General information of the project

ETwinning project will promote history of the Hospitaller`s order and their cultural heritage left in Rhodos, Cyprus, Malta, or other territories. The goal of the project is to learn about the history and culture of the hospitaller Knights order. This project joins teachers from different European countries. Each team formulates on Twinspace a historical/cultural task to the other partners. The task will be solved by students and will be presented to all on the Twinspace. All the teams will answer in different cultural contexts. The project lasts for six months. At the end of the project pupils will create a collaborative book – a chronicle that will be send to our partners school.

Subjects:

Art, Citizenship, Foreign Languages, History, History of Culture, Informatics / ICT, Language and Literature, Religion

Languages:

EN

Pupil's age:

13 - 17

Tools to be used:

Chat, e-mail, Forum, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Project Diary, Twinspace, Video conference, Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...)

Aims:

Getting to know the knight`s culture and chavalery ethos; Making charities for the orphans to prove the knights` spirit and loialty;Facilitating communication in a foreign language; Improving results in the class, increasing the interest of the participants; Using ICT, solving tasks, sharing and disseminating results by teachers and students; Collaboration will take place on eTwinning, we will create a blog and a wiki. 

Work process:

sept/oct Presentation of each country, town, school, students; 

nov.Creating a logo of the project . Each student ask questions about the history of the knights hospitallers order on through the forum;  

dec. Creating a collection of digital historical stories, creating the blog of the project;

 jan. Drawing different pictures about the order, building cathedral, making charities, organising charities like the hospitallers, helping old people, or children who lost their parents;

 feb. Creating a interactive map with the route of the Hospitallers between 1023 and 1834, using BUBL.US; 

march : Every day life in the castle. Creating a multilinguistic dictionary on the subject of the project ; april : Celebrations of the hospitallers order. Creating an album with pictures, drawings; 

may : Creating games, puzzles, quizzes, crosswords on the subject , using mathemathics to calculate the dimentions of the cathedral and other buildings made by the knights; 

 june Evaluation of the project.

Expected results:

The information aquired will help children develop their social abilities and their way of thinking waking them spread the chavalery spirit through their whole generation.