Examples of iTEC Learning Activities by Teacher Academy

George Kyriakopoulos

gkyriakopoul197 — 2017-01-30 09:48:16 UTC

Hardly do i take my students out of the classroom... to be franc, when it happens so it;s for games and interaction. The stepping stones presented in the presentation look a lot alike the steps I take when i deal with a project but indoors. Mental notes, teamwork and peer feedback are all parts of stepping stones that lead up to the completion of the project.

Sonia, Spain

2017-01-30 10:04:20 UTC

students receive instructions through videos or other resources before the lessons starts, then the student does activities to improve their own learning. The teacher supports the students' learning. On the contrary the traditional model of learning is based upon doing tasks to consolidate what the student has learnt without the councelling of the teacher

Sonia, Nis, Serbia

2017-01-30 10:04:42 UTC

near schools is an archeological site from Roman times. We visited the site, and the head of the archaeological project and inventor of the same, Toni Čerškov, gave a lecture to students! Very suitable for the first school day (we learned a lot about Constantine the Great, who was born in Nis! We did geometric shapes by the way)

Maria Rosaria Tafuro, Italy

tafymar — 2017-01-30 10:15:54 UTC

Once in the past my students took part of a project aiming at showing other people all the ancient monuments present in our village. They went out with camera to take photos and video of all the ancients monuments .They were divided into groups of 4 or 5 students . each group had the task to explore and document a particular zone of the village.as they had collected their data , they put together them ,explaining the reason why it was an important document to take into consideration for our research.At last they wrote a label for each monument where there was written the history and the importance of the monument

Stavroula L, Greece

2017-01-30 11:35:52 UTC

Primary school-4th grade.
Activites outside my classroom:
a) recycle and protect our close environment outside our school
b) recognize the street signs.
Activities back to classroom:
a) in teams, write and sort our findings
b) make posters
c) peer review and assessments.

gabriella, italy

2017-01-30 11:51:35 UTC

I WOULD invite students to investigate also on the net in order to get more information about their activity. at the end i would propose to print the most important steps of the activity and to show it in teh school.

Anita, Simac

anita_simac — 2017-01-30 12:07:01 UTC

Correlation between mathematics (the subject I teach) and other subjects through projects is always exciting for the children. It involves more preparation but is more rewarding as the children remember these lessons longer.
Mathematics and geography/history/biology are examples of correlations I have used. Investigating the geometrical shapes of old buildings in our town, calculating events in history, looking for symmetry in plants and animals....so many examples.

Fadime Sezgek, Turkiye

2017-01-30 12:48:29 UTC

Since I am an English language teacher, When I send my students outside the classroom to practice their language with the tourists, it is usually for preparing their project homework. They can do it in pairs or in groups. after the teacher explain the challenge and distrubition of the tasks among the members of the group. The group starts to work together. Before they go to the city center and find some tourists, they have to prepare the interview questions to be asked to the tourists. They record the conversations with their mobile phones or tablets, take some notes, etc... At the end they prepare a short film or power point presentation to be present in the classroom.

Despoina Amarantidou, Greece

damarant — 2017-01-30 13:02:25 UTC

I do not take my students out because special permit is needed for this. My students usually work on the computers in groups.

La _biro, Italia

MaestraRoberta — 2017-01-30 13:47:49 UTC

That would be the part about the history of scientific instruments very interesting with six children to flesh Searches What They use for surveys. That argument poterebbe be part of another section of the video.

Simona, Italy

2017-01-30 14:00:10 UTC

Team work and direct experimentation of data are important steps which teachers have to adopt...our students need real-life experience and technological one. The main problem to activate this process in my school is permissions from families and school to take the students out of the institute and the lacking of collaboration with colleagues...sometimes, too.

Daniela C., Romania

2017-01-30 14:02:26 UTC

s In my opinion students learn more easily while seeing and doing. Collaboration and different tasks makes them more captivated and interested in learning.

Gina, Itay

2017-01-30 14:26:08 UTC

My students collect leaves and then classify them.

Ayhan, Turkey

2017-01-30 14:31:44 UTC

My studemts went out to ask the people their months of birthday. The subject was probability. How many people need to ask their month of birthday so minimum two persons if only month of birthday should be the same? It was really good a leraning activitiy out of classroom. Students have figured out the maths in live outside

José Ramón- Spain

2017-01-30 14:38:44 UTC

We do many different activities according to the age of our pupils.

But one we do in all the courses is one related with our greenhouse. We ask students to take school from home some seeds. They plant them in small in the classroom and once the seeds have started growing up we take them to the green house and plant them there. When we have food (peppers, lettuce, tomatoes) students collect them and then we prepare a small market for the parents to buy them.

3rd 4th 5th and 6th grade students are asked to send an email to their parents asking them to come to the market.

6th grade students also take part in etwinning project and once every 15 days they go to the computer room to work with the project.

Miriam Scafati, Italy

miriamscafatihpg23 — 2017-01-30 14:41:23 UTC

Students learn more easily while they see, do and work in team.

Dora, Greece

ntanouth — 2017-01-30 15:24:11 UTC

Primary school students outside school could
a) recycle
b) learn the history of their region
c) investigate the flora and the fauna

Donatella, Italy

2017-01-30 15:35:09 UTC

Some of my students have just taken part in a conference about Palestinian culture and history. Before and after watching two documentary movies, they listened to the filmaker's comments and then asked questions together with other students from another school. It was really interesting and motivating and they collected information and material to create an original product of their own to witness what they have learned.

Maria Grazia G., (Italy)

2017-01-30 15:51:13 UTC

2017-01-30 15:54:43 UTC

Francesca

francesca_lombardi1973 — 2017-01-30 16:05:09 UTC

The children in a primary school can draw from the reality, count stones or flowers, recognize colors and shapes in english as a second language, classify the leaves and many others.

Ercília - Portugal

erciliacosta — 2017-01-30 16:07:56 UTC


We have an environmental transdisciplinary project that leads the students to investigate and contact the populations.

Marta Tarantino

2017-01-30 16:17:47 UTC

Students involved in an eTwinning project interview elderly people in their small Griko speaking town. Firstly they will do some online research about the history of this minority language and identify some reliable sources with the help of the teacher. They will brainstorm in groups ideas in order to identify questions to ask their grandparents and elderly people. They discuss the ideas. In groups they interview people: each group will have a specific topic to investigate.Some students will record on their smartphones, other will take pics and/or record videos. In the classroom the students in groups will edit and create presentations with the use of a number of tools for multimedia creation. The products will be shared and peer reviewed by means of answergarden or other tool.

Federica, Italy

FedeTagliafichi — 2017-01-30 16:23:19 UTC

My students are involved in many etwinning project. They are 7 years old and they are discovering that they can pratice their knowledge in different contest and disciplines

Kristina Kaučić, Croatia

2017-01-30 16:24:39 UTC

My students like to take part in eTwinning projects. Those projects are PBL and they collaborate a lot with their peers.

Irène - Belgium

2017-01-30 16:27:46 UTC

We want our students to discover identifying marks of World War I in the center of our city. We develop an interactive scavenger hunt in the Actionbound app. The students can find the assignments/info at each mark via QR-codes and they can immediately send their answers (text - photos - videos - ...) to the teacher.

Maria Luisa, Turin, Italy

2017-01-30 16:52:38 UTC

Visiting an Art Museum may offer a good opportunity to build the Learning outside, following these stepping stones to plan exciting activities. The mental notes, the team newsflashes and the peer feedback are the turning points to structure collaborative work in the classroom.

Caro (Italy)

carol_f — 2017-01-30 16:56:49 UTC

Outside the classroom I could experience an activity to progect a green area in our school garden. This experience involved an outside expert (agronomist) and different teachers: Maths, Tec, Science, L1. Students also shared this experience with all the students of our school, taking part in the “Green wave” an International activity which consists in planting a new tree and watering it at the same hour all over the world.

