A Collaborative Activity

Name: The History of our cities through their monuments

Aims: Students of each partner school work collaboratively to present the main historical landmarks of their town to their eTwinning partners.

Topic: Cross-curricular: ESL; History; Art; Geography.


Description: Students work in groups to select monuments, do some research and present the monuments using 2.0 tools.

Process: Students choose the monuments to present to their partners, do research, plan and create a multimedia presentation.

1.    Students decide which landmarks to present by brainstorming, offering, investigating, evaluating and comparing suggestions. Students motivate their choices. Why do you think these are  the most representative monument in your town?

2.    Teacher provides resources and students do some research, read, watch short videos and select texts, pictures and other documents in order to gather useful information and materials.


3.    Students collaborate to plan their presentation: they prepare outline and/or mindmaps, summarize, match pics and texts, modify, suggest solutions.

4.    Students use a tool that combines pics with voice to prepare their multimedia presentation: each of them will record their voices and add picture.

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5.    Students prepare quizzes in the form of multiple choice questions about the content of their presentation and share them with partners on a Padlet wall. All the questions are turned into an online quiz.
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6.    Students try the game and discuss their scores on a Padlet wall.

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