Friday 29 October 2021
Thursday 28 October 2021
Wednesday 27 October 2021
Friday 22 October 2021
Curricular integration of the eTwinning project "Today's Seeds, Tomorrow's Trees" (2021-2022) Part II
The word formation exercise 'How do trees secretly talk to each other?' is an original interactive resource created for the eTwinning project "Today's Seeds, Tomorrow's Trees" which allowed the students to produce new words by modification of existing words (derivation).
After finding the solutions, the students realised on their own the fact that word formation highlights the significance of a language because a word can be transformed into a new one with the help of prefixes or suffixes and that its meaning changes sometimes completely: eg solitude-solitary, science-scientists, fond-fondly, seed-seedlings, survive-survival, health-healthier, defend-defences, near-nearby, altruism-altruistic, inform-information.
Also, the video How trees secretly talk to each other (BBC News) engaged the students in discussions, allowing them to practise and improve not only their vocabulary and understanding of the topic, but also their communication skills.
After finding out about the fact that trees communicate and share resources right under our feet, using a fungal network nicknamed the Wood Wide Web, often behaving in an altruistic way, most students concluded that our human society should follow their example and share the spare resources with the less fortunate ones.
"Dreams Will Give Us Wings" - an online lesson to develop the key-competences of the future graduates and the result of eTwinning collaboration (21/10/2021)
On 21 October, 2021, two classes of students from two eTwinning schools located in two counties - Prahova and Buzău- participated in an online lesson planned and coordinated by their teachers of English, Mrs. Andreea Goldschmidt and Mrs. Emilia Frînculeasă.
Puchenii Mari Secondary School (Prahova) and "Radu Vlădescu" Theoretical High School (Pătârlagele) are currently implementing the eTwinning project entitled "Together for the Graduate Profile",
https://live.etwinning.net/projects/project/313051, whose aims are:
- to raise awareness of the role of school and education, including eTwinning projects and partnerships, in achieving school progress towards personal and professional success;
- to create and capitalize on real opportunities to initiate, carry out and participate in activities aimed at actively, creatively and collaboratively engaging participants in their own learning and personal development, also by fructifying the chance to (self)assess key competencies, attitudes and values in real life contexts;
- to develop the profile of each future high school graduate, more precisely the communication in Romanian and English, mathematical, scientific and technological skills, digital skills, learning to learn, social and civic skills, initiative and entrepreneurship, etc.;
- to promote the eTwinning platform and the participating institutions as friendly environments and spaces for inclusion, empathy, equity and solidarity.
The participants shared their goals and plans for the future and expressed their opinions about the obvious, logical steps, skills and competences necessary for a future career in fields like medical and health services, education, management, entertainment, law enforcement etc. They also discovered similarities, shared interests, passions and common personality traits as well as related purposes and strategies.
The two coordinators also took advantage of the benefits of online collaboration and digital tools, allowing their students to interact in a live capacity and put the remote real-time collaboration through synchronous exchange of digitised student work to good use.
Monday 18 October 2021
The participants of the eTwinning project "Today's Seeds, Tomorrow's Trees"
“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”―
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