Shall we meet at the harbour?

Shall we meet at the harbour?

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. Henry Ward Beecher

TeamGoalChaptersExpected results

Index

TEAM

Angeliki Kougiourouki Greece

Irene Confalone Italy

Natavan Badalova Azerbaijan

Students of the three participant countries will use the Europeana platform and, while working together, they will try to highlight significant harbours of their regions, learn about harbours’ history, be aware of their role in people’s life improving their skills in English language and ICT.

Goal

Attitudes

Skills

Knowledge

CHAPTERS

Harbours’ history

Harbours’ lighthouses

Harbours’ trade and ships

Evaluation

Harbours’ social life

Dissemination

The aim of this project is to introduce the Europeana platform to the students and by using one of its galleries to enhance inquiry skills as well as critical thinking to learn about harbours that exist in their region, present them and, while working collaboratively, promote the importance of their existence in people’s economic and social life.The project will be fully integrated into the school curricula encouraging students to work in an innovative way for creating common products (harbours’ historical map, postcards and photo galleries, virtual lessons and museum, etc.). Therefore, the results will be visible on the Twinspace platform as well as on the schools’ website.

Expected results

Harbours' history

Students will:

• start exploring our harbours’ history
• compare our city's harbour with the one of the photo
• try to find differences and similarities.
• develop inquiry skills while collecting historical data to learn about participant countries’ harbours.
• use the Twinboard tool for discussion among them
• prepare short presentations in chain.
• prepare a game using web2.0 tools for the participant countries members to play
• create a virtual lesson for their partners
• add entries to a common virtual map or a history timeline

Deadline for this: end of January

Trawlers, harbours and fishing communities

Harbours' lighthouses

Students will:

• focus on presenting the lighthouses that exist in our ports
• compare our city's lighthouses with the one of the photo
• try to find differences and similarities.
• develop inquiry skills while collecting data to learn about participant countries’ lighthouses.
• use the Twinboard tool for discussion among them
• work in transnational teams
• present their work in their: history, science, photography, art, writers teams
• create a virtual lesson for their partners
• add entries to a common virtual map or a history timeline

Deadline for this: 15th of March

Trawlers, harbours and fishing communities

trade and ships

Students will:

• focus on presenting the ships that people use in our ports
• compare our city's ships and trawlers with the one of the photo
• try to find differences and similarities
• develop inquiry skills while collecting data to learn about participant countries’ ships
• use the Twinboard tool for discussion among them
• work in transnational teams
• present their work in their: fishermen, traders, sailors, visitors professional teams

Deadline for this: end of April

Trawlers, harbours and fishing communities

social life

Students will:

• focus on presenting how people use our harbours as a meeting point
• compare our city's harbour social with the one of the photo
• try to find differences and similarities
• develop critical thinking
• use the Twinboard tool for discussion among them
• take interviews

Deadline for this: end of May

Trawlers, harbours and fishing communities