Minutes of meeting – Den Haag, november 14th, 2013

 

Lycée Edouard Belin Vesoul	Holy Family School Newbridge	Hofstad Lyceum Den Haag
Mme. Morales, Christine Mme. Perceval, Marie Hélène Mme. Grisard, Catherine Mme. Depery,  Gisèle Mme. Nouvel, Rozenn	Mrs. Deirdre Lloyd Mrs. Mary Mc Mahon Mrs. Sarah Allen Mrs. Caroline Rochford Mrs. Aiofe Carey	Mrs. Françoise Vogelaar Mr. Henk Kleinrouweler

 

Project team

 

·         Project leader is Christine Morales.

·         Project languages: FR and EN

·         Each team will consist of at least 8 pupils per school, 15 years of age

·         Project website:  http://fpbi.jimdo.com/ ; each team is authorized to change the contents of its’ own part of this website.

·         We should organize a project logo competition amongst our students. Three most popular ideas per country in a final round. Students can vote.

 

Meetings

 

·         Three meetings are planned (exact dates to be agreed upon):

o  March 2014 in France

o  September/October 2014 in ireland

o  March 2015 in The Netherlands

·          Communication will take place via e-mail, skype etc.

 

Ideas for projects (results from the brainstorm session)

 

·         Create an application (APP) for iPad/iPhone/tablet PC, based on the idea of a virtual suitcase. If a user activates the APP he can start activities like games, quizzes, guided tours etc.

·         Ideas for APP content and/or miniprojects:

o  A geocache GPS game that will lead the players through various national monuments. A geography teacher of each school is available for assistance

o  Country sterotypes, to be used as the starting point of a road towards a more thoughtful picture of each country

o  A quiz based on pre-recorded sounds: ‘What is happening here?’

o  A series of photo impressions of each country visit

o  A ‘famous scientists’ project – celebrities in science per country

o  A special day (like the already existing mole day in Ireland): math day, comenius day, language day etc. May 9^th is Europe day, we also could use this in our project

o  Activate your senses: food and drinks from each country (e.g. whiskey, champagne, jenever. How is it produced?)

o  Musical activities, e.g. a selfmade song in three languages

o  Famous writers per country, famous poems with comments from students of each country

o  Films (like the film project already running in France) with subtitles in various languages.

o  (The history of) royal houses in each country; current political systems

o  Excavations and discoveries (e.g. the Tallund man, Otzi etc.)

o  Simple scientific experiments (physics, chemistry)

o  Multi-discipline phenomenons, e.g. the dykes in The Netherlands. You vcan consider these from various perspectives: geographical, physical, historical etc.

o  National feasts and ceremonies

o  Create a physical object (manual art activity, e.g. a big suitcase, statue or other object of art) during each visit. With each visit the object grows & develops further. After three visit weeks the object is finished. This could e.g. be a triptych, a painted on canvas

o  A brief language course: learn simple sentences for daily practice

 

 

Den Haag, November 16^th 2013,

Henk Kleinrouweler