If you feel like being my students' penpals or project partners, email me at juliasorel@mail.ru
Puppet Exchange Project
Orly Winer is a teacher from Israel. She's starting a new project in September:
1. Make your own paper dolls along with clothing and accessories to go with them.
2. On the other side of your puppets write about yourselves, your holidays or country (whatever you decide).
3. Send your dolls to the project manager: http://orlywinerwiki.wikispaces.com/Register
4. Each school participating in the project gets an envelope with different dolls.
Project Partners:
The Puppets We've Got
(created by Orly Winer)
Culture in a Box Project
Our Project Partners:
St. Pierre en Faucigny Colleage, France
American International School, Even Yehuda, Israel
Be our next partners.
British Council project template:
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Summary
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Schools will exchange by
parcel post the ‘culture boxes’ containing ten items. By choosing the items to
put in, they
will learn about ‘how others see us’. By explaining their choices they will try to tell their partner school ‘how we see ourselves’. |
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First
activity
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Choose team(s) in each
school that will find 10 items that represent their country. They will
collect these and send parcels to their partner schools (for expensive items,
use cut-out pictures; or for large monuments use a photo or a model). |
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Exchange
work
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Students decide how to stir
up interest and intrigue in their partner schools. They could create a quiz
to see if
the items can be guessed before they arrive. Or they could create PowerPoints about stereotypes. Or perhaps some helpful ‘Do’s and Don’ts’ – what to say and how to act when you see or use or eat the item! Useful references such as maps, websites. |
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Share
responses
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Photograph the box arriving
and being opened. Were the guesses correct? Do the students know how to treat
the objects? What did they expect and what was a surprise?
(Use live discussion, an online forum, send postcards and cartoons). |
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Extension
activities
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- Writing an essay: the most surprising item.
- Creating a presentation about the partner country(ies).
- Role play video clips set in the partner country
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Useful
resources
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Ideas list: symbol, food
item, famous building, coin or
stamp, clothing, famous painting, piece of music, transport, anthem, saying, handcraft, figurine… Video: http://www.teachers.tv/video/29269 |
European Youth Murals Project
http://europeanyouthmurals.wordpress.com/7-2/
Handmade postcard swap and exhibition – Let me introduce myself…
The organisers of the International
Youth Arts Festival in Kingston-upon-Thames, UK want
to invite you and your children to take part in the 2nd IYAF/Schoolswaps
Exhibition in Kingston, which will be running as part of the Kingston
International Youth Arts Festival 2012.This years exhibition theme is simply
called “Let me introduce myself…” and they want you to introduce yourself to
the world on a handmade postcard, which will go on display in a gallery in
Kingston then be sent on to someone else. You can find more details here.
Stamp Out Intolerance Project
Hello dear friends! My students and I have started the Stamp Out Intolerance Project. The idea of the project is to show that we are different but the same, different but unique, different but equal. If you feel like joining the project, just send a stamped postcard to our address. As soon as we get your postcard, we'll put the stamp on the map and send you back our postcard. I'll also email you the addresses of all the participants of the project so you can contact them too. I'm looking forward to your emails to give further details.
Take part in the Great Big School Swap!
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