Author: AUTHOR: class IV + V (multi-grade class,) I.S. Abbé Trèves, Breuil Cervinia, Vallée d'Aoste (IT)
PARTNER: class IV + V (multi-grade class), IC Bosco Chiesanuova, San Rocco Primary School, Verona (IT)
Introduction
The Matterhorn (own photo)
QUOTATION BY WALTER BONATTI, ITALIAN EXPLORER, MOUNTAINEER AND JOURNALIST: "The great mountains have the value of the men who climb them, otherwise they would be nothing more than a pile of stones"
Our class has the task of informing our friends in San Rocco about the flora and fauna around the Matterhorn in order to encourage them to visit our country.
Learning Objectives
- Key competences for citizenship: learning how to learn
- Civic education: knowing the main rules of behavior and respect useful for the protection of the forest
- Sciences: knowing the flora and the fauna of the territory and to know how to safeguard
- Language: producing texts in various languages
- Technology: knowing and using information and communication tools
Process
The work is divided into stages:
First stage
- find out information.
- to become able to choose the most important information.
Second stage
- The pupils work alone or in a group. They have to find out information about the flora and the fauna around the Matterhorn.
- The pupils have to find out the right behaviour in order to protect the wood. This stage will take place both in the classroom (the smartboard will be used) and in the computer room.
Creation of a website
The pupils with the help of the teacher create a website.
Le website has to contain:
- a first page with the title of the activity and the name of the class that has made it.
- a summary that contains the main topics.
- the topics:
- an introduction
- some drawings of the pupils.
- the different steps of the trekking around the Matterhorn.
- a stage concerning the right behaviour in order to protect the wood.
Evaluation
- Oral self-assessment discussions : scientific knowledge, informatic knowledge and social aptitudes.
- The teacher will observe her pupils all long the project.