My project draft - Factories-the human "miracles"

Project Title: Factories
The human "miracles"

Age: 10-12 years old

Participants: 3-4 partners

Overview: Aspects of the project: Local factories, factory as a working place, architecture of factories, products, procedures, machinery, environmental issues, fantasy factories (e.g. Charlie & the chocolate factory), history of factories, films (e.g. Charlie Chaplin-Modern Times), videos  

Outcomes:

Students learn various information about factories.

Students analyse facts related to factories

Students present their findings
Create a fantastic factory

Create a digital game on this theme

Students evaluate their partners work

Curriculum:

Topic: Inventions- the human miracles
Subjects: English as a second language, ICT, Art, Science, Environmental education

Steps:

• Teachers communicate and decide which aspects of the topic they prefer to work on.
• Teachers collaboratively create a list of tasks for the groups of students (e.g. draw collaboratively a factory, comment on a film, create a quiz, present local (milk) factories, questionnaires, digital game, puzzle, poster about environmental issues etc.) Students suggest activities to be added on the list.
• Students with the help of their teachers form mixed nationality groups
• Each group takes a name and is given a list of tasks to choose. 
• Students communicate through padlet, titanpad, googledocs.
• Final product: A blog where all the finished activities will be posted, or a series of videos with the produced material.

Evaluation:
Students will comment on the blog's posts and teachers will create a multiple choice quiz to check the impact of collaboration and activities. Teachers will communicate the results among them as a final evaluation.