E-activities for the project "Factories"

AGE: 10-12                             

LANGUAGE: English

PARTICIPANTS: 3-4 schools

CURRICULUM: Cross curricular (Environmental Education, English SL, Science, Language, ICT, Art)

INSPIRATION: Activity in the Greek students’ workbook of Environmental Education

PROCESS: 

1. Students get to know each other through Skype meetings (if there are time-difference problems, through mails or any presentation tool).

2. Students, with the help of teachers form transnational groups of 6-8 (two students of each school in a group)

3. Students work  in groups on the following activities

PROPOSED E-ACTIVITIES:

1. Collaborative drawing-synchronous or asynchronous- (TWIDDLA): Students draw collaboratively a factory. They use chat to decide the product of the factory, materials they need, package needed and required machinery. The final drawing can be close or far from reality.

Students take a screenshot and upload it on the project's blog. They can vote (TRICIDER) for the best drawing (if they decide so) as evaluation. Students can also write comments as peer evaluation.

2. Creative writing activity-synchronous or asynchronous- (GOOGLE DOCS, TITANPAD): Students in multi-nationality groups write a mystery short story taking place in a factory. Students upload their final stories on the project's blog. They can vote (TRICIDER) for the best story (if they decide so) or write comments as peer evaluation.

3. 3D creation of a factory-synchronous or asynchronous- (MINECRAFT): Students create in mixed groups a factory using Minecraft and create a short video to show the final design. Students upload their videos on the project's blog. They can vote (TRICIDER) for the best video (if they decide so).

4. Local milk factories presentation -asynchronous-(PREZI,PPT, ANIMOTO); Students present their local milk factory: from caws to factory, pasteurisation, homogenisation, packaging, other milk products, waste disposal. Each national group presents their factory and a collective presentation is created. The final product can be presented to each of the participating schools. 

Presentations can be on any related topic e.g. history of factories, children working in factories, factory products that do not yet exist etc. 

FINAL PRODUCT-DISSEMINATION: All the final products of the group activities (drawings, short stories, minecraft factories, milk factories presentations) will be presented on the project's blog. The blog can be linked to the participating schools' websites, so the results of the project will be disseminated in a wider audience.

OBJECTIVES:
Students

•  Acquire knowledge about factories
• Understand how factories work
•  Anlyse facts about factories
• Create 2D and 3D factories
• Create stories 
• Use language and second language effectively
• Practise various skills:ICT, drawing, collaboration, presentation
• Evaluate their creations