The 44 activities cover a wide range of topics meant to stimulate collaboration, respect for cultural differences and for the diversity of ideas and opinions.
Main concepts
MAIN CONCEPTS • Education Through Arts, Arts in Schools • Teaching Literature, Interactive Teaching and Learning, Reading Comprehension Skills, Creative Writing, Story Telling • Community, Living Together, Friendship • Handcrafts, Art Activities for Children • Media Education, Photography • Diversity, Nondiscrimination
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Architecture for Children, Urban Education Multiple Intelligences Teaching Drama, Social Inclusion Through Drama School Gardening, Ecology, Nature-based Learning, Garden Design for Children • Recycled Art, Project- Based Learning, Oral Presentation/ Giving a Talk • Interculturality, Diversity, Social Inclusion Through Arts • Music Education, Self-knowledge, Identity
• Feedback from teachers • Revision
The Teacher's Book •provides all elements needed to plan, organise and carry out a successful activity • the teacher will find valuable information regarding the targeted grade, duration, materials and equipment, the learning objectives, the methodology and the forms of evaluation •suggestions on how to make the teaching and learning process an interactive and child-led one, how to extend or differentiate the activities within a cross-cutting approach and how to adapt them to local context, the specific conditions of each school and the characteristics of the groups of students they are working with.
The Student 's Book •a variety of tasks and exercises, chosen to address the abilities of each age group -draw, to answer questions, to read and discuss or to fill in tables, to select the right answer and to write •pair and group work •communication skills, cooperate and relate to each other •collaborative learning •various assessments methods both of the learning process itself and of the activity products •from self to peer and group work evaluation •preparatory phase, the 'while-doing the activity' stage, at the end of the activity.