Adventurous Journey Through Europe and Culture ( LS-HU-84)

About the topic

This learning scenario is for secondary schools teaching English as a foreign language and aims to lead students through the process of planning a holiday. It combines their previous studies in English and other professional subjects. It allows students to include and integrate their personal experiences using ICT tools, and at the same time to promote creativity and cooperation. The lesson also aims at putting the culture into focus during holidays through Europeana Collections and getting to know different European cities.

Students browsing the Europeana collections for holiday inspiration

During this learning scenario, students will enrich their vocabulary related to travelling, free time activities, kinds of accommodation. Their language and ICT skills will also develop through the activities. They will learn to compromise and persuade their peers by presenting their ideas. Moreover, students will also have a better understanding of the diversity of cultures.

Planning a holiday: activities

In this learning scenario students carry out the following activities:

revise and extend their vocabulary connected to the topic Holidays, using dotstorming and padlet;
discuss the steps and the necessary information for organising a holiday;
check their vocabulary in a kahoot game;
browse Europeana Collections to find something they would like to visit on their holiday;
receive a QR code leading them to a European city
plan a holiday with their peers on canva
present their plan/brochure to the class
invite and persuade others to join their holiday, give reasons
evaluate their own and the others’ holiday plan
check how well they have got to know the three European cities in a wordwall game

Conclusion and follow up

Students could have a broad insight into the topic of Holidays by covering several other topics, carrying out a variety of activities and using different ICT tools. Europeana Collections directed them to the importance of culture on holidays. Besides that, browsing for information about the three European cities made them realise cultural differences. In that way, the students’ cultural awareness was raised.

To conclude, I believe the implementation of the learning scenario was successful. The trends and the 21st-century skills applied in it, along with the students’ feedback guarantee that it was also effective and enjoyable.

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7 Responses to "Adventurous Journey Through Europe and Culture ( LS-HU-84)"

ALINA MIRELA POPA says:

August 5, 2019 at 8:46 pm

Discovering the resources in Europeana project it is a precious treasure for teachers. I highly recommend to follow this concentrated learning scenarious which can give you as teachers many directions for teaching, and for students a lot of knowledges to acquire in an attractive and interesting way, with the help of we, as teachers in modern century education. The lesson made by Andrea Zsuzsanna Nagy called „Adventurous Journey Through Europe and Culture”, is an invitation for learning English, Geography, History, but also is recommended for class hour–time with class leader-teacher for improving students` general culture. The lesson is based on 21st century skills -collaboration – students work together, creativity – students create ideas, communication – students discuss ideas, present work , persuade their peers, career skills –professional skills and knowledge on tourism, technology skills – students use ICT tools for browsing and finding information. Even the aim of the lesson is preparing for holiday, it can be considered as a fully culturalisasion- cultural heritage, cultural sights-lesson that can be made all over school year classes. The information on this lessons are precious for students` general culture, many interesting links that have to be studied and reasearched for making the collaborative work. The scenarious is based on project-based learning, collaborative learning, visual search and learning. The lesson follows the logical steps and methods with many web2.0 tools uses and many Europeana Resources.
A student that loves travelling will be fascinated for this lesson just because finally, they have to work in groups for maps, travel guides and wordwall quiz. And a student that is not attract for travelling and vacation will be definetly fascinated. The learning scenarios can be taken as a entrepreneurial temptation too, students have to persuade their colleagues for choosing the “next vacation”.
Personally , I would choose all three directions: Copenhaga, London and Madrid. Why ?
You have to follow and implement Andrea`s Europeana learning scenario presented.  and you will understand the answer. Good Luck. Congratulations Andrea !

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1. andreanagy says:
  
  August 12, 2019 at 1:44 am
  
  Dear Alina, thank you for your thorough review! I wish you a pleasant journey to London, Copenhagen and Madrid virtually in the classroom and in reality, too!
  
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ivanabusuttil says:

February 3, 2020 at 9:37 pm

I really like the way this LS promotes creativity and collaboration. I really like how students can have an insight into the topic of holidays within other topics, using different learning tools. Well done!

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agnieszkapielorz says:

February 4, 2020 at 11:58 pm

I implemented this scenario during my revision lessons and it was an extremely good experience. Congratulations Andrea!

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ayrtoncurmi says:

February 6, 2020 at 11:46 pm

A well-structured learning scenario, well done! I like how you managed to incorporate a cross-curricular approach linking English with other subjects while integrating their personal experiences by using various digital resources. Thank you for sharing and well done.

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Ksenija Skoric says:

April 24, 2021 at 4:43 pm

Dear Andrea,

the title of your learning scenario appealed to me because it seemed close to what I teach. I work in a vocational school and teach tourism. I often work with final grade students on projects like this, which led me to study this scenario in more detail.

From the very beginning, I was attracted by extremely interesting digital tools and teaching materials. I use most of the listed digital tools in my teaching and they are very well accepted by students. The resources from the Europeana platform are also interesting as an example to students.

You explained in detail the integration into the curriculum and the goal of the learning scenario, as well as the trends and 21st century skills.

The brainstorming activity certainly looked a lot shorter to your students than the time stated in the Activities, often so when something is interesting. I haven’t used Dotstorming yet, it’s a pity that the free version only lasts for a month. The works of the students in the padlet are very nice, I like the way they presented the given topics, very creatively. I like the division into groups with QR codes, I believe it was the same for the students. Have you discussed cities that interest them before or is this your suggestion of cities to work with?

It would be good if students’ works could be placed here, brochures and posters were certainly very creatively made. It is an excellent idea to invite other students to join the trip through the presentation of group work.

It often happens that something is simple for teachers, but not for students. Canva is a wonderful tool with a lot of possibilities for creative work. The problem is probably that it is not used often, so when students find themselves in a situation where they need it, it is harder to do the tasks in that tool. When I suggest Canva or Genially, mostly students say they would prefer to do it in a power point presentation because they are more familiar with that tool.

I really like your LS, I will certainly apply some things in my work with the next generations of students.

Best regards, Ksenija

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barbarazadraveli says:

April 28, 2021 at 11:06 pm

Dear Andrea ,
Thank you very much for giving us the chance to implement your LS. It was a great work you have done and you will shortly be able to see how all your planned activities were put into practice . i have included a voting tool for my pupils to vote for their most favourite activity and their favourite destination . It was a really amazing learning experience and i hope you can respond to it when published . It is still draft and hopefully we will have the chance to communicate again when published !!!!

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