This presentation is a teamwork. We used web

1. Winters in Europe
Black group
eTwinning Learning Lab
Exploiting Web 2.0
October – November 2010

2. Who we are?
• Valerica Danaila- Tecuci, Romania
• Jolanta Okuniewska-Poland
• Mariano Suárez (Asturies, Spanish
State)
• Tania Formosa-Malta
• Paola Arduini ( Italy- Rome)

3. Details and short description
• Age of the pupils: 7-10,
• Used language: main English, but Polish, Romanian, Spanish,
Maltese, Italian, too
• Duration: 3 months
• School type: primary
• Activities:
1. Talking / drawing about winter in our countries, making posters with
pictures about winter in our own countries
2. Winter traditions
3. Winter activities
4. Winter songs, rhymes
5. Feasts we celebrate in Winter
6. Observation of nature in winter ( a corner in our garden)

4. Goals
• 1. To learn more about our partners
• 2. To find out similarities / differencies
• 3. To improve the perception of oneself in
the natural and cultural environment in
which they live.
• 4. To improve ICT skills.
• 5. To improve English

5. Pedagogical basis
• Cooperative work in the classroom.
• Constructivist development of language.
• Work of observation, analysis and
comparison of data and information on the
natural and cultural environment.
• Knowledge of linguistic and cultural
plurality of Europe.
• Cooperative work in a larger community of
learners

6. Task description – tools to be used
– First month
• Presentation of the students and schools:
exchange of photos, emails and presentations.
• Exchange of work / pictures about winter in our
own countries (photo gallery, PowerPoint
presentations, digital books, videos ...).
• Publishing the materials in the blog.
• In each school garden students choose a corner
to observe and take photos to register changes
during winter time

7. Task description – tools to be used
– Second month
• Exchange of materials on winter activities
and traditions of each country: traditional
foods, festivals, folk tales, games, sports...
• Exchange of work in various formats:
PowerPoint presentations, digital books,
videos...
• Placement of the materials in the blog
using Slide Share / Picasa or Flickr / Video
maker / Teacher Tube.

8. Task description – tools to be used
– Third month
• Each participating school will record a
video with a song of winter in our country.
• All schools will record another video with a
very popular winter song in English.
Video-sharing between schools.
• Publishing of the materials in the blog
using PodOmatic/ Videomaker.
• Final evaluation of the project developed.

9. GOOD LUCK!

10. GOOD LUCK!