D3+-+Project+objectives

=D3 - Project objectives= ** Integration of different subjects: **

**Integration of different subjects:

Languages**  - presentation skills, persuasive reasoning, language skills,﻿real-life and purposeful communication ﻿﻿ ﻿etc.

 - works of different nations, literary translation etc. Showing prejudices through national literature: how our writers see the other countries.
 * Literature**

- history of peoples, national history etc. (Knowlegde of participants countries through contemporary history). We'll be studying each participant country in a regional context. They will carry out some research and they will show their results to foreign students via Powerpoint presentations. - Studying women's role in society throughout XXth century art and photography. - Studying migrants contribution to our societis in the XXth century.
 * History**

 - knowledge of geographical facts and society of each country. Showing diversity within diversity (different regions, languages, cultures of each country) - Breaking up geographical stereotypes. Each country will show different landscapes and places, far from typical imaginery (for example, Spain and Catalonia are much more than beaches, sun and paella). <span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Studying maps and borders throughout XXth century. How our countries became what they are now. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Travelling around the Comenius countries. Students in groups will organize an imaginary travel by train visiting the participant countries. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Knowing what’s up in the Comenius countries. Students will have to gather press articles related with the partner countries in order to follow the current affairs of different issues, such as politics, enviromental issues, society, curious facts... They’ll make posters were they will add frequently fresh news. The poster or “noticeboard” could be placed in the hall of school in order to share it with educational community. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-Showing our town (or city) our European friends. Students will prepare a visit to the more interesting places in the local town in order to be able to explain it in English to the visitor students. <span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * Geography**

<span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - creative arts have a role of arts in changing attitudes etc. Homemaking, manual training - ethnic foods, dining customs in different countries, national craft etc. <span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Showing national culture through contemporary local artists => Each art teacher will teach their students a contemporary local artist (or some of them). When students from other countries visit their partners, local students will show them what they have learnt. We will be introducing contemporary art to foreing students as a way of breaking stereotypes about what's commonly known about local art (for example, there is much more art in Spain than Picasso!).
 * Arts and Crafts**

<span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - folk song, folk dance etc. (Also nowadays music & dance; a way to break stereotypes is showing what's cool in our countries)
 * Music**

<span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- local to global issues - good citizenship, tolerance, migration concern, fighting racism, etc.
 * Civics**

<span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- traditions, customs, behavioral effects of religion, impact of religion etc.
 * Religion/Ethics**

<span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - understand the practices of different cultures, their heritage etc.
 * Philosophy**

<span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - what is the view of our students towards this issue? Have girls and boys, men and women the same opportunities in the participant countires?
 * Gender and other minorites**

<span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - computer skills improve, make website, use skype,﻿use Web 2.0 tools etc. <span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Studying how technology is taught to boys and girls? Do they enjoy the same level of learning?
 * New Technologies**

<span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> - Using of statistics and statistical graphic design. Students will carry out the survey to the local Comenius participants and they will create graphics. The results of the survey will be shown in public panels. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Studying old and traditional units of measurament from participants countries as well as the instruments used to measure. Finding out what’s the relation to nowadays metric system. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It would be interesting to compare closer countries such as Portugal, Spain and Italy with further ones. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This activity would be shared by Social Sciences, Technology and Maths departments. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Studying differents alphanumeric systems, such as ISBN, bar codes, credit cards, Vehicle registration plates. Understanding what’s the meaning of numbers anf groups of numbers. Comparing differences and similarities among countries from EU and abroad.
 * Maths**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Studying standars of living in each country (urban transport, journals, energy, wáter, mínimum wage...). <span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Studying different currencies and conversión rates. Understanding the advantages of using a common currency. This activity may be developed by differents departments <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * Economy**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

<span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;">**Physical Education** <span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">- How do we play games in differents parts of Europe? Students will learn and share via Internet how the others play the same games andf they will create panels and models of games to practice them. - 2 Local sports. Students will be learning a local game, its rules and when foreign students visit each other they will teach them to play these sports.

<span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Corbel','sans-serif';">Literature, internet, media and direct communication with the other nations have the main means to examine the different peoples and cultures. The draft provides an opportunity to encourage young people to discuss it, which can lead to living in another culture. Our 'prominent positions' and therefore our crosses will vary according to the particular situation of a school. For each school therefore there will be a unique 'route', but one that has the same goals as all schools, that of **minimising prejudices of the people from different countries and cultivate students' tolerance** - to break ingrained stereotypes. <span style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Corbel','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">