The first activity of the second year of the project.

Pupils from each school have divided in four groups (The Explorers, The Adventurers, The Historians and The Travelers). In order the members of each team to introduce themselves to their peers they used a web 2.0 tool called “Voki”. If you wish to see them click here. 

Second year of the project

The eTwinning project "The Young Time Travelers of History" continues for a second school year with new partners and more demanding activities. Also it aims to the collaboration of students and teachers of Greek origin from different European countries, since among to the partners of the project are the official Greek School of London of United Kigdom, Ugo Foscolo, of Pavullo nel Frignano, from Italy , with teacher of Greek origin, and the Elementary School of Perni from Greece. The project aims students to handle creatively issues of local history, producing collaborative tasks and working cooperatively in heterogeneous teams with members from all of partner schools.

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Greek National Label for the school year 2012 - 2013

All students and teachers' efforts involved in our eTwinning project: "The young time travelers of History" rewarded since it has been granted with the "Quality Label" by the National Support Service (NSS) of Greece after evaluation as far as it concerns the pedagogical innovation and creativity, the integration in the curriculum, the collaboration between schools - partners , the use of technology and the benefits derived from it. Students full of joy received their awards and they are ready for even more creative year!

Congratulations to all !!!

Our project it is not just a simple ordinary eTwinning project! It is something more!

 

The human dimension of the eTwinning program is here! Last summer the founders of our project, Carol Barriuso, English teacher of Escola Rosa Oriol of  Lliçà d'Amunt of Spain and Despoina Kapsali, teacher of Nea Karya Primary School of Greece, met each other again in Greece!. The first face to face meeting took place in Barcelona, in Spain, when teachers of Greek school traveled there for the needs of a Comenius program. The meeting in Greece gave the opportunity to partners of Nea Karya Primary school and Spanish school to get know each other better in family level and to establish even more their bonds of friendship for more fruitful cooperation. Also provided an opportunity for teachers involved in eTwinning project to discuss about the project, to exchange ideas and plan further actions of it.

Activities of the second year!

The project is going to be continued during this school year. The activities have already started! We are very glad that new partners have joined our project. 

Here are some of our new activities:

·         presentation of history of each partners school.

·         use of creative thinking techniques in teaching of history.

·         collaborative activities among students from all of schools using the ITC in creatively way.

The project under the view of students - Nea Karya Primary School, (Greece)

Students of Nea Karya Primary School present a short video that shows how they have worked for this project. The journey was fantastic and full of new experiences!!!

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Interviews from local people - Nea Karya Primary School, (Greece)

   Students of Nea Karya Primary School took interviews from local people so as to learn more about their local history, first in their class with the help of their teachers and latter outside the school, organising every detail by their own! 

          

"The Young Time Travelers of History" Slideshow: Ε'’s trip to Néa Karyá (near Φίλιπποι) was created with TripAdvisor TripWow!

Students take interviews from local people - Elementary School of Chrysohori, (Greece)

Children of fifth and sixth class trying to learn the history of CHRYSOCHORI through interviews that they get from the older residents of the village .The  experience is indeed unique. Thanks to everyone who opened their homes and the heart for the research team of our school.
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Role Playing to study history - Nea Karya Primary School, (Greece)

Students of Nea Karya Primary School used "Role Playing" to study history. They tried to revive an imaginary conversation that may have happened among the local people when their village was destroyed by Nestos River flood . They were divided in three groups. The group on the right represents the people that wanted to leave. The group on the left represents the ones that wanted to stay. While the group in the middle represents the local council that had to make the decision. 

Six Thinking Hats in Studing of history - 4th Primary School of Chrysoupolis, (Greece)

Students of 4th Primary School of Chrysoupolis put into practice the simplified form of "Six Thinking Hats" while Studing History Issues setting their own historic question, a fact that proves that the schools exhange ideas and teaching practices during this project.

Chrysohori through the children's photo - Elementary School of Chrysohori, (Greece)

Children of fifth and sixth grade became  photographers, journalists and researchers in order to find  informations about the history of CHRYSOCHORI. .They  photographed Chrysochori of today in order to learn about  Chrysochori's  past. Their photographs were unique. We hope that you will  discover Chrysochori through the work of the children.

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Students study photos using brainstorming - Nea Karya Primary School, (Greece)

Students of Nea Karya Primary School used brainstorming in order to examine historical sources (old photos, maps, old letters) in order to gather the necessary information and put them in the correct order in the timeline. Then students divided in two groups and put this technique into practice on their own through a competition in a form of a game.

and maps

Method of Studing Historical Sources With Braistorming Slideshow: 5th’s trip to Néa Karyá (near Φίλιπποι) was created with TripAdvisor TripWow!

Our local history - Nea Karya Primary School, (Greece)

Students of Nea Karya Primary School, after having made an extedend research in several history sources, made the below video in order to present their local history.
         
                                              

Our common story

Here is our common story as it has been written by Greek, Spanish and Romanian Schools.

