IS GEOGRPHY DESTINY?
ERASMUS +
SUMMARY OF PROJECT
Our project "Is geography destiny?" during which at about 110 students between 14 and 18 years old from 6 partners will directly join activities and get a chance to develop their global competences consists of 5 mobilities and local activities that will take place through 24 months. And also, the first mobility will be devoted to discussing the details of According to the questionnaire we had at the beginning of the project, our students have some information about climate change, geographical conditions around them but they need to be guided. Besides, even though they have had some practice with technological tools such as 3D printer and Web 2.0 tools, they need more opportunities to develop their skills. Therefore we have decided to organize activities that will create opportunities to enrich their skills.
Also, we trust they will have positive developments in the skills of creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication through activities based on geography as the common tool among partners. We chose geography as it is a global topic that affects all human activities, enables students to understand global issues and learn other countries and their cultures.
At the end of our project, we want to have students who have
- a more developed feeling of respect towards people with different cultural and historical backgrounds
- learned geography and its effect on their culture and lifestyles
- been aware of the importance of the term sustainability
- had more accurate information about the causes and effects of climate change
- developed their ICT and foreign language skills
- learned how to prepare more academic and detailed reports.
Our students' progress in these areas will be followed by various exams, questionnaires, checklists, surveys, and interviews.
For our teachers, we want to create challenges and opportunities to develop their professional competencies, update their methods by learning new education systems, meeting and sharing ideas with teachers from different cultures and workshops on 21st-century teaching skills, Web 2.0 tools, Google apps, distance learning tools, and CLIL. The most important product of our project will be UTOPIA CITIES which will be designed according to the experiences and knowledge our students
Our Values and motivation
This project has been created to develop our students' global competences as they live in an interconnected world so they have to have the capacity to examine local, global and intercultural issues. As they are more likely to work with people from different historical and cultural backgrounds, they need to understand and appreciate the perspectives and world views of others. What's more, they face a lot of information from different sources so they have to have developed critical thinking skills.
In order to reach our aims, we have decided to use geography as a common tool among us because geography is one of the most important things that all humankind share and affects all human activities including our daily lives, music, food, trade, and traditions. And also it enables us
- to learn about our countries better so that we can fully appreciate the sources we have
- understand global issues
- put history into context.
As geography affects many things in our lives, we have planned to connect our project with many topics such as climate changes, ancient trade roads, cultural heritages, and migration. First of all, we implemented a questionnaire to detect our students' level of knowledge and interest in geography, history, climate changes, and global competences.
According to the results
- their knowledge about climate change needs improvement
- they need to be supported in terms of understanding effects of geographical conditions
- they need more opportunities to develop in the fields of ICT and 4C skills.
We have therefore planned activities to support them with accurate knowledge about climate changes, effects of geographical conditions on humans and lead them to search, learn, compare and create as a team. During the activities, the dominant character will be different. For 3 mobilities, geography will be dominant and we will study its role on
- thriving or collapsing of ancient civilizations
- development of democracy
- a country's economy and relations with other countries.
Objective of project "Is geography destiny?
"The main aim of our project is to develop our students' global competences by creating challenges them to make them search, learn and create materials working as a team.
knowledge of geography around them Furthermore, we will study many other topics under the title of geography, and by these we want our students to - learn the importance of sustainable growth
study the ancient trade roads and understand how they connected all the nations to each other
be more innovative and more courageous to follow their dreams by studying the people who succeeded despite the geographical and other obstacles
learn about people who were victims of the periods when democracy collapsed, and students' stories about the victims of Nazi Camp about people who were forced to stay there
skills of critical thinking, collaborating, communicating and working as a team
learn the geographical conditions which can be a threat for them and the ways to live with these
find out the evolution of democracy and compare the most democratic countries and their own countries - develop their digital and vocabulary skills.
have more specific information about the reasons and results of climate change
develop their skills in conducting academic research and preparing reports
develop their knowledge of ancient civilizations and how geography affected them
Videos and other informative materials that will be created during critical thinking activities
learn about the raw materials in their countries and their benefits for them
