Kategoria: Italy

The summary of the project

We are about to finish our extended 3 years long project.

Throughout duration of the project we developed the following products: https://padlet.com/tambelli_sylwia/rqmq3gw4sdl5gh6z

  • the logo of the project chosen in the contest
  • podcasts – recording of students’ speeches about effective learning and improving school life
  • dictionaries of sport equipment 
  • collections of Have a nice day and Christmas cards 
  • handouts for keeping proper posture
  • handouts for dealing with Covid19 regulations
  • leaflets about different diets
  • digital games (quizzes, breakout games, quiz shows)
  • educational database for teachers (presentations,lesson plans, worksheets, games)
  • presentations about improving quality of life
  • video footage of mobilities
  • a presentation describing our traditional games
  • designs of ideal classrooms, rules for organizing the space in a classroom
  • e-books published online (diets, sport activities, healthy breakfast tips)
  • e-guide for teachers about applying digital tools while organizing virtual mobilities
  • posters, sketch-notes 
  • graphic works (collages, comics, bookmarks, drawings, handouts, illustrations, mandala panels, poems) 
  • collections of recipes
  • photo relations
  • mind maps
  • curation boards
  • success story – description of the dissemination events

However, apart from the products we designed, the most important were bonds of friendship and the inspiring environment we were able to create. Thank you for being with us.

Traditional games

A collection of rules for traditional games still played, from time to time, in our countries, was prepared as a common product, presented and tried out during a students’ exchange in Portugal. The students explained the rules of the games their parents enjoyed playing outdoors when they were at their children’s age and they had fun together.

The objectives of the activity:

  • encouraging children to spend time outside
  • developing language skills while delivering instructions
  • acquiring social skills and peer-to-peer relationships
  • improving physical health
  • boosting creativity
  • strengthening motor skills
  • learning about other cultures
  • showing respect for traditional games as cultural heritage.

Summing up the project by the Italian team

Here is the summary of this year activities compiled by the students of IC Diotti school from Casalmaggiore. Because of the situation in they region they didn’t take part in mobilities but that does not mean they didn’t work hard trying to:

  • implement healthy habits
  • learn how to manage anxiety
  • develop connecting to others emotionally, being proactive, communicating effectively,
  • overmaster goal setting and working towards them
  • improve speaking skills outside the class by encouraging communication with foreign friends
  • build group cohesion by facing tasks that need researching online or in class, taking action or making common decisions

Let me do it!

To get prepared for functioning in the society and be accepted children should know their roles, rights and a scope of responsibilities. Responsibility generates maturity and increases self-esteem, as the children recognize that they become capable. The sooner they understand their rights and their ability to take responsibility for their actions and behaviour the better, although it is individual based. Teens can provide emotional and practical support to their family and friends and, in this way, build their sense of importance, self-esteem and well-being. To understand how to achieve autonomy and gain social skills, the teens prepared short recordings about how they contribute to their households and how they develop their sense of independence. They were all collected in one digital poster.

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFEuGmnzlw/5On1hlKNgKUm9w4GmqvHcw/view?utm_content=DAFEuGmnzlw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=viewer

The objectives of the activity:

  • developing foreign language competences
  • understanding how they benefit from contributing
  • developing a sense of belonging and gaining respect
  • building self -esteem and a sense of autonomy
  • gaining self-confidence

My health in my hands

3rd Grade students from Italy reflected on what makes them feel good and reduces stress, they give a thought to the importance of physical activity but also consider how they manage time and focus to achieve objectives. Here is a padlet with their short oral presentations on healthy living.

https://padlet.com/mary14ap/ddui17o1b4xqq2dy

The objectives of the activity:

  • recognize physical activity as a healthy behavior
  • encouraging healthy nutrition
  • lunderstanding that lifelong health and wellbeing begins with promoting healthy behaviours early in life 
  • improving writing and speaking in foreign language competences

Wellness and nature

Exposure to nature gives us a great number of benefits, such as improved attention, lowering stress, better mood and last, but not least, it may turn out preventing and treating certain vision ailments as we flex eyes’ muscles trying to focus on objects off in the distance. Exposure to UVB rays triggers the release of dopamine and circulates vitamin D in the body. All these processes help to preserve good health and a positive attitude.

