Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 83

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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In the part Country and People, our pupils learnt
about the Polish Christmas and Easter traditions,
created cook books with traditional Polish and
Bavarian recipes, prepared quizzes about Poland
and Bavaria created a model of a Polish-Bavarian
garden and they also created their own board game
called Bolek and Lolek discover Poland. This game
is based on the Polish book of the same name.
In the part Literature, Czech pupils found and
illustrated some Bavarian proverbs and their Polish
partners added their Polish version. Polish group
prepared two presentations with Polish proverbs
and sayings. They also created a presentation
containing words that are similar in Polish and
German. Czech pupils added the Czech translation
to them.
We used many tools for creating our outputs –
computers (MS Office Word and PowerPoint, Movie
Maker, Superlame, PiZap), iPads (PicCollage,
Memopad), camera and camcorder (for taking
photos and videos). Thanks to the project, our
pupils have improved their language knowledge and
their ICT skills. Working on the project was a big
challenge for our pupils because they are beginners
in German. They had to use dictionaries and
different translators, but despite their low level of
German they were able to fulfil all the tasks. They
also straightened their friendship that started five
years ago.
Our pupils really enjoyed working on the project
and they were ready to work on it in their free time
too. Working on the project tasks motivated them
to learn German – the project work was more
interesting than learning from a course book,
although they had to use “more difficult” language
than they find in their course books. One of the
most important things is that they learnt
“unknowingly” new vocabulary, grammar etc. And
of course, they learnt more about their partners’
country, its geography, history and culture. They
found out the similarities and differences of our two
Slavic languages – Czech and Polish.
In April, we sent all the outputs of our project to
Bavaria. Our project was really successful – it was
awarded the second prize. Pupils from our both
schools were allowed to meet in Bamberg in July
2019 where they got the prize for their project. It is
not usual that pupils participating in an eTwinning
project meet personally, but our pupils could meet
thanks to their participation in the contest. They
spent wonderful three days in Bamberg together
and met pupils from other countries (Germany,
Poland, Hungary and Slovenia) who participated in
the contest too.
Our project outputs are in our TwinSpace:
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/72983/home and
on our school websites:
http://zsprimda.cz/etwinning-2018-19/ and
http://www.szkolamielzyn.pl/news.php?readmore=
498.
Jana Anděl Valečková is a Czech, English, German and
History teacher at the Primary school in Přimda, Czech
Republic. She has been active in eTwinning since 2010
and she is an eTwinning ambassador.
Małgorzata Walczykiewicz is a German and ICT teacher at
the Primary school in Mielżyn, Poland. She has been active
in eTwinning since 2013.
Mysteries and beauty of astronomy through an
eTwinning project
by Carmen Alexandra Miricioiu and Gabriela Călin
Area Lake 2 Priseaca, near Târgovişte, Romania
hosted a special event on June 12 and 14, 2019,
due to the interest in mysteries and beauty of
astronomy, seen and felt by hundreds of students
of the Constantin Cantacuzino National College in
Târgoviște.
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