Our Pi Adventure

(Dec 2015/May 2016)

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Description:

Several activities around the Pi Number (13/15 years old)

Work's steps: 

Activity 1 : About me

We match pupils, so that each pupil has one or more penfriends, depending on the total number of pupils in both countries.

Each pupil creates a personal presentation about 6 different topics

( who I am ; what I look like ; my family ; what I am like; my hobbies ; when I'm older)

Activity 2 : About our schools/areas

Pupils present their schools through photos or videos.

Real postcards are sent to partners to make discover our respective areas (each pupil sticks a picture of himself/herself on the postcard)

Pupils take some short videos of themselves in their favorite place of their respective towns, and all videos are gathered together by their teachers.

Activity 3 : Drawing contest (creation of a logo)

Pupils have to create a logo for our project (we ask a hand-made drawing).

All pupils‘drawings will be scanned and posted on the Twinspace

In Italy, pupils will vote their three favourite French drawings, and vice versa

(votes using a Google form).

Winners in both countries are awarded.

For activities 4 and 5, some transnational groups are built with pupils from both countries.

Activity 4 : Pilish creations

Each group has to create a text in Pilish (the length of words in a sentence is determined by pi's digits), eventually "piems" (poems in pilish), about different math topics.

Activity 5 : Pi Quiz

Each group finds some questions in order to create a transnational quiz about Pi.

Pupils can use some forums created on the twinspace to communicate.

Bonus Activities

1) Chat sessions

Pupils could use a chat twice (at the beginning and at the end of the project)

2) Christmas

Pupils prepare a poster all together, writing Christmas wishes for the partners, and explaining our Christmas traditions

3) Easter

Pupils will send personalized Easter cards to their penfriends, explaining our Easter traditions and will join little personal surprises

4) Let's celebrate the Pi Day (March 14th)

- cooking some pi-themed food

- creating a tee-shirt for our partners'classroom

Expected results:

- A great cooperation between France and Italy
- Having fun with Maths, ICT, Arts and English
- Encouragement of pupils

- to improve our pupils'skills in Maths and English
- to use ICT for the creation of several documents and for the communication between pupils

The partners:
FRANCE - ITALY

Teachers foundators :

Manuela CASASOLI (Italy) & Carole TERPEREAU (France)
  
Link to the Twinspace:

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/9283/home

Link to the project's blog:

http://ourpiadventure.blogspot.com/



Award:     eTwinning National Quality Label in November 2016