Unit 2nd My neighborhood

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In this unit and in the chapter with the title "My Neighborhood", pupils prepare panoramas with their favorite neighborhood sites, explain and describe why they choosed them.

This is a group/collaborative activity on writing development activity.

Although it is obvious that aims to develop linguistic and verbal intelligence, the nature of the activity developed and many of the other types of intelligence, such as:

Spatial intelligence: good with pictures
Body/movement intelligence: good with activities
Interpersonal intelligence: good with communication
Intrapersonal intelligence: good with analyzing things
Naturalist intelligence: good with understanding natural world

Tools and programs:

A camera , optionally a tripod, a projector and a PC, the Photosynth program and account for it, the microsoft image composite editor program, Bing maps, a microsoft open ID account. (we can also use a smartboard if there is any in our school).

Duration: 4 hours

1 hour for scheduling and work with bing maps, 2 hours for photo shooting the sites and 1 hour to work on with the programs and the collaborarive text writing.

Targets

For Students to:

Practice on sites describing and feelings expression.
Work collaborativelly.
Practice on photo shooting on specific angles and target.
Get familiar with Photosynth and image composite editor programs.

For teacher to:

Stimulate pupils to create their own panoramas
Try a new approach in a not so popular activity ( write an essey).
Change the daily routine in the classroom.
Demonstrate two new easy programs and thus to enrich his toolbelt with new tools.
To give an opportunity to pupils to get closer through a collaborative activity.
To help the students to develop different types of intelligence according to the theory of multiple intelligences.

Development pathway

Step 1: Using the PC and logged in the bing maps site , and displaying neighborhood map on the whiteboard with projector help, pupils were asked to locate and point their favorite spots on it. Afterwards printed maps with those spots were spread to pupils so as the whole activity to serve also as an orientation activity for a geography topic making it that way a multilateral activity.

Step 2: With a simple photo camera the whole class visited the predefined spots and shot them in different angles (75 degrees , 50 degrees and 25 degrees in a vertical line and 360 degrees in the horizontal line) so as 24 pictures to be shot tottaly.

Step 3: On returning in the classroom pupils inserted and work with their photos in photosynth and microsoft image composite editor so as to create 2 different types of panoramas for their spot.

Step 4: When the panoramas were finished, 5 collaborative places descriptions and their emotional impact on pupils were written by the students.

Step 5: All the panoramas and the sites descriptions have to be uploaded on classroom website and to follow a brainstorming about other uses of the Photosynth and the Bing maps and a feedback about the whole activity.

1.Our School

point 1 on the map

Αυτό είναι το σχολείο μας. Είναι μεγάλο, όμορφα διακοσμημένο, με μεγάλη αυλή. Έχει 17 τάξεις και 24 αίθουσες. Επίσης φιλοξενεί 365 παιδιά. Στο σχολείο υπάρχουν πολλά βραβεία αθλητικά και εκπαιδευτικά. Επίσης έχει μεγάλη αυλή μα δυστυχώς δεν έχει πολύ πράσινο. Διαλέξαμε να φωτογραφίσουμε το σχολείο γιατί θέλαμε έναν χώρο στον οποίο είμαστε πολύ συχνά.

Photosynth panorama

Image composite editor panorama

Our Neighborhood on the map

Points on the map

1. Our Scool

2. Oak square

3. Aquaduct

4. "Parmenion" Park

5. "Tumpa" Park

Evaluation

Students

Self evaluation as each student has to describe his own part in the activity.
Team evaluation as each team has to describe the work proccess and the level of collaboration.
Peer evaluation as each team make comments at all other teams work.

Teacher

A rubric to measure :

The level of each student involvement in the activity
The level of team collaboration.
The quality of each team work

Panoramas

Esseys

2. The Oak Square

point 2 on the map

Η βελανιδιά βρίσκεται στη μέση μιας πλατείας. Είναι ένα σιδερένιο δέντρο με γύρω γύρω λουλούδια. Χτίστηκε το 2009-2010 και συμβολίζει πόσο χρονών είναι η Αλεξανδρούπολη. Πηγαίνουν τουρίστες και τη βλέπουν και τώρα χρησιμοποιείται σαν αξιοθέατο. Είναι απέναντι από το παλιό παλιό νοσοκομείο το οποίο κι αυτό είναι αξιοθέατο που τώρα ανακαινίζεται. Α! είναι και κοντά στο στρατιωτικό πρατήριο. Μου αρέσει επειδή στολίζει την Αλεξανδρούπολη.

3. Aquaduct

point 3 on the map

Το υδραγωγείο μου αρέσει διότι είναι ένα παλιό και όμορφο μέρος, καθώς έχει και μια παιδική χαρά που μπορούν να παίζουν τα παιδιά. Έχει πράσινο και ωραία μέρη γύρω του. Είναι ένα όμορφο μέρος αλλά οι άνθρωποι το έχουν ξεχάσει και δυστυχώς δεν το φροντίζει κανένας.

4. The "Parmenion" Park

point 4 on the map

Ο Παρμενίων ήταν ένα στρατόπεδο και περίπου το 1999 έγινε ερείπια . Μετά από λίγο το 2000 έγινε κι ένα πάρκο λίγο πιο μπροστά. Τα ερείπια συνεχίζουν να είναι εκεί. Πολλά παιδιά πηγαίνουν εκεί και μπαίνουν μέσα στα διαλυμένα κτίρια. Διαλέξαμε αυτό το μέρος γιατί έχει ωραία δέντρα κι ένα μικρό πάρκο. Επίσης έχει πλάκα να κάθεσαι εκεί την νύχτα και να λες τρομαχτικές ιστορίες. Είναι το καλύτερο πάρκο.

5. The "Tumba" Park

point 5 on the map

Η Τούμπα είναι ένα πάρκο που βρίσκεται στην οδό Ρίλα στην Αλεξανδρούπολη. Δεν είναι πολύ μικρό ούτε πολύ μεγάλο. Το πάρκο περιέχει : παιδική χαρά με όλα τα είδη όπως κούνια , τραμπάλα , τσουλήθρα και αράχνη . Πολλά παιδιά παίζουν στην τούμπα ολημερίς. Το πάρκο μας αρέσει γιατί περνάμε ωραίες στιγμές με τους φίλους μας όμως όταν βρέχει έχει πολλές λάσπες .

Greek Language

Activities

Sort Description

In this unit and in the chapter with the title "My Neighborhood", pupils prepare panoramas with their favorite neighborhood sites, explain and describe why they choosed them.

This is a group/collaborative activity on writing development activity.

Although it is obvious that aims to develop linguistic and verbal intelligence, the nature of the activity developed and many of the other types of intelligence, such as:

Tools and programs:

A camera , optionally a tripod, a projector and a PC, the Photosynth program and account for it, the microsoft image composite editor program, Bing maps, a microsoft open ID account. (we can also use a smartboard if there is any in our school).

Duration: 4 hours

1 hour for scheduling and work with bing maps, 2 hours for photo shooting the sites and 1 hour to work on with the programs and the collaborarive text writing.

Targets

For Students to:

Practice on sites describing and feelings expression.

Work collaborativelly.

Practice on photo shooting on specific angles and target.

Get familiar with Photosynth and image composite editor programs.

For teacher to:

Stimulate pupils to create their own panoramas

Try a new approach in a not so popular activity ( write an essey).

Change the daily routine in the classroom.

Demonstrate two new easy programs and thus to enrich his toolbelt with new tools.

To give an opportunity to pupils to get closer through a collaborative activity.

To help the students to develop different types of intelligence according to the theory of multiple intelligences.