT-competence
• to use social networks, that they can compare to each other and get a good knowledge

How are we going to plan the projekt?

• divide the class into 4 group
• the teacher have to do the work before, to chose the different schools in europe and gave the students a list with different schools in different countries
• the groups choose each one country

• the project can be placed after a period of lessons with the topic healthy
• the project takes just place at school
  

How are we going to organize it – timetable- dividing into smaller groups etc.

first step:  

• Introduction with a view questions to activate the students motivation, interests and previews knowledge: e. g.

                What do you know about food in foreign countries?

                Do you think that McDonalds is known all around the world?

second step:

• after the activation the pupils get a list with the project schools of the foreign countries
• each group can decide which country they would like to work with

third step:

• get a knowledge about the chosen country by using different information tools( internet, encyclopedia etc.)

forth step:

• start preparing an email ( the teacher helps the pupils with working on differentsentences and structures)→ they get a scaffolder

fifth step:

• they send an email and start to get in contact with each other to get a knowledge about the traditional dishes in the country

• the pupils can decide the way of stay in contact (skype, email etc.)

sixth step:

• after collecting all the information they should cook the dishes and do a presentation about the country they have chosen
• taking into account similarities , differences etc.

seventh step:

• make a letter of invitation for the parents, to come to the final fetsival

to add:

• there is no strict timetable , to answer students' needs

Evaluation

• the students evaluate each other after the presentation in a feedback round
• the teacher evaluate with a scedule how competences developed
• the competences are mentioned in the aims

How the students can learn something?

• that they can follow the steps and reach the aims
• learning by doing

How can the project be shown at school and to the parents?

• to present the results at the open day with an international festival

How is involved?

•  students and teacher from the home institution and the institutions abroad