about our project

KNOWING ME IS KNOWING YOU

About Project

About Registered Schools

ACTIVITIES

Not-to-Be-Missed Places

My Souvenir

Famous Stories Travel around the World

Customs and Traditions

Celebrations

ABOUT OUR PROJECT

Pupil age group: 5-18

This project has an open and free enrollment and you may join us any time. Contact us!

Our web-based collaborative project is also open to children with special needs. Click here to visit Catherine's web page where you can read her wonderful contribution about New Jersey, USA.

Guidelines

Knowing Me Is Knowing You is a safe web-based classroom project dedicated to cultural diversity and global collaboration.
Its aim is to increase our pupils' cultural awareness and develop their curiosity towards other cultures and their own. It also aims to enable our pupils to practise and enhance their language skills for authentic communication with a global audience.

Besides, the goal is to give our pupils a reason to try to write well, a purpose for interacting via the Internet and a showcase for their finished work.
The cross-curricular approach is also encouraged by the activities provided by this project, as pupils have the opportunity to use their knowledge of geography, history, foreign languages, IT etc.

To sum up, the Knowing Me Is Knowing You project focuses on cultural awareness and intercultural learning in order to promote international understanding and world peace.
It encourages and motivates the pupils worldwide (assisted by their teachers) not only to learn about each other using the opportunities offered by the new technologies, but also to develop their sense of awareness of being part of a dynamic, global community.
I believe that, especially in these times it is very important for children, who are our future, to live and learn about each other as neighbours in a worldwide community.

The "Knowing Me Is Knowing You" project is open to everyone and anyone who would like to participate in and we would be very excited to add you to our growing list of friends. Contact us!

Here are some guidelines for each activity. Click on the links below to find out more information.

Not-to-Be-Missed Places	Customs and Traditions	Celebrations
My Souvenir	Our Mascot's Trip	Famous Stories Travel around the World
National Symbols

Not-to-Be-Missed Places

Objectives:
- to give our pupils the opportunity to gget to know themselves better and to discover their neighbours and the worldwide community
- to enrich our pupils' cultural knnowledge and develop their curiosity towards other cultures and their own.

Our pupils would like to collaborate with their peers from different countries and exchange information about their country, town and school.
You are invited to send us relevant information about your school (1-2 paragraphs and a photo) and town ( + 1 photo of a sight).

You are also invited to interview your parents/grandparents/teachers and find out 3-4 relevant facts about your countries.
All the photos and information will be published on our web page.

Click here to see some examples

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Objectives:
This activity is meant to create a mini-environment representative of different world cultures and help our pupils find out information about famous places and monuments.
It also aims to enrich our pupils' cultural knowledge and develop their curiosity towards other cultures and their own.

Our pupils invite their peers to join the project called "My Souvenir".
Your task is to take a photo of your souvenir and write about it. (What does it represent? Who does it belong to? Where does it come from? When did you/your family/your friends get it? + any other information)
Send us all the photos and texts and we will publish them on our web page.

Click here to see some examples

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Objectives:
This project will give our pupils the opportunity to get to know their own culture better as well as the culture of other countries and find differences and similarities among cultures. Thus they will acquire a deeper understanding of their national and cultural identity

Our pupils are interested in finding out information about customs and traditions during the year in different countries.

Choose the most relevant winter, spring, summer and autumn customs and traditions in your country and write 1-2 paragraphs about each of them. Send us your texts and 4-5 "real" photos or your artworks related to those customs and traditions.

All the texts and photos/artworks will be published on our web page.

Click here to see some examples

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Our Mascot's Trip

Objectives
- to give our pupils the opportunity to compare and find differences and similarities among schools in different countries and to open their school to the worldwide community.

A picture of our mascot is emailed to a class for a week. Print the mascot and make it larger, then stick it on cardboard, cut it out and hang it in your class.
At the end of the week send us some information (and photos) about the activities our mascot took part in. Please choose only those pieces of information and photos which are relevant to your school/town/country.

We would also like to find out information about the spare time activities which are popular with kids in your area. That is why we would appreciate if one of your pupils could host our mascot at his/her home at the weekend.
Everything will be published on our web page.

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Celebrations

Objectives:
This project will give your pupils the opportunity to get to know their country's celebrations (national, religious and others) better as well as the ones specific to other communities worldwide and find differences and similarities among them. Thus they will enrich their cultural knowledge and develop their curiosity towards other cultures and their own.

Our pupils would like to collaborate with their peers from different countries and find out information about celebrations (national, religious and others). We invite you to send us relevant information about 3 celebrations (1 paragraph for each one) which are specific to your country/community. We would very much appreciate if you could also send photos or your pupils' drawings related to the celebrations in your country (1 photo/artwork for each celebration). We'll publish them on the project web page as soon as we get them.

Click here to see some examples

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Famous Stories Travel around the World

Objectives:

This project will give our pupils the opportunity to get to know their own literature better as well as the literature of other countries. It will also give them a reason to try to write well and a showcase for their finished work

This project gives our pupils the opportunity to read, summarize and illustrate (drawings/artworks) stories for children written by famous writers from their countries.

Our pupils would like to collect stories for children written by famous writers from different countries.

We invite your pupils to choose a story for children written by a well-known writer from your country, read it carefully, summarize it (in no more than 400 words) and illustrate it ( 2 drawings/artworks made by your pupils).

We would very much appreciate if you could send us your pupils' summaries and scanned drawings/artworks. We'll publish them on the project web page as soon as we get them.

Stories are a feature of all cultures and have a universal appeal.

By contributing our students will enrich the world cultural heritage.

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National Symbols

Objectives:

We all know that a flag and a national coat of arm include colours, symbols and mottos that reflect a nation's history, geography and even the spirit of its people.

This project will give your pupils the opportunity to get to know their history better as well as the history of other countries. Thus they will acquire a deeper understanding of their national identity.

Learning the history of the flag and the coat of arm will help instill in pupils respect for their national symbols.

Our pupils would like to collaborate with children from different countries and collect information about their countries' flags and national coats of arms.

Here are some guidelines that can help you make the most of this activity.

1. Explain the significance of the coat of arms and flag's symbols and colours.

2. Have the flag and coat of arms changed throughout your country's history?

3. What do the current flag and coat of arms reflect about your nation?

4. Are any of the facts you learned about your country reflected in its flag and coat of arms? Have you included them in your description?

5. Did you learn anything new about your country from its flag and coat of arms?

We invite you to send us information about your country's flag and coat of arm. We would very much appreciate if you could attach a picture/drawing (.jpg) of your country's flag and coat of arm.

All the pictures and information will be published on our project web site.

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Coming up soon

National Symbols

Our Global Calendar

Our Mascot's Trip

Coming up soon

National Symbols

Our Global Calendar

Our Mascot's Trip

Last updated: 03/05/2008

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