Great experience!

Here is a short video of that moment:

Giuseppina Serini, Italy

ser_giu — 2017-01-30 17:16:30 UTC

I experimented with various outdoor activities, esmpio research on the history of streets, squares and historic buildings of the city, or an iconographic study of landscapes captured with photos and movies or even research on production activity.

Ana Pinheiro, Portugal

aipinheiro — 2017-01-30 17:21:45 UTC

The students, as a group, go outside the school space to investigate and survey existing species of flora. Each group chose their route. For the survey, the students photographed the species and collected some structures that were on the ground (leaves, fruts, ...). They used in the place, app for the identification of the species.In the classroom, they did research on each species and shared (all groups) in a padlet the information collected.This padlet was shared with a professor at the University, a specialist in botany, to confirm the research.Subsequently this information will be disseminated to the entire school community through a blog.

Edit, Hungary

tothedit0610 — 2017-01-30 17:25:46 UTC

Besides the two main subjects Geography and Biology more subjects can be involved in this learning process: Maths: calculations, IT: by using different tools, native languages: taking notes and writing essays, History: making investigations about animal invasions in History, P.E: chasing ladybird or playing some outdoor games, Physics: learning about thermometers and elements, Arts: drawings of ladybirds and designing ladybird-patterned everyday objects like clothes, bags, etc., Music: searching for pieces of music having a connection with animals or nature. The whole project-based learning could be given a creative name like: "Spot out the invasion of the spotty creatures!" or "On track of the boom of ladybirds"
At my school we usually take the kids to museums , which they do not really enjoy, so more learning destinations should be involved: forests, fields, factories, average, everyday work places like a bank, hospital etc."

Isabelle Squillaci Bari _Italy

squillaci_isabelle — 2017-01-30 17:44:09 UTC

this year my students are involved in a eTwinning project and their can use their knowledge in different contest and discipline as French, Religion, Geography, Art History...it is a good opportunity to build the Learning outside .
they like it

Diego Tich, Croatia

2017-01-30 17:53:41 UTC

Two months ago we visit a Museum of experiments and students with their hands experimently prove some things that they learn in a classroom.

Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy

soleemare_a — 2017-01-30 18:18:39 UTC

When I ask students to do an investigation, I suggest to use Padlet to gather all the material together: researches, surveys, photos and videos can easily coòllected and organised on this useful but simple webtool. A final presentation of the investigation can be showcased with the help of Thinglink: students can create interactive mindmaps to summarize up their topic.

Ksenija from Serbia

2017-01-30 18:21:56 UTC

I have never taken my students outdoors, but this year I am going to try this activity. We`re working on an eTwinning project about bees and we plan to organise a safe surrounding for our bees. We`ll make some beehives, put in a queen bee and other bees, we`ll have some bee keepers sharing their experience with us and a lot of other workshops. My students are so creative, motivated and they have so nice ideas.It is so nice working with them.
If I succeed in working outdoor, I`ll try again with some other subject.

Arnaud Perrier, France

2017-01-30 18:38:03 UTC

Students can create an exhibition on a subject for the rest of the school. This exhibition may contain posters, presentations, films. One can even imagine that some students can make presentations in front of their classmates, like small conferences.

Dimitra, Brussels

2017-01-30 19:17:58 UTC

It is essential that young children get frequent and regular opportunities to explore and learn in the outdoor environment. Kindergarten teachers place strong emphasis on the importance and value of outdoor experiences for children's learning and development. Learning outside the classroom supports the development of healthy and active lifestyles by offering opportunities for physical activity, freedom and movement and promoting a sense of well-being. Learning outside the classroom gives children contact with the natural world and offers them experiences that are unique, such as direct contact and observation of the weather and the seasons, as well as the life cycles of animals and plants. Outdoor play, also, supports children's problem-solving skills and develops their creativity, imagination and inventiveness.
Let us not forget that very young pupils learn predominately through their sensory and physical experiences......

Mary Koleta- Greece

2017-01-30 19:19:06 UTC

I think that a field trip could be used in this learning scenario. Students could visit a Natural Science Museum , so as to see for themselves the exhibits, make drawings, take notes, ask experts in the field etc. Our students often visit historic sights or museums, especially in the subjects of History or Science and they find it strongly motivating. I think it is much easier for them to work on an activity after having experienced the real thing, rather than being bombardised with input from their teachers. Even if you can't take learning outseide the classroom, you can organise video sessions with other regions or countries. This is the major advantage of E-twinning projects!

Dora, T. Greece

2017-01-30 19:51:29 UTC

Students adore learning outside classroom. They are willing to coallaborate and seek for information. They are more disciplined and more

I think that this kind of lesson is very useful for elementary and junior school where teachers can work together, but in high school, especially in my country, is very difficult to collaborate because we don't have enough time.

2017-01-30 20:05:23 UTC

Antonella, Italy

Salva, Spain

2017-01-30 20:07:22 UTC

I usually go out of class and use the environment to teach geomantic forms in the things around us, for example. Our environment is the best scenario to teach, however we must prepare the activity previously (maternal, group, time) and identify, as the video tells us, what skills we want to work and what we will evaluate in these activities.

Valeria Viola

valeria72 — 2017-01-30 20:34:57 UTC

I think another learning activity could be, in addition to taking photos, to sketch things on a notebook. The drawing can be completed after with other pictures taken from the Internet

Patrizia Sebastiano

2017-01-30 21:11:29 UTC

Students like learning outside classroom. They collaborate and study more

Ana, Portugal

sofiasalonso — 2017-01-30 21:50:47 UTC

I know that students enjoy learning outside classroom very much. They are willing to collaborate and seek for information.

I usually go on study visits that joins multiple subjects where students can investigate and contact data. In my opinion students learn more easily while seeing and doing, putting the theory into practice. Collaboration and different tasks makes them more captivated and interested in learning. Also, my students took part of a project when here they showed other people all the existing monuments in our village. They took photos and recorded videos of all the monuments to help them building mockups. After finishing them, we made an exhibition for all the community.

Zulmira, Portugal

zulmiramag — 2017-01-30 21:59:34 UTC

One little activity I did recently was the construction of a quadrant and with it, students went outside school to observe the top of the school building and check the angle that the sight line does with the horizontal. Students measured on the ground, their distance from the building and, using trigonometry students calculated the height of the building. They repeated the experience at different distances and found that the angle was different but they got the same height of the building. In class, they used Geogebra to change the angle and distance values on the ground to get the same height. Then, they recorded their findings in the class Padlet. It was a different way to understand Trigonometry and how to use it.

Betül, Turkey

idelier — 2017-01-30 23:37:11 UTC

My English learner students prepare their own magazins or books of learned subjects collecting the materials from outside and they would send their works Via WhatsApp.

Amelia De Chiara, Italy

amelia_dechiara — 2017-01-31 06:15:08 UTC

After doing an investigation, my students usually have a sharing moment: each team show the collected results to rest of the classroom and answer the questions made by the classmates.

Shukufa Najafova Azerbaijan

2017-01-31 07:57:23 UTC

I must say that students enjoy learning outside classroom very much. They are willing to collaborate and seek for information.

In my opinion students learn more easily while seeing and doing, putting the theory into practice. Collaboration and different tasks makes them more captivated and interested in learning. Also, my students took part of a project when here they showed other people all the existing monuments in our village. They took photos and recorded videos of all the monuments. After finishing them, we made an exhibition for all the community.

2017-01-31 08:06:16 UTC

Students like learning outside classroom. They collaborate and study more

Daniela, Romania

danielamioarachisalita — 2017-01-31 08:09:19 UTC

Children enjoy more activities in the outdoors. Direct contact with nature helps them learn easier about the changes that occur in the natural environment. Thus they have the opportunity to learn from each other, collaborate on tasks.

