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My Country – In Your Classroom
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In this project, SchoolNet Global students describe aspects of the country in which they live - using their own words and pictures.
Their completed projects are building an archive of personal comment about different countries including local and national features, places of interest, and how our thoughts and actions affect our environment. This commentry is created by young people and for young people and is helping to widen intercultural and international understanding.
Bilingual students and those learning a second language are invited to write their investigations in both languages, adding a further dimension to their accounts.
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How to Introduce the Project
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Ask your students these questions:
• Where do we live? How does your environment belong to you?
• What can you change about your country and what are you unable to change?
• How important are we, the citizens of our country?
• What are the most important local and national features? What is special, spectacular or important about them?
• If people of your age came to visit, where would you take them?
• What could you do to make your country a better place to live?
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How to Choose Places to Study
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Ask your students to discuss the local area, the region and the whole country. Each student, or group of students could chose a favourite topic to research, for example:
• Geographical features
• Interesting places – man made and natural
• Changes that I can remember
• Caring for our country
A group might wish to study other countries and undertake a comparative study.
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Gathering the Information
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To help your students decide what to write, you could ask these questions:
• What is the climate like in your country?
• Who governs it?
• How do people make a living and how are their roles important to the country as a whole?
• What do you like about it? What would you change?
Once the students have completed their own investigations, they can ask older members of their family for their thoughts and present these in separate investigations, providing interesting comparisons for the students, their families and the whole SchoolNet Global audience.
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What Do They Really Think?
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IMPORTANT! In this project we aim to present students’ perspectives of the country in which they are living. It is important to emphasise that students should write about their own thoughts, ideas and observations. This means identifying what is important to them and not what they have been told is important by others. It is also important to ensure that students use their own communication styles, rather than creating a formal tourist-style brochure.
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Multilingual Experiences
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Bilingual students or those learning another language are invited to write their investigations in both languages. This will not only give them real life experience in the use of other languages but will also widen the audience for their thoughts and ideas about the country they are living in at present.
The My Country investigation allows students to present their work in more than one language.
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Extension Activities
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More able students can undertake in-depth studies, for example:
• How geographical features form and change over time. How are they changing now?
• How the country is governed – locally and nationally
• Environmental issues
• How is the use of digital technology affecting the country – jobs, communications, rural communities etc?
• If the school has links with schools in other countries, they could work on a joint project, perhaps writing in each other's language.
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Online Investigations
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Students can explore SchoolNet Global’s published pages to find out lots more information, for example:
• Where do young people really like to go? Why?
• How does this vary for people of different ages, in different regions?
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