Diamond

DIAMOND POEM PROJECT
Progetto di kidlink - http://www.kidlink.org/italiano
Classe 2D - Anno scolastico 2005-06

Il progetto sarà in lingua francese per quanto riguarda la descrizione personale degli alunni. Il poema sarà invece nelle tre lingue: italiano, francese e inglese. Ogni alunno inoltre preparerà un collage utilizzando rami, foglie, bacche, ovvero tutto ciò che la natura offre in autunno e disegnerà la figura o il volto umano.

Project Description:
• Create a collage using all what autumn can offer you in nature.
• Write a sentence or more describing your art work.
• Write a "Diamond Poem" that has to do with your work of art, following this pattern:

Activities:
• Students will learn how to open the project page and how to use KidSpace
• They will open a personal page
• They will draw their picture as a collage
• They will post the picture
• They will write a paragraph describing the drawing and the reasons of their choice
• They will write a poem in English, Italian and French following the given pattern
• They will learn how to use the Internet
• They will use online dictionaries to find useful words
• Finally they will write and post comments

Curriculum links:

Technology:
• Updating, revising and maintaining web pages to ensure quality
• Using appropriate vocabulary to ensure a clear presentation of text
• Locating a web site using searching skills
• Making a personal page
• Design graphic

Language:
• Practising grammar and syntax in a real situation
• Increasing vocabulary
• Creating dictionaries of words and phrases in other languages
• Developing strategies for overcoming language barriers
• Engaging in languages other than the native tongue
• Communicating ideas clearly

Art:
• Analyzing and comparing web pages to find examples of good design
• Analyzing colors and their meaning in a web page
• Creating graphical illustrations to add to web pages

Skills:
• Evaluating reliability of online information
• Identifying strategies to deal with unexpected situations
• Locating outside support for the common development plans
• Make informed choices
• Empathy (developing positive social skills.)
• Self-awareness
• Comparing and finding what is shared with others and how to link to knowledge other participants create and evaluate it.

Project Assessment:
Evaluation will be asked for:
• ICT, the multimedia lab.
• English and French: the use of a foreign language in a project
• Self-learning