Anna, Germany

Frau_Kap — 2017-01-31 08:43:59 UTC

I think that this scenario already involves enough and well thought through learning activities, so I wouldn't use more. I also let my kids work in teams when they learn outside (this can sometimes also be a "digital outside"). Collecting data is something I quite often use in English by using surveys or questionnaires. Instead of a team newsflash, I used a quiz. In general I'd like to increase my outdoor learning activities for students.

Anne Fischer, Berlin

2017-01-31 09:02:00 UTC

My students very often work in teams and mental and written notes about my learners is critical to my holistic assessment of a student. Peer feedback plays an important role in any project or group activity that I conduct. Unfortunately, I do not go out as much as I would like to- perhaps that is the downside of teaching in the city.

Marchilia Volini Kendall, Naples, Italy

marchilia — 2017-01-31 09:05:43 UTC

I would add some reflection as a learning activity. For instance a moment of
Self-Assessment could be beneficial for students: after students have completed a learning activity or assessment task, the teacher should provide them with a set of criteria to use to assess the quality of their work.

Helga, Croatia

2017-01-31 11:04:52 UTC

Such outdoog activities can be as interesting to high-schoolstudents as to younger learners.

Ezgi Ulutan, Turkey

2017-01-31 12:50:13 UTC

Learning activity based on problem based activity related to nature and local environment. When students go outside, all of them different equipment to examine the environment. Some of them take photo and some of them measure the temperature. Teacher's role is observer and coach. Students can share their work, examine the results and identify the data

Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece

psaridou — 2017-01-31 15:19:40 UTC

I found the activities very good and enough. However, if I had to add one more that would be a digital book made by students.
In my class, I often use teamwork as my main strategy. Students are separated into mixed groups that often change in order all of them to work with each other. We also used an outside expert more than once. In fact, our last expert was used in an E-twinning project where kids took an interview of him.

Elena Chis, Romania

lenuta_chis — 2017-01-31 15:37:26 UTC

Children enjoy a lot of outdoor activities. I have my students involved in community projects in collaboration with the city hall or church.

Ruben, Pt

ramc — 2017-01-31 15:46:43 UTC

I think it is transversal to all countries, and even at all levels of education, the fact that students learn better, through experiences, extra classroom / school, empirical knowledge is very effective and "long-lasting" ...

Mihaela, Romania

ciuchi_mihaela — 2017-01-31 16:38:14 UTC

In such activities interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary were offering students contact with reality.Because the students discover themselves and build together the final product I consider the out-learning activities with more impact on learning.

Caterina, Italy

2017-01-31 17:18:50 UTC

learning outside the classroom helps to bring the curriculum to life because it provides deeper subject learning and increases self-confidence.

Ankica, Croatia

ankica1403 — 2017-01-31 17:47:41 UTC

Moving learning outside of the classroom requires a lot of planning and preparation, for the students as well for the teachers but it is worth it. Students like working on a project outside the classroom and using their knowledge in a practical way. It's also important to share students' work on a project with others – students, teachers, parents. ICT makes it easier.

Cristina from Italy

prof_cau — 2017-01-31 18:29:52 UTC

After the work of research groups, both inside and outside the school, I think it is important to share their work with the rest of the class to which you should also get a critique and feedback.

CHRISTOS,GREECE

christos_chachoudis — 2017-01-31 18:52:26 UTC

IT'S A VERY GOOD LEARNING ACTIVITY, I THINK AFTER OUTSIDE ACTIVITY THEY COULD GIVE EACH OTHER THEIR WORK AND HAVE A PEER FEEDBACK ABOUT HOW THEY FIND THE OTHERS WORK. THEY COULD ALSO HAVE A VIDEO CONFERENCE WITH AN EXPERT ABOUT INSECTS. THE ACTIVITY WAS VERY VERY GOOD REGARDING CHILDREN INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION.

Clara Abegão, Portugal

claraabegao — 2017-01-31 19:15:21 UTC

I like outdoor activities a lot! My students are used to participate in many outdoor activities - we are having one the day after tomorrow ;-), and at the end, they make an interactive presentation. Most of all, I think OA increases motivation, overall behavior, communication skills, problem solving and decision making skills. They encourage a positive "opting in" and "can do" attitude, reinforcing perseverance and determination. Values and attitudes developed in a context of shared endeavour also help to form a sound basis for responsible citizenship. Outdoor activities are a way of training and recreation that promote active learning through direct personal experience (students take greater responsibility for their own learning) and, at the same time, offers excitement and fun in a relaxed time spent with their teachers and colleagues. At the same time, they fosters sensitivity to the environment, help young people to see themselves in a global context and help to develop citizens with an awareness of the need for sustainable use of the world’s natural resources.

Annamaria Egido, Italy

2017-01-31 19:16:24 UTC

I have never taken my students outdoors . I must say that students enjoy learning outside classroom very much. They are willing to collaborate and seek for information.

Ana Ventura, Spain

2017-01-31 19:22:07 UTC

I THINK THAT A GOOD LEARNING ACTIVITY COULD ALSO CONSIST ON RECORDING THE PROCESS OF INVESTIGATION AND WORK OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM SO THAT CHILDREN THEMSELVES WOULD BE ABLE TO WATCH IT AND ASSES THEIR OWN ROLE IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING AND TEACHING.

Corine, France

corineholroyd — 2017-01-31 21:20:40 UTC

I use experts outside the classroom, quite a lot, and I find there are lots of experts !Interviewing your friends, your parents or professionnals instead of looking for the answer on the internet is usefull. We can then share various point o view using all kind of technology (padlet, googledrive for example).

amael kervarrec Colombia

amael_kervarrec1 — 2017-01-31 21:48:06 UTC

It's important to understand that all children don't need to make the same task, it'is difficult to understand for the most teachers here

Zvonimira, Croatia

2017-01-31 22:23:57 UTC

It is interesting to observe the students when they are outside the classroom. You notice many skills that may not be shown in the classroom

Vanesa, Croatia

2017-02-01 08:06:28 UTC

Very interesting and useful.

Emanuela, Italy

2017-02-01 08:16:48 UTC

I use activity outside school with observation and teamwork. This activity is very interesting for students, Sometimes I use external experts, who talk to students about a specific subject .

Laura Pagnozzi,Italy

pagnozzi_laura — 2017-02-01 10:30:25 UTC

I used a similar approach in my teaching, students outside the classroom could fografare and try monuments and houses where you could see a symmetry of artifacts, and then in the class you showed the figures both flat and solid. Team-up the instrument does not know him and I think it's a way to share the work, develop it and enrich it with content, and evaluation.

Sevastiani Greece

anniroulia — 2017-02-01 11:07:03 UTC

when we go outside of classroom for an environmental project we are usually divided into teams and each team has a task. one team investigates, another is taking photos, another starts to design in papers what they inspect and another collect items to carry them in the classroom. I do some preparation activities before going out like reading a similar book, discuss, ask inquiring questions, etc, I have prepared some activities during the visit like item haunting, and of course some after the visit activities for evaluation.

Tonia-Gragnano-Italy

tonia_calo — 2017-02-01 11:25:09 UTC

I can remember that we had an outside study project during a Comenius Bilateral activity. We went to Oasis Alento and students after collecting data about different aspect of the river had to Make Practical Experiments
to demonstrate their data

Alessandra Murgia

2017-02-01 14:45:21 UTC

I used a similar approach with projects carried out in collaboration with the L1 teacher: one of these projects aimed to develop in students research, presentation and communication skills ; they made researches on an archaeological site near the school, they were divided in different groups, each with a different part of the itinerary ( a temple, the Roman theatre, the Roman baths, etc.), they learnt the information in order to become young tourist guides for the yearly "Open Monuments" day. One of the final products was the history of the site in form of comic strips.
There weren't so many digital tools at our disposal then, just computers, Internet , good legs ( we walked from school to the site, which is fairly big) and creativity.

