Name
Ravenna Children Festival
Topic
Important people and places in Ravenna from my pupils' point of view
Learning time
10 hours
Designed time
8 hours
Size of class
23
Description
You have to prepare and promote "Ravenna Children Festival". You have to choose people and places in your opinion significant because they have contributed to change the world and to " walk on the long road to freedom" Who will you put on the poster? Which sentence will you choose? Which places in Ravenna will you choose as performing places? Why?
Aims
- promote and prepare a real event and a final product. - choose significant people and to explain the reasons of their choice - collect information on the town and the area in order to convince other children to come. to use a foreign language to involve children all over Europe
Outcomes
Knowledge, Comprehension, Analysis
Editor
kira
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Let's start! How can we be happily divided in groups?
120 minutes)
  • Investigate
    15
    23
    1
    The Big Idea is: involve my children aged 10, to think and prepare their own Ravenna festival, choosing arts and characters to put on their poster and to convince other children from all over the world to come and visit them during the event. So the question could be: You have to prepare and promote "Ravenna Children Festival", Who do you put on the poster? Which sentence will you choose? Which places in Ravenna will you choose as performing places? Why? Each group will choose the way to promote the event and the final product. I'll use a CLIL approach and ask them to communicate in English. Most of the subjects will be involved such as Italian, English, History, Social Studies, Geography, Religion, Maths, Music, Art...
  • Collaborate
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    3
    0
    My proposal is to divide my class of 23 children in 8 groups as we have 8 iPads to use and each group will be composed of three children, in my opinion the right number to work properly. As they are very young ( 9-10 years pf age), as first step I'll ask them to individually think about a famous person to connect with our town. This choice will determine the " happy match".
  • Discuss
    60
    23
    1
    As Collaboration Tool I'll propose to choose Popplet, a tool to build mind maps and to easily share them, also online. We'll start and build a map where to collect, as brain storming, our first ideas and our draft copy of what will be our very end product ( a poster and a leaflet of the event)
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And now...Ready to start!
60 minutes)
  • Practice
    30
    23
    1
    Groups: done! Each group has to work on a character and on a connected place in Ravenna. There's a significant sentence to choose and combine with the chosen character. With the whole class we'll prepare a grid to follow in order to collect useful information for the end product. It will prevent them not to waste their time. The end product will be a poster, a leaflet and a page of our wiki dedicated to the event.
  • Discuss
    30
    3
    0
    Children, in groups, will discuss their choice and where to find the information. They have to follow the grid we've prepared in the step before.
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Let's collect our ideas!
180 minutes)
  • Produce
    60
    3
    0
    In groups, children collect their character's information, the performing place in Ravenna and the sentence to write on the advertisement. Everything is collected and written in the grid.
  • Produce
    30
    23
    0
    They'll share and exchange their completed grid with all the details.
  • Collaborate
    30
    23
    0
    We'll discuss together on the groups' choice.
  • Practice
    60
    23
    0
    In a map of the town, we'll use Thinglink https://www.thinglink.com/ to create a virtual and interactive route with all the performing places.
Notes:
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Let's aggregate & QR!
60 minutes)
  • Produce
    60
    3
    1
    Children in groups will collect all the information ( files, pictures, websites, maps...) about their favorite famous person performing in Ravenna using Blendspace: https://www.tes.com/lessons/dashboard This is an example on Malala: https://www.tes.com/lessons/iF5gkzd_F5oTpw/edit Each collection will have a link or a QR code to share. The QR will be positioned on the Thinglink map.
  • Read Watch Listen
    0
    Once the map is completed, each group will visit the other groups' proposals using a QR reader such as Qrafter.
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Peer Assessment
60 minutes)
  • Discuss
    30
    23
    0
    Each group presents the work done. All the class have to assess the process and the result. These are some driving questions they can ask: Am I reading this correctly? What I think works really well is... What I worry about is... Maybe this part would work better if you...
  • Investigate
    30
    23
    1
    This is the rubric, in attachment, I've prepared in order to gain a formative but also a summative assessment on the whole project.
Notes:
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Learning Experience

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