Our project

LAPBOOK AND FILE FOLDER GAMES PROJECT 

TITLE: TRAVEL AND MARVEL 

Short description: 

In this project we’ll use lapbooks and file folder games to teach, revise and enhance English Vocabulary and grammar as a Foreign Language Area to our students. 

  

Subjects: 

Art, Cross Curricular, Foreign Languages, History of Culture, Language and Literature, Primary School Subjects 

Communication language(s) 

English. 

What is the age range of the pupils of a potential partner for a project? 

10-12 

How many pupils altogether are going to participate in the project? 

72 pupils 

Subject areas 

Art, Cross Curricular, Environmental education, Health studies, Informatics/ICT, Natural Sciences, Primary School Subjects, Foreign Languages, Language and Literature, Social sciences (history-geography). 

Tools to be used 

E-mail, Shared blog (powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Video conference . 

Aims: 

- Learn to create their own learning/teaching material in the FL; mini books, graphs, graphic organizers etc to create the lapbooks and file folder games. 

- Improve our knowledge of the foreign language. 

- Foster creativity and develop art and crafts skills. 

- Establish friendship links with foreign students. 

- Use IT tools such as presentations, videoconferences, youtube videos or blog posting to develop the project. 

- Value the use of IT as a communication tool. 

- To encourage students to develop their creativity using the English language. 

- To raise children’s interest in foreign languages through arts and crafts. 

-To develop cooperation among students. 

- To develop finger dexterity. 

- To improve handwriting. 

-To improve pupils’ abilities to look for information to create lapbooks and file folder games. 

- To create a keepsake for each student 

- To help dyslexic students to be involved and to learn  

- To help our pupils use English language in a creative way. 

- To have fun. 

- To create a real need to communicate in and out of the classroom borders. 

- To help students become independent learners. 

- To value each others work. 

- To express artistically. 

- To add an element of mystery and adventure for young learners. 

Work process: 

-Planning: 

1. First contact. 

2. Opening a shared blog and designing the main activities. 

3. Schedule of the project. 

4. Choosing the topics. 

5. Creating lapbooks. 

6. Creating file folder games 

7. Videos or/and photos of the process and final results. 

8.  Conclusions. 

Both teachers involved in the project are in touch by email and skype in order to design the activities. 

We keep a shared blog to show each other’s work and progress. 

We have designed some activities, although we’ll be free to change what we consider should be changed during the process. 

We’ll be creating lapbooks and file folder games in order to teach the vocabulary, the grammar and the SCA of the FLA. 

The students involved in this project belong to 5th and 6th grades. 

They will learn enough about every topic before they can finish the lapbook. 

When they master the creation of lapbooks, they will be able to apply what they have learnt to create a file folder game for other students to learn. 

Students will write some of their opinions and feelings in the blog. For this, they will use English language, always considering the competence of the students in the foreign language and using the project as a way to improve it and motivate them. 

Expected results: 

We expect the students to learn English in a creative and motivating way. 

We want students to be able to create, organise and display their own learning/teaching material to be used by them and others. 

Students will be aware that the knowledge of a foreign language brings you the opportunity to know other countries, other people and truly communicate with them and learn from them. 

We also expect that students get more motivated in their school tasks and be more creative in their daily life. 

This project will improve their arts and crafts skills.