Valérie, France

iiseeproject — 2017-02-01 17:38:45 UTC

I don't very often go outside with my classes. I think I will try to experiment new ways of teaching and learning including people from outside of school and doing real-life projects. i'm trying to innovate but the school system sometimes prevents us from doing so with the rules, disciplines...Colleagues are not always ready either to work collaboratively. I'll go on innivating and trying new things in my school though

Alina Popa -Romania

popalina21 — 2017-02-01 18:35:08 UTC

I usually don`t go outside the class. But if I would do that I will probably use the same activities as shown in the video. Themes of searching, collecting data, systematize the information, video-presentation, final survey . And conclusions. Maybe a kind of homework for continuing the subject...next time.

Serenella Silenzi, Italy

2017-02-01 20:51:28 UTC

I rarely go with my students outside our classroom, we go only while developing European projects with our partners. Yet we often work on PBL projects and my pupils go outside with my colleagues teaching technical and scientific subjects or they go on their own in order to find and analyse data to develop their projects and produce their outputs. They love it.

Maria Calà, Italy

ilacrisere — 2017-02-01 20:58:40 UTC

Rarely use learning outside the classroom or school because I like to observe the mental and social dynamics that my students bring into the field to complete a job. This way I can know them more deeply, having little time available. But if I had to try this new strategy, I think the students have fun a lot in learning outside of the classroom.

Angelina Alberico, Italy

2017-02-01 21:39:46 UTC

I played a few activities out of the classroom, but the few times the kids had fun and learned so much. Unfortunately there are many possibilities to bring our students out of the classroom.

Maria Giuseppa Sallemi, Italy

2017-02-02 03:57:33 UTC

I usually bring my student outdoor, because when they make or see learned better, but I want to know how improve the organization to make teamwork and peer feedback that lead up to the completion of the project.

Angela P.,Italy

2017-02-02 08:02:30 UTC

Usually the activities that children play outside of school are organized with other parallel classes such as trips, visits on the territory, projects etc. and I see that the children feel more involved and motivated

Almudena Romero, Spain

romero_almudena — 2017-02-02 09:52:46 UTC

I deeply regret not doing outdoor activities apart from those programmed as extracurricular ones.
I organise work inside the classroom. Two lessons are organised as traditional lessons (I mean my role there is the traditional one transmitting information) and the other two lessons are organised in the ITC room where students can work on the website I have created for them. The work in these two lesson is organised individually or in groups depending on the task. I want to improve teamwork and peer feedback. I need to learn more.

Fulvia, Italy

fulvia_colzi — 2017-02-02 11:42:53 UTC

We believe outdoors activities are really important for kids. they learn a lot of things, become familiar with the environment, work on real tasks. Observe, measure, test, draw, count, collect data, make experiments, catalogue, compare, take photos and videos, write down ideas , conclusions or solutions, give feedback, share data, present to class, and much more. All these activites can involve every subject.

Inga, Latvia

elksne_inga — 2017-02-02 13:38:09 UTC

Going outside is a good practice for subjects like science, geography, art. I am not sure about language classes. And I think that it is a project, not a regular lesson because if I have a class of 23 10-years-olds, I don't think it's a good idea.

Marianthi Arvanitidou-Greece

1canislupus22 — 2017-02-02 14:20:20 UTC

Outdoor activities are very interactive

Laurence, Reunion, Fr

llevesque — 2017-02-02 14:26:56 UTC

As a math teacher, most of time I have to figure out a way to make my subject a support for other subjects. Because directly observing maths is not so obvious!

antonio

2017-02-02 15:05:37 UTC

for me is quite impossible to make out doorlessonsbut i can do it into laboratory!

Carmela, Italy

2017-02-02 15:12:57 UTC

The teacher must design learning paths that stress different ability to develop students' skills. The class must be a group that does research, he discovers and builds knowledge. The teacher should be a facilitator, by proposing different activities that stimulate the different intelligences, and meet the different learning styles of the students.
I organize the classroom teaching, but I try it stimulate in students the pleasure of research and work in groups. I do not like lectures, but I prefer to see my students work together, discuss, seek solutions to issues that I submit them.

Maria Anna Casoria

goli291174 — 2017-02-02 16:31:34 UTC

Students could collect data outside the school, by conducting a vox populi inteview with peers or with adults.

Ioannis Velonakis, Greece

2017-02-02 16:45:08 UTC

The learning activities in the proposed scenario are very interesting and more or less enough for its purpose, yet I would also propose the creation of a co-working group in social media (e.g. Facebook, Google+, Viber), where students can share their team-work and their ideas and collaborate with each other. Apart from the activities referred in this Scenario, when learning is moved outside the classroom or when doing an investigation, we create blogs, we make statistics using spreadsheets like MS Office Excel and we visit places which may have some interest for our investigation, like museums, factories, universities, scientific laboratories and research centers. In general, students like taking part in investigations and learning activities outside the classroom.

Simona S. Italy

2017-02-02 16:51:31 UTC

Students could interview their parents and then they share their ideas

HULYA BAL -TURKEY

2017-02-02 17:11:43 UTC

I think the FCL scenarios is the forerunner that the innovation and creativity. In education, students, parents, teachers should work in cooperation.

Arianna, Italy

arix — 2017-02-02 18:44:56 UTC

students enjoy learning outside classroom very much.

Antónia Brandão, PT

dolores_brandao — 2017-02-02 19:55:05 UTC

When moving the learning outside of the classroom students can do a lot of activities and on the Padlet we can find many good examples. I speak for myself...i invite my students to take photos and notes, to enjoy the moment and observe all the things that are happening , and most of the times they must fill a worksheet . It's a very profitable moment and we know that many things are learned on these moments

Rosa/ Italy The learning activities in the proposed scenario are very interesting and more or less enough for its purpose, yet I would also propose the creation of a co-working group in social media (e.g. Facebook, Google+, Viber), where students can share their team-work and their ideas and collaborate with each other.

2017-02-02 20:15:42 UTC

Athina, Greece

aginoudi — 2017-02-02 20:30:55 UTC

I would propose also students to use a GPS device to record the coordinates of the findings, so that they can present them on an interactive map using the Google Earth tool.

Susana, Portugal

ssilva9 — 2017-02-02 20:51:26 UTC

I don't usually do outdoor activities. I teach maths, I know that there are a lot of activities that can be done outside, but I feel like I don't have time for this, because the curriculum is very restrictive and these activities require some extra time. So the first thing to change is this way of seeing things.

In this scenario the mathematics could be used as a support to process and organize numerical data.

Visnja, Serbia

2017-02-03 10:19:56 UTC

I rarely do the outdoor activities, but from time to time, I take sudents to the local Museum or castle, ( I`m a History teacher). I liked the activity with a nice driving question, and I think that I would plan my next activity as a research, like this one. I`m just sorry that we couldn`t see the role of the Geography teacher in the project.

Margarida Almeida, Portugal

2017-02-03 10:47:10 UTC

I work in a rural school with few transports, so it is very difficult to study outside. When I work the description or the poetry I do some classes outside. Students like it!

Zdravka, Croatia

zdravkakramaric — 2017-02-03 12:49:15 UTC

Students learn more outside than in the classroom. We have to be aware of it!

Arminda Pereira, Portugal

armindapereira1 — 2017-02-03 15:08:04 UTC

Learning Activities describe, in concrete terms, the work to be done in a classroom. These innovative activities can be experienced independently or in a sequence of activities. An example of a Learning Activity can be the collection of data outside the classroom, the listening of experts on a job done or the creation of a multimedia presentation.

