DESCRIPTION
Title: Catventures
Short description
This project is addressed to the various dimensions of cats’ world, with a strong established link between natural science, art, culture, literature and technology.
The main goal of this project is to explore cats’ life: from domestic animals to wild ones, through the very famous cats presented in our literature and movies.
Project participants are going to perform their tasks together with partners from other countries. We are going to meet during videoconferences, share our work and learn from each other by doing the same tasks, send postcards to our schools and celebrate events connected to cats.
We are going to promote creativity and team work. All students are going to be writers, artists and language experts in this projects.
LANGUAGES
English
PUPILS
What is the age range of the pupils who will participate in the project?
Age from 9-12
How many pupils altogether are going to participate in the project?
50-100
SUBJECTS
You can choose more than one
Art
Cross Curricular Foreign Languages Geography History History of Culture Informatics / ICT Language and Literature Media Education MusicNatural Sciences Primary School Subjects
TOOLS TO BE USED
TwinSpace, blog, videoconferencing tools (Skype, Google Hangouts), video editors, YouTube, Voki, LearningApps, presentation tools (Google Presentations, Prezi, PowerPoint, Emaze)
What is the age range of the pupils who will participate in the project?
Age from 9-12
How many pupils altogether are going to participate in the project?
50-100
SUBJECTS
You can choose more than one
Art
Cross Curricular Foreign Languages Geography History History of Culture Informatics / ICT Language and Literature Media Education MusicNatural Sciences Primary School Subjects
TOOLS TO BE USED
TwinSpace, blog, videoconferencing tools (Skype, Google Hangouts), video editors, YouTube, Voki, LearningApps, presentation tools (Google Presentations, Prezi, PowerPoint, Emaze)
AIMS
- to improve language skills (writing, reading, listening and speaking English),
- to develop ICT skills through using ICT tools in the project,
- to broaden pupils’ knowledge about cats (biological, historical and cultural aspects of the topic),
- to explore the link between natural science, technology, culture and art,
- to encourage pupils to be creative,
- to get to know ways of teaching and learning in other countries,
- to promote collaborative work involving differents agents of learning process: students, teachers, and parents.
WORK PROCESS
October
Organisation of the project, creating a schedule, pupils’ Voki presentations, game “Who is who?” in each country (using LearningApps), creating a logo of the project
November
how to draw a cat, sketchnoting as a method of describing and learning specific topics, famous cats (from films, books, history), preparing Christmas handmade postcards and bookmarks for our partners, Black Cat Appreciation Day (drawing contest for younger pupils - 1 - 3 grade, cats’ costumes at school, collecting money for cats’ shelter)
December
Sending postcards to ours partners, videoconference with our partners (quizizz about famous cats and Christmas meeting: singing Christmas carols, game of riddles), recording Christmas carols sung by “cats”, tutorial “How to make an origami cat”, Cats’ Night - watching films about cats, singing songs, completing eTwinning tasks
January
Types of cats, sounds of cats, dictionaries - the word “cat” in different languages, parts of the body, cats’ food etc.
February
Visiting a cat shelter, World Cat’s Day - decorating the school, exhibition “Photos of our cats”, DIY - how to make a toy for a cat
March
Playing with language (finding words including the word “cat”), cats in culture (superstitions etc.), proverbs about cats
April
Poems and songs about cats, celebrities whose surname is “Cat”, famous people as cats
May
Writing a book about cats, creative writing vocabulary
June
Lapbooks about cats (amazing facts/did you know/facts and myths about cats)
EXPECTED RESULTS
- to share the results of our work at our own school communities,
- to publish the results of our work (using various ICT tools) online (TwinSpace, external blog),
- to gather and exchange with our partners handmade works made by pupils,
- to use the Internet resources consciously,
- to make friends with pupils from other countries.
- to improve language skills (writing, reading, listening and speaking English),
- to develop ICT skills through using ICT tools in the project,
- to broaden pupils’ knowledge about cats (biological, historical and cultural aspects of the topic),
- to explore the link between natural science, technology, culture and art,
- to encourage pupils to be creative,
- to get to know ways of teaching and learning in other countries,
- to promote collaborative work involving differents agents of learning process: students, teachers, and parents.
WORK PROCESS
October
Organisation of the project, creating a schedule, pupils’ Voki presentations, game “Who is who?” in each country (using LearningApps), creating a logo of the project
November
how to draw a cat, sketchnoting as a method of describing and learning specific topics, famous cats (from films, books, history), preparing Christmas handmade postcards and bookmarks for our partners, Black Cat Appreciation Day (drawing contest for younger pupils - 1 - 3 grade, cats’ costumes at school, collecting money for cats’ shelter)
December
Sending postcards to ours partners, videoconference with our partners (quizizz about famous cats and Christmas meeting: singing Christmas carols, game of riddles), recording Christmas carols sung by “cats”, tutorial “How to make an origami cat”, Cats’ Night - watching films about cats, singing songs, completing eTwinning tasks
January
Types of cats, sounds of cats, dictionaries - the word “cat” in different languages, parts of the body, cats’ food etc.
February
Visiting a cat shelter, World Cat’s Day - decorating the school, exhibition “Photos of our cats”, DIY - how to make a toy for a cat
March
Playing with language (finding words including the word “cat”), cats in culture (superstitions etc.), proverbs about cats
April
Poems and songs about cats, celebrities whose surname is “Cat”, famous people as cats
May
Writing a book about cats, creative writing vocabulary
June
Lapbooks about cats (amazing facts/did you know/facts and myths about cats)
EXPECTED RESULTS
- to share the results of our work at our own school communities,
- to publish the results of our work (using various ICT tools) online (TwinSpace, external blog),
- to gather and exchange with our partners handmade works made by pupils,
- to use the Internet resources consciously,
- to make friends with pupils from other countries.
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