FINLAND ITALY

HEROES-COMENIUS

Our COMENIUS PROJECT 2013 / 2014

To raise awareness among young Europeans about the significance of learning Europe’s history and heritage while creating opportunities for mutual understanding

To find and discover some heroes of the history of a country and present them to the other one (working on-line during the year from October to March

To write and act imaginary interviews with these heroes in an history show (working face to face during the exchange in Spring)

Finding heroes We’ll find some heroes in the history of each country in different fields of life and culture Discovering heroes Presenting heroes Every country will present the selected heroes of his history sending files about them to the other country. These files will be multimedia ones (texts, audio, video, pictures, short video lessons, links to websites) and will be uploaded in the website of the school. Discussing heroes Every country will discuss the files about the life and the work of the heroes of the other country. Every opinion and question will be shared in periodical videoconferences among Italian and Finnish students. The history show STEPS

- All the files about selected heroes will be written in English, Italian and Finnish. The same about the interviews during the exchange.

12/2013 All files about Finnish heroes uploaded in the website of Cignaeus-lukio. 4/2013 All imaginary interviews done during the exchange in Finland. The History Show recorded in a video. 4/2013 Evaluation forms of the work online during the year and of the exchange in Finland 2/2014 All files about Italian heroes uploaded in the website of Alessandro da Imola. 4/2014All imaginary interviews done during the exchange in Italy. The History Show recorded in a video. 4/2014 Evaluation forms of the work online during the year and of the exchange in Italy. 5/2014 All files about Finnish and Italian heroes and all videos of the History Show collected in a final DVD

HERE AND NOW - All pupils will discuss about the meaning of the word ''Hero'' to use in the project. - Finnish students will select 12 heroes from the history of Finland (from the past to nowadays) in different fields. - Finnish students will be split in 12 groups (7-8 each group): 1 group will work on 1 hero. - Every group will discover their hero finding information, interviewing teachers or experts and producing multimedia material about him/her to upload every week from half November on the website of the Finnish/ ITALIAN school. - Italian students will read and discuss these files in 4 videoconferences (one for each month) with their Finnish friends. - During the exchange every group will write and recite the imaginary interview with their hero in the History Show

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