Outdoor activities are a way of training and recreation that promote active learning through direct personal experience. Children who spend more time outdoors make more friends, are generally happier than those who stay indoors, improves mental wellbeing and self-esteem, reduces obesity and can reduce aggression. Learning outside improves attitudes to learning, creates a more active imagination and focus on tasks.

Learning experiences outside the classroom are inherently interdisciplinary. When we go out into the world, we encounter it as a whole and are forced to engage multiple modalities, no matter which pair of disciplinary “lenses” we intended to wear. Therefore, scientists and humanists alike do well to consider the ways in which other disciplines might enrich their own disciplinary approach to their field.

One way to escape the confines of the classroom and to afford students opportunities to grow is to encourage students to learn from and to serve the surrounding community. In its simplest form, this may involve field trips into a community where students will have occasions to have discussions with community members or local experts on an issue related to some content. Even greater learning potentials and community benefits rest in more intensive forms of community engagement in the form of service learning projects. These projects allow students to learn in highly effective ways. In these experiences, student growth can be extensive, whether it is through improved critical thinking and problem solving skills, greater personal efficacy and leadership development, or enhanced social responsibility.

Luigi Alterani, Italy

Italianteacher — 2017-02-03 16:08:33 UTC

I had an outdoor activity with my students when preparing a touristic guide of their native town for an eTwinning project. Students collaborated and learnt a lot of things about their own town they did not know before.
https://tackk.com/fl5csp

Francesca, Italy

2017-02-03 16:28:25 UTC

I rarely have the opportunity to have outdoor learning activities but when I manage to do them it's always a great success

Ana Prados

belanotinajero — 2017-02-03 17:11:29 UTC

As a Language and Literatura teacher, I have only gone outdoors once or twice during sprngtime to read some love and nature poems and comment on them. Only with elder students.
And, even though it is not an outdoor activity, I have taken some 13-year-old students to a museum, which might be similar to an outdoor scenario.
I handed them some maps of the museum and make them find their way.
I made them do in-place research by looking for features in pictures or for information shown in the exhibit labels. They have to complete a group questionnaire. To incorporate the use of technology they could write a script with "mysteries" and answers to those questions, and then record a video as if they were journalists or archaeologists.

Daniela, Italy

gea68_dp — 2017-02-03 17:32:34 UTC

I teach law matters and I can use outdoor activities when I take my students to visit the court, to speak with a Judge or a lawyer and to try to solve a case study

Marián Reguera, Spain

2017-02-03 17:51:40 UTC

I have never used TeamUp but I did take my students outside. It was a time when they were preparing booktrailers about a play by Shakespeare. Then they had to distribute character roles, write the script, act and record and finally edit a video. When presenting outcomes, they had peer feedback.

Maria Grazia Licandro Italy

mglicandro — 2017-02-03 18:08:22 UTC

In this scenario I also added some artistic activities. I would collect leaves, flower petals, sticks, stones, and more. Then I would paste the objects found on a sheet to create a "memory picture."
In the video they show only four pupils who perform the activity, but we usually go out with about 20-25 students, which prevents the creation of similar research activities to those of the video. Usually we visit places of interest to know the history or details, even with the help of experienced guides. In class we produce paper documentation. Now we can create an online portfolio, as seen in the video to be shown to parents and relatives.

Isabel Graça, Portugal

isamg — 2017-02-03 19:03:23 UTC

Great examples here!
I tought immediatly about writing prompts!

Manuela Vieira,PT

mmanuelavieira — 2017-02-03 21:40:41 UTC

Learning outside improves attitudes in learning, creates a more active imagination and focus on tasks. Sometimes we organize differents ativities and we know that students apreceate it very much.

Rossella, Italy

rossella_esposito — 2017-02-04 03:55:27 UTC

I'm a German teacher and when I go abroad with my students for stages, we don't visit new places with the help of a guide. After receiving papers with indication of the activities to do (for example collect information about a church by asking people, take photos, take information materials...), students visit different places in small groups (of a small area). Then each group share in the classroom the results of the activity and they create with different webtools (they choose together which) "their digital guide" of the place they visited.
In this way they develop different skills and use the foreign language in a real context.

Alessandro / Italy

2017-02-04 07:05:17 UTC

yes, I do it. I take out my students when they have to prepare an itinerary about their town or have to describe a monument, church. I introduce the lesson in class and then we go out together to investigate. Sometimes I ask them to go in the afternoon individually or in group. They appreciate this way to learn

Chiara S., Italia

kyarasar — 2017-02-04 09:16:40 UTC

My students use to prepare statistical surveys for schoolmates (or other people) for instance alcohol assumption during week ends; besides it can be useful to get things from the 'outside' world inside school: we're studying junk food and they bring packages with ingredients

Cristina, Spain

krisalpa — 2017-02-04 11:02:47 UTC

So far we usually go out to the village park to see the changes that occur in autumn or spring, we collect different types of leaves and fruits that we find on the ground and then in class we try to see differences, sizes, ... We observe, investigate, draw what we have collected ... but we have not applied ICT tools in the process, maybe the age of the students 3 - 6 years seemed to me to be a handicap, but in this course, I am realizing that there are many forms and many apps that could be applied even with young children.

Katarzyna Siwczak

2017-02-04 11:12:09 UTC

I don't have lessons outside the classroom but I do so in projects. I think a good idea is to ask students to do some research (including teamwork) on a place that is going to be visited and then to act as guides.

Clara Vitorino, Portugal

2017-02-04 11:29:41 UTC

It's true outdoor study projects are very useful for motivating learners. In my school, it's usual going out to a theatre, a museum or to do physical activities (participate in a football tour for example). It's usual also to give the students a sheet with questions that they answer to review the contents. But I think that these activities are still very traditional and guided by the teachers. We should let students in charge of the orgnization of outdoor exit.

Fausto, Italy

2017-02-04 12:47:03 UTC

My students record ambient sounds, then elaborate them with audio editing software.

Catello de Sinno, Gragnano- Italy

2017-02-04 15:31:47 UTC

My students are leading research for the project "Safeguarding our Landscape" going around in their town, taking photos, interviewing, drawing, taking notes.The entire class goes outside the school but in afterschool time.They are divided in small groups, each team has their own topic of inquiry that is related to the theme of the course and to students’ specific abilities, competences and personal inclinations. They usually post materials in a padlet in Twinspace. Learners view each other’s collected data and provide feedback, praise, and criticism in order to achieve the common final project outcome.

Luciano

2017-02-04 15:55:08 UTC

I usually don't do learning activities outside. The only times
I have such activities is when we organize a visit
to a museum or an event of interest.

Željka, Croatia

2017-02-04 16:17:36 UTC

Learning outside the classroom is more interesting. The students become more active.

Andrea Checchetti, Italy

dreache — 2017-02-04 16:19:10 UTC

In my lessons the learning activities that are mainly used are: Collecting data outside of school, Teamwork and Peer Feedback

Maribel, Spain

maribel_gortiz — 2017-02-04 16:22:43 UTC

As a teacher of English as a foreign language, designing a learning activity which involves a project can be challenging.

Katerinavelesiotou

2017-02-04 18:07:04 UTC

Maybe in this Scenario students could write a relative story ans sing or create a song .As a music teacher i participate in many programms and we go outside in cooperation with a collegue of another lesson , organizing a coomon plan.But we take part in every activity-feast -educational programm outside ,as at Christmas time .We went to the square and we sung and played the musical instuments.

