This is the list of the learning objects aiming to help teachers prepare lessons of citizenship and civics. The objects may be also used when teaching other school subjects, in a cross-curricular manner, such as language(s), mathematics, social sciences, geography and history.
A WebQuest is an activity in which pupils look for information on the Web. The objective for pupils is to find out about a particular subject and to do some tasks using the information they have gathered. The Webquests below were designed by some of the myEUROPE teachers. They incorporated...
Michel Neroucheff has been a primary teacher in Jette, one of the 19 communes of Brussels. He has dedicated his entire professional life to ICT in education and he is still very fond of using new technologies in the classroom, as a way to improve both teaching and learning. He develops...
Maria Teresa Asprella teaches at Liceo Ginnasio Matera in Italy. She is in charge of MOL, the Matera’s Online Newspaper, a project aiming to enable students with different cultural backgrounds to share information on a number of subjects.
Tea Byholm, a teacher of English at Suutarila Comprehensive School Upper Stage (Suutarilan yläasteen koulu), describes the experience of her own school in running international projects. She highlights the ICT-based collaborative projects, which may help develop European dimension...
Magdalena Bobek teaches foreign languages at Osnovna šola Pivka, in Slovenia. In this article she shares some ideas on how ICT can improve and enhance both teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools.
Maidu Varik, teacher of civics in Kuressaare Gymnasium, Estonia, tells us how the digital learning materials are being used and combined with traditional teaching methods in his country. His main focuses are social sciences, history and civics.
Odile Pouchol teaches English in Grenoble, France. She has been using information communication technologies to teach cultural values. She argues that ICT in teaching also helps raising European awareness.
Cristian Brinza teaches English as a foreign language in Iasi, Romania. He is a member of the myEUROPE advisory group and he has been involved in the design of the learning objects, which are published on our website. In this article he describes his experience about integrating...
This article sums up the benefits of e-learning in lessons of law at vocational schools for economy and management. It is based on the successful experience from Hubertus-Schwartz-Berufskollegs school in Soest, Germany.
This article is intended to be a report on a project called Mosaic and to encourage and give some hints to other colleagues who would like to develop their students’ critical thinking skills and who would like to spice their collaborative project work with some new exciting...
In 2003 the Education Division sought to sustain the implementation of the Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights programme of the Council of Europe through the appointment of an Education Officer for Democracy and Values Education within the Department of Student...
myEUROPE has recently organised two training sessions on designing learning objects focusing on European citizenship. 40 teachers from all corners of Europe were invited to come to Brussels to learn more about learning objects (LOs) and how they can support teaching and learning...
Janja Jakončič Faganel teaches in Slovenia. She is a member of the advisory group. In her country she was a member of a piloting team dealing with learning object repository and ways of embedding certain information within these objects.
Viljenka Šavli teaches at Solkan Primary School in Slovenia. She has been one of the first teachers in Europe and probably in the world who integrated ICT into the teaching, since the beginning of the Internet. In this article she looks back to what she has achieved over the past...
Cet article présente l’utilisation des TICE et tout particulièrement des potentialités de l’outil WIKI dans le cadre d’un projet coopératif européen entre un lycée suisse de Lausanne et un lycée français de...
Together with the euro, the flag, the anthem, and the motto, 9 May is a European symbol and also an opportunity to teach and learn more about Europe. On 11 May 2005, 18 schools from 13 countries discussed about the European Union, its past and future with five members of the European...
Susanne Pratscher, a myEUROPE teacher from Austria, registered her school with our project in 2000. Since then she has shared many examples of teaching with ICT, especially in the field of teaching foreign languages. This article describes an experience of more 25 years dedicated...
This year, in June, the myEUROPE network welcomed the first school from Greenland. Its name is Edvard Kruse-p Atarfia and it was registered with myEUROPE by Kunuunnguaq Fleischer, the leader of all the schools located in the municipality of Uummannaq. He tells us more about his homeland...
Georgiana Munteanu teaches at School No. 2 Galati, in Romania and she is in charge of the European projects her school runs. In this article she points out that Information Communication Technologies (ICT) make possible international collaboration and facilitate communication between...
Irene de Angelis-Curtis and her students from Liceo Scientifico "Pellecchia" Cassino, in Italy share some of their classroom projects with us. The projects were aimed to get to know the local cultural heritage better and involved several school subjects such as history, ICT, culture...
Netd@ys is an annual celebration of the use of new media (Internet, multimedia, videoconference or new audio-visual facilities) in the areas of education and culture. It encourages linking and partnerships between educational and cultural organisations and companies in both the public...
This article describes an interesting project aimed at comparing food stored in the students' fridges at home. The project involves schools from five European countries. Joelito Allard, the project coordinator, reports on the project and its achievements. The article is available...
