Where the river flows
Greece-Croatia-Romania
“I still keep coming here To that old river To find my roots just where The future lives forever.” -Scorpions
Our main goal is to cultivate the consciousness of an active European citizen while maintaining our national identity and strengthening our cultural self-knowledge.
Goals
- To make our pupils familiar with Europe geographically and culturally
- To give our pupils the chance to search and find the historical, folklore (myths, habits) and geographical dimensions of each country's’ rivers
- To foster relationships among young people from different ethnic, religion and cultural groups enhancing their tolerance in diversities
- To let our students learn throughout a Project based learning, developing key competences such as: Teamwork, collaboration, communication, social and critical thinking, creativity …
- To work with new technologies, learn how to learn throughout the digital tools
- To let our pupils actively participate to the learning process by reflecting on their strategies
- To expand the results of this collaborative work of our students’ community: school, town, region, country.
- To express their concern over the issue through painting, photography, theater education and general art.
CONTENT
Get to know each other country, school, partner
Highlight one river in each of the 3 countries (Evros in Greece, Sava in Croatia, Cibin in Romania)
Historical and geographical dimensions (myths, habits)
Intangible cultural heritage
Tangible cultural heritage
activities
Getting to know each other
Introduce pupils the project by listening the Scorpions’ song
Pupils introduce themselves in a clever way (a game with questions related to our river. Once our pupils play the game in chain and find the river, they will start working on the next topics in pairs and in transnational groups)
A common brainstorming on how we can explore a river (an answergarden/Padlet)
Form of groups (hikers, pedestrians, bikers, river lovers, fishermen, swimmers)
Create the project’s logo (a drawing on ¼ of A4 page)
Deadline: 10 February
Geographical research
[pollution sources identification -pollution prevention!]
6 padlets for the 6 transnational groups of pupils (hikers, pedestrians….) to work on, posting geographical information
A common blog (using weebly tool) to gather all the material about the rivers
A common tour guide or a poster about the 6 rivers….
Deadline: 15 March
Historical research
[civilisations arise in the presence of a river…]
[how did the river get its name?]
Virtual walking/cycling along the river and getting to know myths, habits, intangible and tangible heritage (6 padlets to put the material there)
A common ebook with myths, habits/traditions, tangible (paintings, musical instruments using water etc.) and intangible heritage (songs, pieces of writing, pieces of instrumental music etc,)
Let the river “tell” a story: pupils, being creative in transnational groups will write 3 different stories about the 3 rivers
Deadline: end of April
River as a bridge of culture
(Festivals/entertainment/folklore, do they connect us or tear us apart?
[22 March 2018 = World Water Day]
[throwing wreaths?]
Pupils will work in national groups: each river will present itself on how it entertains people (festival, concerts, activities in the water or nearby)
A research about possible borders between countries/ rivers as a physical border / common culture maybe)
Pupils will work collaboratively (all pupils from 3 countries to write the river’s common song/ rivers connect us)
Deadline: end of May
Evaluation
Pupils will do the evaluation (answergarden and google forms)
Teachers will evaluate the project (using a rubric maybe)
Parents (a questionnaire or an interview or a focus group…)
Deadline: 10 of June