Alicia Serrano,Spain

2017-02-04 18:50:07 UTC

Through these learning experiences the student and student give meaning to their learning, becoming the protagonists of their learning in an active and participatory way.
From my experience, an activity that approaches the one presented in the video could be sequenced in the following learning activities:

The theme worked is spring:

* In the classroom we work the station through projected images ...
* Auditions of the sounds of nature in spring ...
* Exploration and creation work outside the school in collaboration with families: take photos of the environment in spring, make a short video about some aspect related to the station ...
* Implementation of work in the classroom.

Konstantina, Greece

2017-02-04 19:23:11 UTC

When doing an investigation with my students or when moving the learning outside the classroom we make a Concept Map with my students before the investigation in order to list our knowledge about the topic. After the investigation we go back to our initial Concept Map and we enrich it with the new knowledge acquired by the investigation or the learning outside the classroom.

Snezana, Macedonia

2017-02-04 20:59:44 UTC

I rarely go outside, but these classes are very interesting. Why I don't do that often- because our curriculum has too many goals to achieve...Team work, peer feedback is also good practise- I can say :)

Concetta Rapisarda Italy

2017-02-04 21:49:39 UTC

My students sometimes go out, we visit museums, nature parks, etc. In the classroom, they study what they will see next. Then, they deepen the topic in the place that they visit.

Adriana Lefter, Romania

lefteradriana — 2017-02-05 07:52:29 UTC

I really like to go out in sping and in autumn, because studenst can investigate the weather, the changing in nature in this two seasons, we go out to find different tioe of lives, small animals and insects in our school garden, we go out to play in dry leaves, to make a snowman and to measure it every hour to see how it devent smollet because of the sun

Simona Costaru, Romania

2017-02-05 10:03:10 UTC

The students like outdoor projects. These projects are motivating, the kids became more active. I have my children involved in projects in collaboration with the community institutions or in study projects in maths, arts, geography, history. I like offer the students that kinn of activities because they have contact with reality and because of the inter/transdisciplinarity objectives of these activities.

Emiliana, Italy

emiliana_rufo — 2017-02-05 10:07:08 UTC

I have two examples of iTEC learning activities:
1. I organized with some of the students in my school a conference opened to parents, teachers and other students about Internet safety and cyberbullism. Students had the possibility to work in teams outside and inside the school to create digital projects that showed their ideas on the topic and to present them during the conference. Here is the summary of the activity we did:

https://padlet.com/emiliana_rufo/ItalianInternetDay2016

2. I worked with my students of Year 7 in teams to understand their families' origin and traditions (we have students from different countries), they did interviews to members of their family and relatives, they took notes and created a poster or a digital product to show their mates, this helped them to know each others better. Here is the summary of the activity we did:

https://padlet.com/emiliana_rufo/neoassunti_attivitaN1

Anezina Xydous ,Greece

anezina123 — 2017-02-05 12:27:36 UTC

Children may go out on school trips to investigate a topic that is set ,however,sometimes it is not always easy to focus on it.They need to know the purpose and of course feel motivated enough to complete such a task.I believe that the introduction to a topic and our professional support are of primary importance to succeed.

Antonietta, Italy

2017-02-05 13:58:24 UTC

The "Outdoor Study Project" Scenario proposes a series of interesting activities. In particular I prefer group learning activities as they promote collaboration and autonomy but also teamwork and peer feedback in a learning setting where teacher is only a coach.

Bartolomeo Corbo - Italy

bartolomeo_corbo — 2017-02-05 14:18:23 UTC

The last year, for eTwinning project, with a group of my students, we have gone in a medieval quarter of our town to realize a presentation for our European partner. The first step has been presenting to the students the activity they'll do and decide how collect data: we have decided for photo, video, interviews to habitants, document research. We have elaborated a gathering form of monuments and remarkable places. Then we have gone on site to collect data. In the classroom, then, the students have been divided in group of four and every group have done his presentation. The presentations have been published on Twinspace of project and the partner have done they review.

Daniela Millini, Italy

teacherman — 2017-02-05 16:27:20 UTC

All the learning/teaching activities proposed can be easily used in many other different scenarios, included a Flipped Classroom one, or one supported by an ETwinning Twinspace. I try to use teamwork and peer feedback in most of the learning experiences I involve my students in, and usually take into account my mental notes about them when building up groups - even if I don't use the TeamUp tool regularly, not yet. Working with outside experts is more usual when other school subjects are involved - such as Science, History, Social or Civic Isues

José Luis. Spain

2017-02-05 16:30:16 UTC

My students like to do these kinds of activities. But they take a long time to prepare. The only problem is that many colleagues do not see the utlididad of these types of activities and do nothing but put brakes and problems. But I continue to do them year after year, because we have a wonderful natural environment, where I can work the biology concets with great ease.

Olga Martins, PT

olgacarvalhomartins — 2017-02-05 20:33:28 UTC

The students like to go out and participate in outdoor projects. They love study trips. They learn a lot, investigate before, during and after the project. They are really motivating and motivate students. They can work with other schools, other institutions, even doing volunteering activities. They can contact with other realities, enrich bthemselves and understand their role as citizens.

Anna Maria Tomaselli from Italy

annamaria_tomaselli5 — 2017-02-05 21:10:26 UTC

As I teach English in 9 classes I Always collaborate with my collegues when we take our students out to visit museums, parks or the volcano Etna. We guide our students to work in team and do peer activity

Joana, Spain

2017-02-05 21:57:21 UTC

Our students in 4th grade in Secondary School create a NGO. They build a social project (with legal documents) along the academic year and collect as much money as they can. For these reason they are doing a lot of activities in and outside the school. They publish all their proposals on the net, on the press and on the social radio programs. At the same time, they explain all their challenges and ask for help to the society. This year we are working with an organization from Ibiza which is called http://proyectojuntos.org/ . With our social work they will build a water well near the town or the school from a village in Madagascar.

The real project’s goal from us, it is to become our students in social volunteers and future world citizens plenty of a wide range of values like: tolerance, solidarity, giving a helping hand,....

Alessandra Basso Italy

alessandra_bass — 2017-02-05 23:03:02 UTC

Another learning activity for students, can be people interview. Students could make it in pair or alone. They can interview a guide in a museum, or people at work in order to collect information related a topic.

Behlül, Turkey

behlulakyol — 2017-02-05 23:55:18 UTC

I planned an eTwining project and started to work. 42 teachers and students from 11 partner countries cooperate. March 21 about the forest week. We start by saying jungle-themed songs to this project. We will arrange a tour to the forest. There will be two lessons. We will know the first derste forest. Students will be divided into groups, photographing trees and plants and collecting leaf samples. For example the place and date of receipt. Collect information about the leaf samples. Second course recognition of forest school system. They will discover living creatures living together in the forest. Phone and photo machine. They will form food chain cycles. Students will describe their impressions after the forest tour by drawing pictures. In another activity, they will apply tree planting and first care by learning from experts. And finally prepare posters about forest protection. All event data will be shared in twin space. The share of other partners will be tracked and discussed.

Songs related to the subject can be said, pictures can be drawn. Applications can be made by experts.

Elvia, Italy

2017-02-06 07:45:58 UTC

In addition of that, i can suggest doing some external lab activities and recording them or make a poster ( Gloster) of your experience

Darina, Bulgaria

2017-02-06 08:12:59 UTC

I have no lessons outside, but my students are working on eTwinning projects that involve group work, search the Internet, using books, encyclopedias, various practical activities and more. We also try very often PBL during our lessons.

Gianluca, Italy

Gianluca_Marano — 2017-02-06 09:02:48 UTC

At the beginning of the school year I propose a day hiking in the mountains with my students and later reconstruct the food chain of animals, recording our experiences making posters with Gloster.

