eTWINNING PROJECTS: ROBINSON CRUSOE: CAN ROBINSON HELP US GROW? 25-26

THIS IS THE BOOK THE PROJECT IS BASED ON:

ROBINSON CRUSOE

Our team read a number of chapters each week and we had a test about them to see what we remembered.

CHAPTERS 1-3

AIMS

Helping our students to improve their linguistic competences
Guiding the students in activities that aim to make them reflect on who they are, what they desire
Giving the students the opportunity to read within themselves and their own emotions
Helping our students to work on themselves and their identities
Inviting the students to focus on the author's purpose, the main character's motivations, to analyze the context and the setting, the protagonists' mindset, and the literary style.

PARTICIPANTS

ITALY

ICS "Pescara 8", Pescara

POLAND

Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 w Sianowie, Sianów

SPAIN

IES Escultor Juan de Villanueva, La Pola Siero

TÜRKIYE

Ali Güneri Ortaokulu, Kartepe

Didim Efeler Ortaokulu, Didim

Yunusemre Atatürk Ortaokulu, Yunusemre

We did different activities to introduce the topic.

It was important to know about our reading habits.

QUESTIONNAIRE: 'MY READING HABITS'

We asked the students in our high school to answer the same questionnaire voluntarily in order to compare the results later on.

We decided to have a discussion about the beginning of Robinson's adventure and parents' advice.

We celebrated EDOL by assessing our language skills, taking part in a European poll and playing a game.

OUR LANGUAGE SKILL ASSESSMENT

POLL

We celebrated ERASMUS+ DAYS.

We read its priorities, created badges with slogans for eTwinning and Erasmus+ and solved a wordsearch.

In October, we had a meeting with the students from Pescara, Italy to celebrate ERASMUS DAYS.

We played a game about ERASMUS and we had time to introduce ourselves and ask questions about the other school. We had fun and we learnt a lot.

CELEBRATING ERASMUS DAYS

The students took their initial survey.

STUDENTS' PRE-SURVEY RESULTS

It was time to know each other better and also to know about our schools.

We discussed about gratitude, taking advantage of Thanksgiving Day.

We made a wordcloud with reasons why we are thankful.

On November 24th, there was the first Teachers' meeting to introduce the project to new teachers and decide on the steps to follow.

Then, we discussed on the forum about keeping diaries and the positive and negative sides of living alone on an island.

We created a PRESENTATION WITH TIPS TO SURVIVE ON A DESERT ISLAND.

We also used the forum to write about our favourite books and authors.

We worked on the topics of solitude and friendship.

We created leaflets with badges about two topics: SOLITUDE and FRIENDSHIP.

Then, each team chose two for each category in order to create a common leaflet.

It was time to have a logo. First, we thought about having a competition and these are the ones we made.

CÉSAR AND MATEO

ALBA, NORA AND YAIZA

DELIA AND SOFÍA

(Chosen as the best one by their classmates)

DIMAS, LUIS AND SAMUEL

Finally, we mixed tradition and innovation. We worked in a transnational group to get it using AI, but the students also created their own ones so that each team would choose one.

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When Christmas came, all the students made cards to send their best wishes to their partners. We shared them on the forum.

Here you are the ones we made.

In January, teachers had an online meeting to agree on future activities.

In order to celebrate SID, we made a collaborative video.

Each team chose a slogan for the day and the students were filmed while reading it. Then, all the videos were put together.

These were all our suggestions:

And our team's winners were ..... CÉSAR AND MARKEL with their slogan:

'THE INTERNET IS LIKE AN ISLAND, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TYPE OF HAZARDS CAN BE THERE'

This is our video.

This is our collaborative video with all slogans.

We also assessed our digital competences and we got the following results.

We discussed about the topic using the following RESOURCES

We made digital cards/posters for our partners showing what the project meant for us.

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Then, we prepared an online exhibition with all these cards and posters.

In order to celebrate Earth Day, we invented our news about marine disasters and we discussed about how to prevent them on the forum.

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We wrote a COLLABORATIVE DIARY OF ROBINSON'S DAILY LIFE.

Some students wrote, others drew the images and others read it.

We used all the opportunities to deal with the culture of the countries involved in the project.

We made a presentation about different celebrations in the world including theirs.

We celebrated EUROPE / eTWINNING DAY.

We focused on eTwinning's annual theme 'SKILLS FOR LIFE'.

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The students met on May 19th to play a game about Europe to celebrate its day.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE EU?

They also gave their opinions about the meeting and the project.

We played the game in class for those students who hadn't been able to attend the meeting.

On May 26th there was another online meeting for students, where they read their ebook and wrote their opinions about the project.

We created two radio ads about eTwinning and about our project.

Three students from the group spoke about their project to other groups in the school.

The students gave their opinions about the project in the post-survey.

Finally, they got their certificates for their hard work.