Social and cultural activities during the meetings of MMM We prepared different activities for each meeting – related to the hosting school and its abilities. By this we tried to increase the sense of togetherness among the participants of different ages (from 13 to 17). We want to rise the awareness of similarities and differences between Europeans from different countries , who sometimes were the first time abroad together with unknown students. To foster this perception we will talk about this at one of the last meetings. At each meeting we had a welcome/farewell-party together with the hosting parents and other teachers from staff and at least a common meal with traditional food. Of course we there were cultural activities while working on math, too. In addition to this we had the following special events: First meeting in Germany: 1) Poster and video presentation from all partners 2) Sports: acrobatic figures in the planned international team (video)
3) Hitting with a newspaper  students form a circle of chairs  one student stands in the middle with a newspaper role
a sitting student begins by calling a name of one of the students sitting on a chair the “newspaper- student” has to hit the student whose name was called the student whose name was called has to say a name of another sitting student before getting hit if the newspaper student hits the sitting student before, he calls another name; those students change roles the former “newspaper- student” begins by calling a new name 4) Speed-Dating rows of tables are formed all foreign students sit at the one side of those tables and the other students at the other side timer starts two students who sit in front of each other have to interview each other each student also has to learn at least 10 (9, 8, …) words in the language of the other student e.g. brother – Bruder, mother – Mutter, aple – Apfel, … after a couple of minutes the foreign students take the seat to their left and everything starts again 5) Welcome-party with teachers’ band, all participating students and parents in school (see video) 6) Work on architecture and maths in the center of Unna, historical aspects included
7) Cultural trip into the Ruhr-Area: Bergbau- Museum in Bochum, BVBStadium, talk about the change of the Ruhr area) 8) Farwell-barbecue with all teachers in the project and maths and language teachers of PGU with typical food from all countries
Bilaterial meeting in Riga (Latvia, Germany) Pictures from all activities are in the TS , a short report of the meeting written by students, too. 1) Opening Ceremony at Riga Plaza, welcome speech by the Principal of the School "Klasika”, teams’ presentations and „ice-breaking” activities .
2) Sport event at the bowling center Fantasy park 3) Guided tour in the Old Town of Riga, in German, done by students who learn German 4) Visiting the National Opera of Riga, seeing the opera “The Nutcracker” 5) Visiting the Parliament of Latvia 6) Museum of “Art Nouveau” and “Sun Museum” 7) Latvian Music: Good-bye cermony (see video)
Meeting in Belgium 1.
Welcome-party with participants and parents with a buffet of starters that are typical for each country
2. Excursion to Dendermonde (pattern walk) 3. Visit of the Future Classroom Lab of eTwinning in Brussels 4. Visit of the Science Museum in Mechelen 5. Excursion to historical Gent (by night)
Bilateral meeting in Riga (Latvia, Switzerland) Pictures from all activities can be in in the picture gallery. There are also videos of singing old songs with the guests. 1. Opening Ceremony at Riga Plaza, welcome speech by the Principal of the school "Klasika”, teams’ presentations and „ice-breaking” activities . 2. Sport event at the bowling center Fantasy park and small tasty treats. 3. Math tour around the center of Riga and visit to the 5D Cinema „Look at Riga”. 4. A visit to the Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation. 5. Presentation of Latvian students about the history of the Cinema „Splendid Palace” and about the play of Janis Rainis „Golden Horse”.
6. Visiting the exhibition – portrait gallery „Born in Riga – Famous Worldwide” at Cinema „Splandid Palace” and watching the movie „Golden Horse”. 7. Excursion to the Pauls Stradins museum of the history of medicine and exhibition of Amber. 8. The walk around Jurmala – the biggest resort city in the Baltic States. 9. Visit to the Jurmala City Museum. 10.Visit to the Theater of Luminous Painting INNER LIGHT with workshop.
Meeting on Canary Islands (Spain)
Pictures from all activities can be in in the picture gallery. There are also some videos. More information in the Spanish part of the TS. 1. Opening cermony in school, welcome by the headmaster 2. Ice-breaking activities: Getting to know each other 3. Excursion: guided visit of the desalination plant and Salinas de Tenefé. 4. Protected nature in the Canaries: visit of the dunes of Maspalomas and the information center in Playa de Ingles
5. Common leisure time with swimming at the beach of Maspalomas
6. Video conference with SMOS 7. The music of rain – listen! (video) 8. Fare-well-Party with all participants and parents and common night at school
It is tradition to bring typical food from our different countries to the meetings. All enjoy this very much and to inform about this typical food, when it is eaten, ‌.
After dinner it is also tradition to thank the hosting country by speeches and gift and afterwards party and dancing.
Here two more videos about cultural activtities and social activties made by the Spanish team.
Meeting in Limassol (Cyprus) 1. Presentatition of history and the actual problem (divided island) in Cyprus 2. Presentation of traditional dances of Cyprus 3. Ice-breaking activities: Getting to know each other (video)
4. Greek Alphabeth lesson (see worksheet) 5. Kahoot activity about ancient Greek 6. Art and maths activities (potteries and mosaics)
7. Welcome-Party for students and teachers 8. Visit of the Archimedes Museum nearby Limassol
10. Visit of the old castle in Limassol and running a Pithon (as a marathon) with some sportive students and one female teacher at Limassol promenade
11. Visit and math activities in the Amphitheatre of Kourio
12. Visit to Kato Paphos Archeological Park and to Ayios Neophytos Monastery
13. Typical Cypriot lunch in a tavern 14. Farewell-party in school with Cypriot barbecue prepared by the hosting parents and some typical food as usual (sweet and salted) from Belgium, Germany, Latvia and Switzerland with a photoshow of more than 3000 pictures and dancing