Ma Dolors Virgili, Spain

mdvirgili — 2017-02-06 10:06:45 UTC

As a foreign language teacher, we do not have many lessons outside, only when we prepare trips to museums, interesting displays in Barcelona, or theatre sessions.
However, an interesting activity would be to ask students create an audio guide of their city for foreign students coming in summer for a school trip. Students would have to take their own photos, use google maps to pin their routes, collect booklets from the tourist information, record their own audio and compose it at school computer classroom.

Donato, Italy

donatopiccinino — 2017-02-06 10:26:11 UTC

An activity to do outside of the classroom may be the scaling of their school, the courtyard and the school district

Magdalena M, Spain

2017-02-06 13:41:40 UTC

I never go outside to collect data, but other teachers from my school do this. For example, the Art teacher goes with her students for a walk around the town to visit the most significant monuments and buildings. I think it’s a really good practice but not relevant for all subjects.

Gabriele Ornaghi - Crema, Italy

gabriele_ornaghi88 — 2017-02-06 21:36:21 UTC

Not only the activities outside of school to school can be considered innovative. Also workshops or flipped classroom are "futuristic".

Elisabetta Nepa

classedieli — 2017-02-06 22:05:08 UTC

I agree with Carmela, the teacher should be a facilitator, offering different activities that stimulate the different intelligences, and meet the different learning styles of students.
For this I foresee also workshop activities in class even with experts and educational tours.

Andrei, Romania

Andrei_ro — 2017-02-06 22:38:29 UTC

Learning by doing is a great experience for students as they are confronted with the real world.
It should be applicable for many subjects that are taught in schools but unfortunately is very time consuming.

Oksana Nagorna, Ukraine

nagoksa — 2017-02-07 12:58:30 UTC

I`m a language teacher but I often think about outdoor activities with my students. It`s a great idea to make an integrated project with a teacher of a different subject, so students could benefit from it and the teachers would have more ideas. In my country we also need to make it fit with the curriculum which is not easy to do.

Chiara C.

2017-02-07 13:47:43 UTC

I work with students with special needs and to make learning authentic and concrete we take them to purchase to the market or to interview shopkeepers about what they're going to buy.

Nehir ÇABUKER, Turkey

nehircabuker — 2017-02-07 20:53:55 UTC

In my school, we sometimes plan to go outside to investigate our topics in a real life. so my students have to chance to explore sths lively I mean they encounter with a real life. For example for our e-Twinnng projects they pick up the soil in the scool garden to search how they could use that for different plants

Šárka ,

sarka_opatova — 2017-02-07 22:28:03 UTC

For me new and interesting: team newsflashes.

I recommend to get your SS used to peer feedback step by step, with smaller feedback in the form of smileys or 1,2,3 to advanced feedback based on n assessment grid.

Natasa Todosijevic, Serbia

2017-02-07 23:11:19 UTC

Nice and interesting. My pupils ( 8 years old) could do some less complicated tasks, for example: collecting plants for art classes, or opserving some changes in nature in different seasons, then compare them , or to look for the solutions of the problem that I set , as a mistery question ... There are a lot of ideas...

zuhal Ozbay, Turkey

zuhalozbay1912 — 2017-02-08 11:54:21 UTC

Students like learning outside classroom very much. They are willing to coallaborate and seek for information.Also they are more disciplined

Lucia Lauria Spolidoro

lucialauria15 — 2017-02-08 15:17:31 UTC

Lucia Lauria Spolidoro

lucialauria15 — 2017-02-08 15:17:38 UTC

My student

Lucia Lauria Spolidoro

lucialauria15 — 2017-02-08 15:17:40 UTC

My students like learning by experiences done outside school. They have to collaborate by e-twinning or

Maria Rosaria Sabina

rosaria_sab — 2017-02-08 15:25:27 UTC

There are many hands-on activities that will easily allow the students to learn by doing. You may use the natural or to digital sphere

Rosy, Italy

rositone73 — 2017-02-09 08:50:13 UTC

Learning by doing inside and outside school is very effective .
My students like to experience and collaborate

Laura Serban, Romania

2017-02-09 11:42:29 UTC

I am thinking of students writing in a team learning journal, about the new experiences during the project (share their attitudes too)

Gülhanım Dursun

2017-02-09 18:49:22 UTC

We have some activities during our first term.

Adriana, Romania

adritoderic — 2017-02-10 13:11:58 UTC

In my schoolstudents love to have outside activities.

María, Spain

isasama10 — 2017-02-10 17:28:15 UTC

Our students have collected leaves, branches and flowers during school trips. Then they have created nice collections for Biology or have included them in their schoolwork.

Atanasija, Croatia

2017-02-10 21:34:18 UTC

It is so much easier fo students to learn in outdoors.

Adina, Romania

2017-02-11 12:40:30 UTC

Every outdoor activity is good for teambuilding. Also a different environment is a wellcomed change from the classroom

Alessandra Savona, Italy

aluccia_sav — 2017-02-11 16:18:16 UTC

The best way to learn something is experiencing it. For me, teaching EFL, is very difficult to make my students experiment with the language in a natural way. What I have them do is researching, preparing posters or presentations and then relating them to the class. They quite like it.

Cristina Antal - Romania

2017-02-11 16:45:37 UTC

Learning by doing. When the Nature becames the classroom the whole univers is participating in education. Collecting data outside the school, mental notes about learners and teamwork are some of the Learning Activities that can be find out in this scenario.

Elena B, Italy

teacherEB — 2017-02-11 18:02:09 UTC

During last class exchange with Denmark, my students presented our territory to their partners, first with multimedia tools at school and then as tourist guides outside. In this way they got a higher awareness of the world around them

I worked on a project of recycling Students used to work outdoors while recycling and then making small jewels which they gave to their classmates for a small amount of money or even exchange them with food products in order to help their poor classmates. But it was much easier to discuss about the environment and the climate change and what we the peolpe can do to save nature outdoors . Cleaning seasides, walking on the mountains , visiting recycling units, using the fertile they produced, collecting burned oil from the house, attending seminars. etc gave them the chance to be more creative and much happier.

keratsog — 2017-02-11 18:11:23 UTC

Melissa Esposito, Italy

melissa_esposito — 2017-02-11 21:53:18 UTC

I teach Maths so for me is very difficult to work out. Sometimes we work in team measuring outdoor spaces and we report these data on graphics.

Brigitta, Romania

2017-02-12 09:06:56 UTC

During an English camp in the mountains I asked students to find out how cheese is made. They grouped, visited the nearest fold, made an interview with the shepherd, and after presenting their findings also presented their colleagues with some very tasty cheese they got on the spot. It was amazing!

Lareta Žubrinić, Croatia

lareta_zubrinic — 2017-02-12 10:48:07 UTC

Learning outside of the classroom requires a lot of preparation, but kids love it. Although this is not an example for a group work, as a teacher of Croatian language& literature I go outside with the pupils to prepare them for writing stories or poems. In nature, they are observing colors, find motivation, pay attention to details, listen to sounds and write notes. Being in nature they get more inspired and motivated for creation.

Margarita M., Spain

2017-02-12 11:39:10 UTC

Students like learning outside the classroom. I think they, in that moment, are not thinking that they are learning. They feel comfortable and they are enjoying the learning process. And the most important thing, they are the owners of their own learning process.

The example of the video is really inspiration. Learning activities are collaborative and communicative activities. They combine outside learning with inside learning, they allow us use technology. Learning activities are really great.

Maria,Italia

2017-02-12 17:16:39 UTC

I'm an English teacher. With my students we haven't many occasions to go outside. This video is important because it is a great example of collaboration.

Anabela Fernandes, Dulce Freire, Isabel Cruz e Vítor Silva - Portugal

2017-02-13 22:13:14 UTC

This activity is very interesting. We never did anything of this genre. Sometimes we make study visits, but at the end when they return to school, we ask them to respond individually to a small survey.

Antonio Marinello, Italy

2017-02-13 23:37:51 UTC

I think that you could use the “Working with outside experts” activity in this scenario.

