The three year activity plan   2003-2006

Year 1-  school y. 2003/04

Introduction
1. Students use computer tools for their first drawings of: themselves, school, home and country symbols.
2. Students learn how to:
- use different tools for drawing pictures, they work cooperatively by helping each other.
- prepare a picture for publishing on the web (editing it .jpeg or .gif, making thumb-nail pictures),
- scan those created traditionally (paper, coloured pencils, crayons…)
- take pictures with a digital camera and process the photos for further use.                   
3. They visit a local gallery:  
- get acquainted with its purpose
- activities
- observing exhibition
- planning the exhibition of the project pupils’ artworks

Main part

Activity one

1. Each country chooses one well known artwork of the artist from their own country. Gives simple information about the artwork, artist and the time when it was created. The artworks and information will be published on the web.
2. All partners have to copy all paintings – they decide which class is going to do what artwork, only 7 of the best examples chosen by kids are published on the web (for each example 1).
3.  Each partner school chooses the appropriate music (from the artwork time if possible) to accompany the kids creating their work – cross curricula with Music.
4. After finishing their artworks kids decide which ones could be included in the project materials. All the artworks are published on the notice boards or panels in the classroom or school. Pupils describe how they did it and what was easy or difficult for them (discussion or writing). They evaluate the use of computer tools for drawing. There could be parallel groups doing the same picture in a classical way ‘paper and pencil’ or using ICT.

Activity two
Students arranged into two groups – one describing a painting the other trying to draw it by reading the description (mother tongue and art; the idea developed by Bitte Melin from Sweden). In the didactic section there is a description of the procedure.
The purpose of this activity is to make pupils aware how important it is to use  the right words to describee certain paintings. Teachers are not supposed to tell or talk about the painting's perspective - colours - near and far away items - and so on. We expect the pupils themselves will be aware of all the mentioned elements of art.

III Activity three - general

1.There is possibility to prepare interactive exercises about the artworks and the painters – easy version for joyful work in the classroom. They could sort artworks by authors or by countries.

2. They give useful links about each ones country on the web, so that each partner school is able to prepare a quiz about all the countries involved (publish and answer them)

Year 2 - school year 2004/05

The activities for the second year cover art, mother tongue, music, science, dance and foreign languages.

Activity one

1. After listening to the story – The man who planted trees students illustrate it using computer tools for drawing – they choose the illustrations, make the book, discuss the story and write down the main thoughts.
 

2. They go out, observe the trees around them, they talk about trees – biological, geographical, ecological view
3. They decide which tree would become their “friend” to admire, observe and help (the main aim of this is to make children aware of the importance of plants and nature in general for human beings)
4. They observe the chosen tree – they find out the type of the tree; they name it, they note down the changes through the year – photos or drawings, texts, they listen to the sounds of it – the plants also “talk”; they produce sounds with the help of instruments or …,;  they mime the movements of the tree – dancing, write poetry, essays, stories in mother tongue, etc…,; some of this activities should be described and translated into English.

5. Kids try to translate some words about a tree – type of the tree, parts of it, into English.

Activity two

1. Each school organizes a meeting with a local artist – painter or sculptor,  students visit his studio and they are presented with one of his paintings /artworks. At the end they interview him and publish it on the web.

2. In the studio or at school afterwards students can draw, scupture trees – compare their drawings to different drawings of well known painters.

Year 3- school year 2005/0

OUTCOME DISSEMINATION

The last year would be mainly devoted to the preparation of the CD and booklet of the project, the project webpage and the exchange of the ideas, exhibitions of the kids’ artworks in the Comenius corners and country’s galleries and the official opening of the exhibition of the chosen artworks of the project in Slovenian Gallery, presenting outcomes of the project to the journalist and local TV, organising head teacher study visits, writing reports and articles about the project.

Prepared by:
Viljenka Šavli & Metka Miljavec
Slovenia