To understand a connection between nature and our well-being and realize our responsibility to protect and sustain the Earth, our students took part in classes during which they discussed the habits they can adopt to save the Earth. They created cartoon strips and illustrated their own obligations to change their habits. We organized also going out to adventure parks and the beach in order to promote active ways of spending free time outside.

E-guide for teachers

Not only did students benefit from the project, the teachers did either. We learned a lot since for some time we had to quit all the traditional methods and learn how to deal with the virtual reality. We managed to do it and, moreover, we decided to share our finding with other teachers. Gathering all our findings, observations and experiences gained during virtual meetings we decided to develop our own guide over tried-out solutions and IC tools which were applied for different activities. It is not a ICT guide sensu stricte. Some tips for using tools are included, but it is supposed to inspire rather than be a manual.

The objectives of publishing this guide:

  • encouraging the wide spread of ideas
  • sharing good practices
  • disseminating information about some tools to the community 
  • encouraging virtual collaboration
  • disseminating results produced throughout the duration of the project
  • extending the frontiers of creativity and imagination
  • inspiring those who want to organize virtual or blended mobilities but don’t know how to start it.

Here you may download the guide:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dzpiy_KE4MkAvOijTa9ILhsxSdfYdYEJ/view?usp=sharing

Nutritional steps guide

To promote understanding what the food consists of we developed the guide with recipes for healthy snacks, leaflets with information about different diets, students also built 3D molecules in order to present the nutrients found in Mediterranean diet foods and they made posters about the basic elements found in food. All the recipes, step by step instructions, daily menus and the information about lunches were collected in one common publication. https://www.canva.com/design/DAFKsMATQ0w/YLSr2AU5U9O7jvS6gzFNow/view?utm_content=DAFKsMATQ0w&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink

Polish students also collected recipes for salads and smoothies on one padlet https://padlet.com/tambelli_sylwia/l27de5ffs3k7cwr3

Virtual mobility

Because of an epidemic situation in Europe none of the countries is willing to take a risk and organize a mobility. That’s why we decided to set up virtual mobilities. All the details were agreed on during a virtual meeting of all the school coordinators and the Italian team offered to organize the first one. Since it was supposed to concern relationship, emotions and their positive influence on our mental health, we decided to organize it in Christmas spirit just before the Christmas holiday. Before the meeting students uploaded some short information about themselves on the common padlet and they made collages presenting things which make them happy. 

During the meeting we took part in the following activities organized by the Italian team:

  • quizzes about relationships, naming the stages of relationships
  • discussing reasons for our feeling emotional
  • making ’emotional alphabets’
  • brainstorming for qualities which are crucial for being a loyal friend
  • shortlisting the essential traits of a good friend
  • considering possible causes of anger issues 
  • checking how well we know our Christmas customs by playing a Kahoot quiz on which we all collaborated

Both the teachers and students were happy to see their friends and listen to them. Technology this time was almost on our side so we were able to participate fully in the planned activities. We finished the two-hour long meeting wishing each other Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.  

Legality Day

In today’s social environment schools should building awareness and opportunities for civic awareness and action and students should learn the value of civic participation. Giving students some grounds of civic education we teach them how to work within a system. They are also taught prioritization of social values, constraints of the state laws and rules of true democracy. People can thrive and achieve their objectives only in societies where their rights are respected, and the rules established are obeyed. Students from IC  Diotti in Casalmaggiore dealth with the most  serious fears about the condition of our society: widespread dishonesty, lack of solidarity and empathy, a lost sense of community, carelessness about the weaker. Being aware of the risks helped them  face the reality and do whatever it takes to straighten things up.They worked together on the script for a special episode on legality, which was recorded in order to celebrate the National Day in Memory and they presented topics related to legality and presented it on stage on the last day of school year. https://padlet.com/marinabonfatti010/lt20l05jpukwwn75?fbclid=IwAR2VV79Ta0o6WJNoHJs0M_z60fzWcKCqOTIXVDnClaEt49bK40Eg2ALTuv0