Spring travels and sings around Europe
Kindergarten students (4-6 years old)
- Children learn to collaborate in order to accomplish a shared goal - Children learn to share and exchange ideas on a specific topic - Children learn how to integrate web 2.0 tools in creating an interactive collaborative poster or whiteboard - Children learn songs of "spring" in different languages around Europe - Children learn about the changes in season and especially what changes occur during spring on earth, climate, environment and our mood - Children develop effective communication skills in a foreign language - Children develop skills and abilities to achieve a public and shared presentation
Environment, ICT, Language, Music
Students work in groups of 3 to 4 students to search for media files (video and audio files) of songs about "spring" in another language, the
language of their partners. For instance, if 4 or 5 countries are participating in a project, each country finds songs about spring of another country. Students can use titan pad to share information and to determine what they have found to peers. When all peer groups have come to a conclusion of which songs to use, they can create an interactive poster with all the representative songs of spring using Glogster. An example of the activity can be found on the following link: http://gvirla.edu.glogster.com/spring-travels-and-sings-around-europe/
Students can also work in groups in order to create an interactive collaborative whiteboard using RealTime Board, a free online tool which also offers the opportunity for live chats. In the whiteboard students can upload songs, videos, images and make comments next to the videos (for instance who the singer is, when was written etc.), also add posters. Additionally, students can add a picture of how spring looks like in the home countries and their partners’ countries. An example of the activity can be found on this link: https://realtimeboard.com/app/31013310/Spring-travels-and-sings-aroundEurope
Finally, students working in groups can create presentations to say something about spring using Voki,Voicethread or Fotobabble.
Georgia Vyrla (Greece), Maria Perttula (Greece), Violeta Korkucyte (United Kingdom), Adoniou Vasiliki (Greece)