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Conference Subtopic - BENEFITS OF PROJECT WORK

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eTwinning project ‘ My native place in numbers’( Lithuania, Romania, Turkey )

The aim of this project is to increase students’ interest in their native place and to improve pupils' skills in Maths, Information and Communication Technologies and Foreign Languages.

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Subjects: Art, Foreign Languages, History, Informatics / ICT,

Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Geometry

Languages: EnglishPupils’ age: 12 – 17Tools: e-mail, MP3, chat. Other software

(Powerpoint, voice thread, Wordle, photo bucket, video, pictures and drawings), Project Diary, Twinspace, Web publishing

(http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p97825)

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There are 15 students (15-17 years old) from 9-10th forms and 5 teachers from our school participating in the project.

The Lithuanian Seimas announced in 2013 the Improving Health Year. Special attention was paid to youth psychological health, its involvement in educational, cultural and sport programmes and the importance of occupying young people .

Rita Markovskaja, a teacher of English in our school and the coordinator of our eTwinning project decided to include 6 students with special educational needs ( SEN ) to participate in our international project.

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2013SEPTEMBERIntroduction

Teachers planned the activities and introduced the students to the TwinSpace.

Students practised to work with eTwinning platform, discuss and got to know each other in the TwinSpace forum.

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Lithuanian Wordle

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OCTOBERMy school

A video ’My school’ was made by the students and art teacher, Kestutis Grigonis, after collecting drawings, photos, videos and combinations of them.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ohr5jFBHgY&feature=youtu.be

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NOVEMBERA logo of the project

Students with art teacher Grigonis and IT teacher Marciulynaite’s help created a logo of the project using different Internet tools or drawings.

3 students with special educational needs were involved in that creation and one of them got to the final!

Our school’s 9th form student Tomas Katinauskas created the best logo.

The vote was on-line via Zoomerang . Students not only communicated via eTwinning

platform. They displayed some interesting information on YouTube , like Tomas Katinauskas did about Lithuanian basketball players (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXIHYq4EI0I&feature=youtu.be)

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Tomas Katinauskas

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Silvija Jotautaitė

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Dovilė Samuolytė

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Aušrinė Kalakauskaitė

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Rūta Sakalauskaitė

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DECEMBERMy country

Lithuanians introduced Romanian and Turkish partners to the most important Lithuanian places and things. So did the partners.

Our presentation ‘My country’ was made by the students with librarian Jurate Keturakiene’s help using Hot Potatoes program’s crossword.

Lithuanians and Turkish students enjoyed solving Romanian  quiz with multiple choice answers , which helped them to know Romania better.

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Romania

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‘My country’ crossword

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Nemunas river regional loops parkhttp://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/

embed_code/29349245

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Our area is famous of Nemunas river regional loops park

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Nemunas’ loops make 65 km totally

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2014JANUARY

HistoryOur school museum worker Onute

Zmejauskiene and a teacher of English Rita Markovskaja had integrated lessons about our village past in the school’s museum. It was discussed on the eTwinning platform with partners.

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9th form students with IT teacher Vita Marciulynaite created a slide show about the well-known places in Prienai area ( Pakuonis village is situated 13 km from Prienai ).

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Prienai Coat of Arms

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Pakuonis’ village Coat of Arms

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Pakuonis’ school flag

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The statue of the Knight Kestutis

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The Lepelioniu mound

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Prienai church

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Pakuonis church

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The Backininkeliai mound

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Prienai library named after Justinas Marcinkevičius ( the most famous

local writer )

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Forests around Prienai

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Peatland

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Historyhttp://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/

embed_code/30885467

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FEBRUARYGeometry and me

For the topic ‘Geometry and me’ students took photos of different geometrical objects in their place of living and uploaded them on the TwinSpace. Then they classified them according to the shape.

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Geometrical shapeshttp://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/

embed_code/31822978

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Triangle and Rectangle

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Rectangle

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Circle

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Cylinder

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Triangle

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Ring

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Cylinder and Cone with a flat top

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Cylinder, Cone, Rectangle, General oval

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Cylinder, Ring and Cone with a flat top

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Cylinder

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Roundrects and Square prism

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Hexagon, Octagram, Triangle, Rectangle

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Trapezium, rings

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Rectangle

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SUMMARYTHE BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT:

1. THE JOY OF COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH AS A COMMON LANGUAGE WITH FOREIGN STUDENTS AND TEACHERS.

2. A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MEANING ‘PATRIOT’ . THE STUDENTS ARE MORE PROUD NOW OF BEING LITHUANIANS AND INTRODUCING LITHUANIA TO THE WORLD.

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3. ALL THE STUDENTS HAVE GAINED CONFIDENCE IN USING COMPUTERS, UNKNOWN PROGRAMS AND ENGLISH .

4. EVERY MEMBER OF THE TEAM WAS VERY VALUABLE . EVERYONE ENJOYED WORK WITH THE eTwinning

PROJECT ‘MY NATIVE PLACE IN NUMBERS’.

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T together                   E           everybody

                   A           achieves                   M          more!