Susanne Pratscher, the Austrian member of the advisory board is one of the pioneers in the field of integrating ICT into the daily teaching. One of her solutions of bridging traditional and modern pedagogies is implementing Web-based classroom projects. In this article Susanne tells...
Last year, Nada Kadlecova, a teacher from the Czech Republic, discovered the ICT and its benefits. This happened during Spring Day in Europe 2003-2004 when she involved her classes in the Spotlight activities. This is her ICT story.
This is a mini Web-based classroom project which was running under Together in Europe, a Spring Day activity aiming at matching schools in pairs. The project was carried out by pupils of Class 7a in Hindsholmskolen School in Dalby, Kerteminde, Denmark and pupils of Class 6 in Nareg...
IES PERDOURO is a myEUROPE school located in Burela, Lugo, Spain. Many teachers from this school are familiar with the Web-based tools and since 2001 they have introduced these tools to the students. Ana Robles, the school headmistress, tells us how the use of these tools has improved...
'Together in Europe' activity proved to be one of the most successful Web-based solutions to encourage schools to collaborate with counterparts in Europe. At Engure Secondary School, in Latvia, students experienced collaboration with teachers and students from abroad through the...
“Summer is winding down and so is our holiday. The school session has started and we are looking forward to facing the challenges of the forthcoming school year. We do hope to be as hardworking and successful as we were in the past school year when we had a lot of achievements...
Two schools, one from Slovenia and one from Austria decided to become sisters, adopting the model of Freinet pedagogy. This model is still used today by far away from each other classes to exchange cultural packages mainly for learning languages, geography and history. The modern...
Teachers and pupils in Belarus went back to school on September 1, when in our neighbouring countries situation was very anxious and dangerous. Russian teachers and pupils were under a terrorist attack.
A group of students from Riihenmäki Comprehensive School, Mäntsälä, in Finland invite you to join a project whose aim is to write an on-line book about the daily life in school.
Two schools, one from Germany and one from Malta, joined to implement together a twinning project under ‘Together in Europe’, a Spring Day in Europe activity. The main goal of the project was to learn more about each other’s culture.
Ulla Persson and Barbro Jonsson teach at Östra gymnasiet Umeå, in Sweden. For a couple of years their school and school partners from Denmark and Latvia worked on a project focusing on energy. Its name is "Energy around the Baltic Sea" and it aimed to teach students how...
This guide is intended to help teachers integrate energy and climate protection topics into their teaching. The guide provides some background information and a set of suggestions on how to approach such topics in the classroom.
These didactical games address primary and secondary students. The games cover several thematic areas such as European integration, European citizenship, single currency, consumer protection, internal market, Europe in the world, EU Enlargement, European common cultural values, European...
Otilia Moldovan teaches English at “Ioan Bob” School, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In this article she describes an activity she and her colleagues organised during the “School Day” event, which took place on 30 November 2006. The activity was a competition and...
Did you know? Households in the EU are responsible for some 16% of the EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions, most of which comes from the production and use of energy!
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment has launched a communications programme to raise awareness about climate change and how everyone can play a part in combating it.
Mika Vanhanen, the coordinator of the ENO Programme, shares with us the latest news about a global campaign week on climate change, that took place between 15 and 21 January 2007.
Katalin Gardynik lives and teaches in Hatvan, Hungary. Together with her collegue, Ms Basa Ottóné and their students, they organised an art copetition which involved pieces of artwork from nine countries. The competition entries were exhibited in her home town.
Since “Europe” is part of the Austrian curriculum for the 18-year-olds, we tried to dedicate the best part of the summer term 2005 to a new approach to this sometimes rather controversial topic. A class of 18 students were split into three groups dealing with the following...
Diversity, human rights, democracy, human dignity, equality, justice, tolerance, solidarity and peace are at the heart of education for European citizenship and the real challenge for us, teachers, is to make these abstract concepts accessible to our pupils. Helping pupils to explore...
Valdone Verseckiene teaches in Lithuania, at Laurynas Ivinskis Gymnasium in Kursenai. In this article she explains how she integrated active citizenship into teaching and how some follow-up activities involving local community strengthened it.
During the last decade, the Internet has changed our life in many ways and especially the way that we communicate. Technologies like e-mail, discussion forums and chats are considered today almost out-of-date, while new and promising technologies like weblogs, wikis and podcasts...
Decide for Europe is a newly designed interactive role play where pupils learn how decisions are made and their impact on the life of European citizens.
Cet article est une brève réaction de professeur et de citoyen face à l’Europe que nous enseignons au quotidien dans nos classes d’histoire, de géographie, d’économie, d’éducation à la citoyenneté… C’est...
