HERE IS MY PROJECT PLAN

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My European penfriends

Short description

The basic idea of this project is to create a real connection and friendship between the partner students.

The project consists of several modules of which the students and the teachers can choose the most appropriate/interesting ones for the actual project. The modules will have different topics e.g likes and dislikes, seasons, holidays, free time activities, hobbies, family members, home countries, etc.

In a safe virtual learning environment such as Twinspace, the students can get to know each other, share information and experiences and learn communication (including foreign language) and ICT skills at the same time. Or if the students don't have İnternet connection we can exchange traditional letters.

The age range of the pupils of a potential partner for a Project is from 6 to 9.

The number of students to participate depends on the number of partner schools

Pedagogical Objectives of the project are:

• Encourage students to get to know each other and become friends

• Develop students’ abilities to communicate in foreign language, share information and collaborate virtually

• Enhance students’ ICT skills

• Enhance students’ understanding and knowledge of European countries and cultures

Work process

Students will start exchanging some short texts about themselves to introduce each other. Then they can exchange  postcards. Furthermore, they can chat via Skype or similar.

Students can make some collaborative activities, like preparing an e-book about their penpals country, or a poster for every topic.

A short Questionnaire (e.g. Google Forms or Survey Monkey) can be used for comparing information between different countries and discussing similarities and differences. Questions can deal with favourite school subjects, free time activities, hobbies, families, home towns, pets, favourite food, etc.

Expected results

Kahoot! and Socrative quizzes can be used at the end of each module as formative assessment to check what students remember about the topics and how their thematic foreign language knowledge has developed.

Assessment of the project:

At the end of the project students fill in a questionnaire addressing their feelings and experiences about the project, what was good and what could be improved.

Students also assess how their attitudes have changed, what they have learned during the project and how their skills have developed in:

• foreign language skills

• ICT skills

• communication and collaboration skills

• cultural understanding

Students make some collaborative activities, like preparing an e-book about their penpals country,preparing a presentation about their penpals country with the help of web.2 tools  or a poster for every topic.