Poverty and exclusion

Project

Age Group: Junior High School Students aged 13-14

Language: english
Associated skills: ICT. English

Project goals:
I) At the end of the project students should be able to
• Understand the concept of poverty and how this concept expands in many
aspects of our lives
• Understand the concept of social exclusion
• Satisfactorily approach the meanings mentioned in the beginning
II) Fully understand the importance of education towards the weakening of
factors leading to poverty and social exclusion
III) Open school to local society
IV) Development of critical skills, communicating skills as well as being more
active citizens

Εργαλεία που θα χρησιμοποιηθούν:

• Cameras
• e-tools: wikispace, google talk or Skype, blog – picasa, flickr group, movie
maker, youtube, power point, twinspace, twinblog

Activity:
 Announcement of the project in the e-twinning environment
 Partner meetings using google talk, determining objectives as well as
procedure and project scedule
 Posting photo(1) in google wave (or wiki) with the ability to accept
comments from partner schools, posting of the final text in our twinblog
and school blog in order to make the material accessible to everyone

(1)
 Small groups of students accompanied by teachers, touring the
neighborhoods, taking pictures and discussing with locals
 Creation of a flickr group in order to publish project highlights from
both schools
 Same procedure with the next photo (2)
 (2)

 Same procedure with the next photos (3), (4) και (5)

(3)

(4) (5)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23220271@N07/4551581273/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23186006@N04/4678640491/
  View and discuss the video: poverty tells many stories :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=pSRMeiLljnw&feature=player_embedded
 Read and discuss the story of Denise:
http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/denise-story.pdf , children are
asked to discuss real facts from their lives relating to social
exclusion, reasons and causes and record their personal testimonies
on a table
 Summary of conclusions - Καταγραφή αυτών σε ένα wall
 Same procedure with next photo (6)

(6)
 Conclusion emphasizing project goals I) and II)
 Students find songs related to our project and post them along with our
photos in blogs. A video will be made to summarize the whole project
from the beginning to the end with picasa or movie maker
 Posting of the above video in a relevant channel (European or Greek
School Network)
 Sign in existing environments official agencies to track new information and
development
 Exchange of commemorative photos - greetings

Sincerely yours,

Assimina Lambrakou
1st Gym of Zefyri, Attiki, Greece