Isabel Fonseca teaches in Portugal. In this article she describes the challenges she faces while teaching European citizenship to students with different cultural backgrounds. She concludes that citizenship starts inside each one of us and it is based on social rules, tolerance and...
Katerina Bavorova is a teachers’ advisor at the EUN Office. She wrote this article to encourage and inspire teachers to design and use WebQuest in teaching.
Vera Brachetková teaches English at The High School of Chemistry Pardubice, in the Czech Republic. In this article she describes how she prepared her students to take part in a Spring Day chat. The chat took place on 2 March 2006 and had as guests Commissioner Figel’...
Noemi Lusi, the Italian member of the advisory board, states that using learning objects in teaching may increase students’ interests in European issues.
Democracy should be learned and lived on an everyday basis! 2005 is European Year of Citizenship through Education. The aim of the year is to popularise and put into practice the education for democratic citizenship policies and programmes developed within the Council of Europe.
Bozena Stepien from Poland reports on an event organised by a Comenius project team involving schools from her country, England, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
Constitutions are the backbone of a nation, stating the main rules and witnessing what the fundamental lines to be understood, accepted, put into practice must be. It is frequently looked at with a lot of respect, but not with similar awareness.
What is the Eurodrawing project? To say it in a simple way, its aim is to have children from the EU to draw one big picture. A picture of a place they want to live in. The place is called Europe.
Over the past years, many researchers have been in favour of believing that the learning objects will be the next step needed in modern education, especially in distance learning, where computers play a major role.
This is the name of a project aiming to stimulate a dialogue between generations.
During one school year, pupils from Martin V. Elementary School in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, worked on building genealogic trees of their families with the help of experts from Atoutage Association...
Birgir Edwald, an Icelandic teacher, registered his school with our project in 2001. Since then, he, his colleagues and pupils took part in various myEUROPE activities. Now he changed school and as principal, he tells us about an interesting experience of applying a new pedagogy...
Would be possible to make a tour of Europe in seven days? According to a group of students from Hungary the answer is positive. Read their project report (in French).
This guide aims to help teachers to guide their pupils when carrying out the Green Week Competitions activities. It gives suggestions for which subjects should be involved and how to introduce the topic of climate change.
Dr Susanne Pratscher and two of her students from VBS-HAKIII Schoenborngasse, in Vienna, Austria carried out a Web project “A virtual tour through Europe”. The project was built on a particular connection Susanne had with the Spring teachers in 2003.
This is another Web-based classroom project, which was running under Together in Europe. The project was carried out by pupils of Class 6 in Nareg School, Nicosia, Cyprus, and 12-13 years old in IES El Calamot, Gava (Barcelona), Spain, between March and June 2004.
During Spring Day in Europe 2004, schools had the opportunity to take part in a special activity
which matched schools in pairs, one from the EU and one from a new member state or a candidate country, so they could work together on a topic. Some teachers who joined in tell us about...
Valdone Verseckiene teaches a UNESCO class at Laurynas Ivinskis Gymnasium, Kursenai, in Lithuania. The class consists of students aged 15-18 from different classes. They normally discuss UNESCO World Heritage issues, but this school year, after the Beslan tragedy, she and her students...
Basisschool De Regenboog is a primary school located in Ghent, Belgium.
Pierre Michiels teaches there and together with his 5th class, he organized a one-day activity dedicated to the European Day of Languages.
Dr Susanne Pratscher is a member of both myEUROPE and Spring Day advisory boards. She explains us the reasons of publishing a new yearbook at her school in Vienna, Austria. In addition to usual content referring to the day-to-day school life, the book includes some pages about international...
Education should not be limited to the classrooms, but should go beyond the borders of the school walls and touch the lives of people living on the other side of the world. ICT in the classroom has made the impossible, possible. Who would have thought thirty years ago that schools...
In Austrian schools it is a good tradition to take the students to foreign speaking countries on what it is called ‘intensive language weeks’. Dr Susanne Pratscher, a teacher at VBS-HAKIII Schoenborngasse, in Vienna, Austria tells us more about this project. She also...
Given the choice to pick 1-3 items for a time capsule to be opened in a thousand years, what would you choose to represent the way of life on the earth in the last decade of the 20th century?
Andreea Silter is a Romanian teacher and one of the first Spring Day in Europe prize-winners. She shares her achievements of the past school year and tells us how she plans to integrate new technologies in teaching about Europe this school year.
Vittoria Di Fabio is a teacher of English literature and civilisation and she tells us what happened to her when she went back to school at Liceo Plauto, in Rome, Italy.
Six myEUROPE teachers were invited to present our activities at the BECTA Netd@ys 2003 Conference which took place in Coventry, the UK, on November 21, this year. The theme of the conference was ‘Celebrating Cultural Diversity’. Noemi Lusi from Italy talked about Pretty...
