LEARNING CIRCLES
This is the project that I’d like to recommend for starting your participation in the IEARN projects. http://media.iearn.org/projects/learningcircles
The IEARN Learning Circles has been a long running project that has facilitated Internet and communication technology collaborative project-based learning among classrooms in diverse regions of the world since 1995. Learning Circles are highly interactive, project-based partnerships among a small number of schools located throughout the world. The idea of the Learning Circles belongs to a wonderful woman, scientist and educator from California, Margaret Riel. The intention is to create a circle of schools - connected through computers and the Internet - simultaneously working on the same topic, exchanging information and learning from each other. The project usually takes 10 to 16 weeks and two circles are organised every year. A Learning Circle is created by a team of 6-8 teachers and their classes joined in the virtual space of an electronic classroom. The group remains together over a 3-4 month period working on projects drawn from the curriculum of each of the classrooms organized around a selected theme. At the end of the term the group collects and publishes its work. Then, just as any class of students does, the Learning Circle comes to an end. The result is authentic student work and true international collaboration. The most valuable among the benefits we obtained from our learning circle are: a) new knowledge and experience obtained while participating in the learning circles;
b) improved ICT skills and wider knowledge of computers and the Internet;
c) improved general language skills, especially reading and writing, and the knowledge of the vocabulary of a specific topic;
d) experience and skills in teamwork;
e) getting acquainted with and learning about other cultures;
f) contacts around the world.
Learn more reading the coordinator's presentation
The IEARN Learning Circles has been a long running project that has facilitated Internet and communication technology collaborative project-based learning among classrooms in diverse regions of the world since 1995. Learning Circles are highly interactive, project-based partnerships among a small number of schools located throughout the world. The idea of the Learning Circles belongs to a wonderful woman, scientist and educator from California, Margaret Riel. The intention is to create a circle of schools - connected through computers and the Internet - simultaneously working on the same topic, exchanging information and learning from each other. The project usually takes 10 to 16 weeks and two circles are organised every year. A Learning Circle is created by a team of 6-8 teachers and their classes joined in the virtual space of an electronic classroom. The group remains together over a 3-4 month period working on projects drawn from the curriculum of each of the classrooms organized around a selected theme. At the end of the term the group collects and publishes its work. Then, just as any class of students does, the Learning Circle comes to an end. The result is authentic student work and true international collaboration. The most valuable among the benefits we obtained from our learning circle are: a) new knowledge and experience obtained while participating in the learning circles;
b) improved ICT skills and wider knowledge of computers and the Internet;
c) improved general language skills, especially reading and writing, and the knowledge of the vocabulary of a specific topic;
d) experience and skills in teamwork;
e) getting acquainted with and learning about other cultures;
f) contacts around the world.
Learn more reading the coordinator's presentation
Computer Chronicles Elementary
Computer Chronicles - This theme promotes writing across the curriculum. Interaction online revolves around producing a newspaper called The Computer Chronicles. Each class has the opportunity to sponsor one or more sections of the newspaper as their Learning Circle project. They solicit articles from their partner classes and edit them to create one section of the newspaper. This section is combined with the other sections sponsored by circles partners to form the completed newspaper, the Circle publication.
Computer Chronicles Elementary
Autumn session 2010
Computer Chronicles Elementary
Autumn session 2010
INTRODUCTION
PROJECT IDEA
WINTER HOLIDAYS
"Winter Holidays" was the project sponsored by Gina Fosco and her 5th graders from St. Stephen the Martyr School in Omaha, USA. Its goal was to explore the similarities and differences between how we celebrate winter holidays.
Ilya Samsonik, Slava Tsydik, Vanya Volynets, Diana Alisevich created a presentation about winter holidays in our country. You can also view the presentation here: http://media.iearn.org/v/Activities/learningcirclecce1/xinterxholidaysxinxxelarus.ppt.html or https://media.iearn.org/v/Activities/holidays/xinterxholidaysxinxxelarus.ppt.html Computers:pros and cos
The project "Is the computer my friend?" was suggested by the students of the 7th and 9th grades and her teacher Larysa Khrykina from New Tselina, Russia. We had a discussion and a survey about the role of computers in our lives and Kate Dyatlova, Kate Sinitsa, Dasha Belevich and Denis Vorotynets made the presntation "Computers: pros and cos".
http://media.iearn.org/v/Activities/learningcirclecce1/computers111111111111ppt.ppt.html |
CLASS SURVEY
CLEAN SCHOOL - CLEAN TOWN
HISTORICAL PLACES AND CULTURES
View and download the presentation here:https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B5Zr7Dy7yirhNTE5NTg0NzItOWNhMS00NTBiLWExM2Y
tOTJlZWFmNDY1Njk2&hl=en or in the iearn media album:http://media.iearn.org/v/Activities/learningcirclecce1/xistoricalxplaces.ppt.html Caring
The students from Lynnwood Elementary School (USA) and their teachers Kelly Kerani and Christine Kolstoe suggested the Caring and Compassion project the goal of which is to explore the way we care.
Kate Dyatlova, Kate Risunova, Kate Sinitsa, Kseniya Sosnovskaya and Vanya Volynets drew some pictures, wrote essays and made a power point presentation to explain what it means to be a caring person and show how to care, what to care about and what to do for a more caring world. See http://media.iearn.org/v/Activities/learningcirclecce1/xaring.ppt.html?g2_navId=x381fe0cb |
Forest Encyclopedia "Wonders of the forest"
30 % of the Earth surface is covered by forests
and forests play an important role in our life. They are full of wonders which
we sometimes can’t notice. We wanted our partners to do a research and tell about
different species of animals, birds and insects that inhabit their forests, about
different species of plants (trees, flowers, grasses) that grow there.
The goal of the project is to motivate children to investigate their local forests (that is animals, plants, insects, birds) and compare them with the other forests.
Keeping forests clean and planting trees together is another idea we are going to suggest as we are a ENO school and we’d like our partners to join us on ENO Tree Planting Day on May 21, 2010.
The students of 4A and 4C were very creative and compiled the forest encyclopedia which includes interesting facts about the Temporate Rainforest in Washington State, USA (Lynnwood Elementary School), the Nebraska National Forest (St.Stephen the Martyr School), the article "One Way or another to be clean and green" (Greenacres School).
The goal of the project is to motivate children to investigate their local forests (that is animals, plants, insects, birds) and compare them with the other forests.
Keeping forests clean and planting trees together is another idea we are going to suggest as we are a ENO school and we’d like our partners to join us on ENO Tree Planting Day on May 21, 2010.
The students of 4A and 4C were very creative and compiled the forest encyclopedia which includes interesting facts about the Temporate Rainforest in Washington State, USA (Lynnwood Elementary School), the Nebraska National Forest (St.Stephen the Martyr School), the article "One Way or another to be clean and green" (Greenacres School).