I usually involve outside experts when I organize project based learning activities.
I have involved outside expert when I planned and realized a project based learning activities about volcanoes (a PON project on Sciences in 2015). The project involved experts and researchers of CNR (National Research Center) and at the end of work, the learners realized a final product made with Thinglink

M. Elif Dönertaş, Turkey

e_yavas7 — 2017-02-14 06:09:06 UTC

I am recently applying a lesson plan of the investigation sort. We are trying to find out what makes a building resistant to earthquakes. The interesting thing is, I have a very similar structure with the future classroom scenario and the learning activities included above. The theme is applied to 3rd graders in science and engineering lesson and it is not included in the national curriculum. What we did aside from what has been mentioned above is, as Antonia Marinello from Italy said, we have included outside experts to come and give us all an idea about the reality of the phenomenon.

Rossella, Italy

rossellabattafarano — 2017-02-14 10:48:08 UTC

Good

Maria Antonietta-Italy- I teach in the primary school. My children are nine years old.Topics are interesting. "Learning by doing" promotes interest, motivation and therefore knowledge.In Primary school, often I guided tours aimed to do.In this years ,for example, I and my colleagues are organizing a guided visit to the "museumBalì".We make a projects in the school, There are experts.I like to plan the "cooperative learning" with my little pupils to deepen the knowledge. Each group focuses on a different topic from other groupsThey make: maps, summary, acrostics, calligrams, word-cloud. At the end there is the comparison and exchange of informations.Kids even relate the strengths and the critical points

2017-02-14 19:25:10 UTC

Angela De Giacomi, Italy

2017-02-15 09:48:02 UTC

As a teacher of English at a scientific high school, I'm collaborating with my science colleague and our Spanish partners in an eTwinning project on inspiring healthy habits in our students. This Scenario could be useful to have students understand the importance nature acquires when talking about food. A vegetable garden could be taken into account and Learning activities could be carried out in the shape of scientific observation, experimentation, note-taking. As a matter of fact, my colleague and I are thinking of doing an investigation on milk nutrients in the science lab. Videos will be shot and photos of the activities will be taken and uploaded in Twinspace along with a detailed report.

Alicia, Spain

alma_negra7 — 2017-02-15 12:05:30 UTC

In my husband's school use the teamwork. It's a good way to colaboration of the students. The others, I don't know, because i don't use it but i take ideas for my classroom.

Maria Grazia Valenti, Italy

mgvalenti — 2017-02-15 17:48:19 UTC

I am an english teacher at primary school and I often collaborate with my collegues and use the teamwork. I like working in e-Twinning project in this way; it is easier, but similar... Thanks, I'll try to follow this six learning activities!

Monica, Italy

MonicaP — 2017-02-15 21:20:29 UTC

I think that working with outside experts is important from the beginning of the activity because in this way students find the activity more "real"

Elisabetta, Italy

2017-02-16 15:59:49 UTC

In an activity of science you could insert the sample collection and analysis in the laboratory ..... I like to do different tasks to each group so that they can share the experience with their classmates

Rosana , Spain

2017-02-16 18:50:49 UTC

We do different outdoor activities. Most of the activities are done inside the school because our students are very young.
The favourite activitiy is in our greenhouse. Each student plants a seed inside a container in the classroom. When the seeds begin to grow, we take the containers to the green house and plant them there.

Students are thrilled to see their plants grow and show them to their family.

Mariagrazia, Italy

2017-02-16 22:00:57 UTC

i'm a science teacher, i'd like i can do outdoor activities. It's quite difficult to organize.

Violeta, Lithuania

vilite77 — 2017-02-17 09:25:39 UTC

That's really engaging. It takes a lot of time, but worth doing.

Maite, Spain

symbaloo2 — 2017-02-17 10:54:54 UTC

Very interesting activity. Working outdoor normally is attractive for them and the possibility of learning with specialists would be a fantastic ending for this.

Valbona, Albania

valbona_mata2 — 2017-02-17 18:35:01 UTC

the outdoor lesson is very useful to the children becouse they an learn easier and i can do it very well.
for example the urbaniatical rules.
the knowleege for plants and the animals

Maria Magliocco

marilena_magliocco — 2017-02-17 19:01:10 UTC

Very interesting

Mirela, Romania

scomi78 — 2017-02-17 19:41:18 UTC

They could create an artificial environment to continue the research.

Judit Xaus, Catalonia

juditxaus — 2017-02-19 09:30:19 UTC

In this scenario we could compare and contrast animals, for example bringing in other insects and taking a look at their bodies.

We normally do experiments, observations, collecting materials...
We usually do it working in small teams, cooperating.

Pau Romeu, Catalonia

2017-02-19 09:30:47 UTC

Going outside the classroom is an interesting way to learn. Science is a perfect subject to implement this kind of scenarios.

salvatriceloiacono — 2017-02-19 16:03:36 UTC

Very interesting

Marko Brajković, Croatia

2017-02-19 18:12:34 UTC

As Croatian language and literature teacher I take every chance I have to go outside and learn. Last time we have visited a public library to learn about it's collections and catalogs. Also, outside expert explained us

Dewey Decimal Classification system. My students have collected data and worked in teams.

Livia, Italy

2017-02-19 18:51:34 UTC

I teach at an Hotel and Catering School. We often go out the School for visiting Catering business and places of enogastronomic interest. My students usually collect data, then at school, working in team they elaborate data.

ANTONINA PUSATERI (ITALY)

antonellapusateri — 2017-02-21 15:19:48 UTC

When you move outside learning it is fvorisce the spontaneous process of acquiring knowledge. A science class, but also in history and even language, if I think of the contact and exchange with the natives for learning foreign languages. Everything can be customized, any discipline, one iTEC scenery

Célia B.

2017-02-21 22:56:10 UTC

Usually, I follow a kind of guidelines for research conceived and adapted from the network of school libraries. According to it, students have to team up and do some independent research with a final product. I take my notes as well, but there is no place for peer review. Perhaps further I will include it... Thanks for this input.

Mairead Ireland

2017-02-22 15:51:39 UTC

children love going outdoors gathering data. It is important to record this data in a meaningful way after. I like the idea of newsflashes , peer feedback and teamwork. Also getting outside experts brings the lesson to another level.

Miguel Ángel Frías,

2017-02-23 19:05:14 UTC

Collect all the data and all the information using the appropriate technological tools and present the results to the companions

Cristina MUntean, Romania

cristinahelena2108 — 2017-02-24 08:27:41 UTC

Unfortunately we don't have so many outdoor activities.

Roberta Condomitti - Italy

condomittir — 2017-02-24 21:29:30 UTC

Unfortunatly many outdoor activities need an economic contribution from the student's families so a large number of them are not chosen by us to weigh even more on famili economy.
State has much reduce the formative offer towards students.

Claudia Massaregli

2017-02-25 15:26:38 UTC

go outside is a wonderful activity to ingage children in Learning in a meaniful context.

Francesca, Italy

2017-02-25 17:58:51 UTC

It is a very intersting example

Sevasti Milona, Greece

2017-02-25 18:09:51 UTC

Working outside the classroom is great, but it is not always easy. It is harder to happens daily. Another solution is kids collect data and conduct surveys of the family and social environment and the present and process them in class.

Gabriella, Italy

gabriellacolucci3 — 2017-02-25 18:57:41 UTC

In primary school we often go out to do outdoor activities. For the growth of children is essential experiential activities and then get to abstract concepts. In addition to landing it is important to support this process with new technologies that can provide viewing capabilities such as video and movies to introduce the topic and search for the deeper concepts.

Hasan Turgay ÖZÇELİK

mavimavi2316 — 2017-12-15 14:32:26 UTC

very interesting...