Common Story

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The continue of the story - 4th Primary School of Chrysoupoli, (Greeece)

Students of 4th Primary School of Chrysoupoli have written their part of the common story.

4th Primary School - Local History

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Excanging mails & gifts between students of Spanish and Greek Schools - Nea Karya Primary School, (Greece)

Students of Spanish and Greek schools have exchanged letters, historical records and drawings. Below you can see the whole processure.

Excanging Gifts Between Etwinning Friends. Slideshow: 5th’s trip to Lliçà d'Amunt (near Granollers, Καταλονία) was created with TripAdvisor TripWow!

And the story goes on from the elementary school of Chrysohori

And the story goes on...

Students assesement of the project

Students of every participated school are invited to evaluate the project by completing the questionnaire below:

Lazarines in Chrysohori Kavalas - Elementary School of Chrysohori, (Greece)

The story - SCOALA GIMNAZIALĂ NR.1 PILDEŞTI, PILDESTI,CORDUN

Students from Romania have continue the creative writing between the partner schools on a common story.

Romania

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Brainstorming in studing of historical sources - Nea Karya Primary School, (Greece)

Method of Studing Historical Sources With Braistorming Slideshow: 5th’s trip to Néa Karyá (near Φίλιπποι) was created with TripAdvisor TripWow!
 

Hats Be Bono & Writing Storming in studing historrical resources - Nea Karya Primary School, (Greece)

Students of Nea Karya Primary School of Greece used a simplified form of De Bono Hats and Brainwriting in order to deal with a historical question that came out through their historical research. In 1946, local people moved from the old location of the village to the new one, as the biggest part of the village was destroyed completely by the flooding of Nestos River. Our "Young Time Travelers of History" traveled back in time, got into those local people shoes and set the following historical question to themselves: "Should we stay in the old location rebuilding our old houses or should we move to a new location?" 

Students found this procedure really interesting as it brought into surface various abilities of communication, cooperation, critical and creative thinking that were not triggered before. During this procedure the School Councelor of Primary Schools and the headmasters of the two of the three Greek Schools were present so as the latter to follow the procedure along with their students and strengthen the valuable cooperation among the schools that participated in the programme.

Exchanging gifts between eTwinning friends - Nea Karya Primary School, (Greece)

Students of Nea Karya Primary School wrote letters and made drawings for their eTwinning friends. Then they put them in envelopes with some old and new photoes of their place and a school book of Creek History (Ancient Years) and posted them. Students of Spanish School got the envelope and opened it with a much of enthousiasm. You can see below the photoes from Greek and Spanish Schools.

   

Excanging Gifts Between Etwinning Friends. Slideshow: 5th’s trip to Lliçà d'Amunt (near Granollers, Καταλονία) was created with TripAdvisor TripWow!

Our local history (Ancient years) - 4th Primary School of Chrysoupolis, (Greece)

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Early History of Catalonia & the liegend of its flag - (Spain)

    Students of Escola Rosa Oriol, Lliçà d'Amunt present their early history and the legend of their flag.

Early history of Catalonia

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Project Method - Nea Karya Primary School, (Greece)

    Students of Nea Karya Primary School used project method in their reaserch. Firstly they made a mid map. 

    Then they separated in four groups, each one of whom was to undertake a part and make a research focusing on it. Each team drawed its own logo.

    Every team had to find historicalresources and put them in the timeline and the dashboard of the reasearch.

  

Chrysohori through the years

Chrysohori through the years - Elementary School of Chrysohori, (Greece)

Chrysohori through the years

The students of  Chrysohori Kavalas interviewed elderly residents they recorded events and narratives they gathered photos from  the past of Chrysohori and they   photographed Chrysohori of today. The stories they heard were other touching other funny but all of them were very  interesting.

          

Ταξιδεύοντας με τις αναμνήσεις των προγόνων μας Slideshow: Τα’s trip to Chrysohori (near Φίλιπποι, Μακεδονία) was created with TripAdvisor TripWow!

And the story goes on... - Escola Rosa Oriol of Lliçà d'Amunt, (Spain)

The students of the Escola Rosa Oriol of Lliçà d'Amunt of Spain have continyed the story...

Spain Final story

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And the story begins... - Nea Karya Primary School, (Greece)

The students of Nea Karya Primary School have started the common story. Having completed their part are waiting for their partners to continue it....

nea karya final story

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Brainwriting & Heroes of the common story - Nea Karya Primary School, (Greece)

    The students of Nea Karya Primary School have worked on the characters of the common story, working in groups and using the braiwriting. Each team had to work with one basic character of the story.

Heroes

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History of Nestos River Region in Greece, (4th Primary School of Chrysoupolis, Greece)

    Students of 4th Primary School of Chrysoupolis travel in the past and present the history of their region from mythology until recent years.

History Of Nestos River Region - Greece

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Walking in the Old Village of Nea Karya... Following our gradparents' footsteps! (Greece, Nea Karya Primary School)

 

    Students of Nea Karya Primary School, as part of the program, visited the location of the old village of Nea Karya (known as Karampei) in order to transfer and expand into the field all the useful information and knowledge gained through their investigation so far.

    The students wandered in the neighborhoods where people from Karya and Karampei used to live and walked along the old riverbed of Nestos River, having as guides two local residents of the village who were fortunate enough to live in both the old and the new village, Mr. Adalakis Eleutherios and Mr. Poulouktsis Stelios. They visited the little church of Zoodochou Pigi, which was later built on the location of the church of the old village. While exploring the courtyard of the church they found parts of the old church, the stairs and the mosaic on the landing, which are preserved until today. The students tried and visualised the Old Village square, and by crosschecking information gathered by interviews, old photos and maps they found the location of the community centre, the stone house of Kara Mpei (the area was named after him) where the first school of the village was housed for a few years until the regular school building was constructed. Students also tried and visualised the location of the legendary mulberry tree, which offered its shadow to everyday people’s meetings. They traced the location of not only the Christian cemeteries but also of the Turkish ones (which existed before Greek people set up in that area) and the area that the school was, but only its ruins have remained. Lastly their look wandered to the boundaries of the village, making the necessary comparisons between the old and the new village so as to identify similarities and differences as far as the size of the area, the street layout and their morphology are concerned. We warmly thank our two guides Mr. Lefteris and Mr. Stelios for their overall contribution to our research, including the amount of materials they have spared and the significant amount of personal time they have dedicated in our effort.

    It was a valuable experience, as we were given the opportunity to follow the footsteps of our grandparents, and look from a different angle the place that we usually visit but ignore its history.

    For more information related to the history of Nea Karya you could refer to the website “Historical Sources” of the blog.

       

Nea Karya (Old Village) Slideshow: 5th’s trip to Néa Karyá (Old Village) (near Φίλιπποι) was created with TripAdvisor TripWow!

Nea Karya in black & white! (Greece, Nea Karya Primary School)

    The history of Nea Karya village as it illustrated by a collection of old photos. The photos are divided in three groups. The oldest ones had been taken at early years of  20th centrury in the old village located in the European Part of Turkey. The others are from the old village in Greece, which has been destroyed and abandoned after the Nestos River flooding (1922 - 1946) . While the newest ones are form the early years of the Nea Karya village in the present location.

PILDESTI- PHOTOGRAPHY YESTERDAY AND TODAY! (Romania)

SCOALA GIMNAZIALĂ NR.1 of Pilaesti presents their local history.

 

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The proposals of the elementary school of Chrysohori ( Greece)

Our school (Turkey)

Partner Schools

Here are the schools that are participating in this project. For further details just click on the "Partner Schools" label!

Participating Schools Slideshow: The’s trip to 4 cities including Pildeşti (near Roman, Ρουμανία) was created with TripAdvisor TripWow!

School -Pildesti (Romania)

 Common hero

Our hero is DRACULA. He is a very well-known historied figure around the world. He will be accompanying ARGOS throughout our adventure. 

 

Time machine

 We think the time machine could looks like a spaceship which has a special design and the latest technology.

OUR LOCAL HERO (Turkey)

OUR HERO AND TIME MACHINE (Turkey)

Project heroes and the time machine from Spanish School (Spain)!

Primary school of Chrysohori - Kavala (Greece)

Presentation on the Local History by the 4th Primary School of Chrysoupolis (Greece)

Presentation from Rosa Oriol Anguera school (Lliçà d'Amunt, Barcelona)

Students' excursion in the Old Village location of Nea Karya (Nea Karya Primary School, Greece)

       On Thursday 26th April 2013 the students of Nea Karya Primary School visited the location of the Old Village. Since we had studied the local historical maps the students were given the chance to actually see the place they were studying about. It was a great opportunity for them to explore the location that they usually visit but from a different point of view. Having as guides two local elder people, we were guided around the river bed and we found where the village church was built (only the stairs have left), we found where the square,the municipality and the school of the village were located. There is nothing left now as the village was destroyed by the big flood of Nestos River in 1945.

The Old Village of Nea Karya Slideshow: Nea’s trip to Néa Karyá (Old Village) (near Φίλιπποι) was created with TripAdvisor TripWow!

The start of our common story! (Nea Karya Primary School, Greece)

    The students of Nea Karya Primary School, having already chosen the appropriate historical records, they have already started the process of writing their story, for which we are going to use and experiment on techniques on creative writing.

    The first stage is to define the characteristics of the heroes’ personality. At first the groups distributed their heroes. They wrote his or her name on a piece of paper and then by using the brainwriting technique they found his or her individual characteristics. At the end of the procedure each group presented their work at the whole class.

     Now we are ready to move forward to the pre-writing stage. 

Brainwriting in Groups For Story Writing Slideshow: 5th’s trip to Néa Karyá (near Φίλιπποι) was created with TripAdvisor TripWow!