Practical Activities    

Here you will find activities that have been created by the Portuguese EDMR group. They are mainly for foreign language or mother tongue learning, and use selected websites from the EDM Reporter collection:

Activity 1: Re-Writing Stories On-Line

Activity 2: Use This WebQuest! 1. The Brothers Grimm

Activity 3: Use This WebQuest! 2. Searching for La Fontaine

Activity 4: Use This WebQuest! 3. The Jersey Project

Activity 5: What is a WebQuest?

Activity 6: Co-operative Blog Writing and On-Line Editing

Activity 7: Visual Stories: Creating an On-Line Animal Story Reading Circle

Activity 8: Visual Stories: Create a Story from a Picture

Activity 9: Exploring the Content of a Website

Activity 1: Re-Writing Stories On-Line   

Activity 2: Use This WebQuest! 1. The Brothers Grimm   

Go to the web site: www.nonio.eses.pt/eusei (click here for instructions)

Activity 3: Use This WebQuest! 2. Searching for La Fontaine   

Practical Activity:These include finding a particular website on the Internet and becoming familiar with how children's literature websites are usually organized: links on the page; searching for a particular link; answering specific content questions; filling in gaps with information retrieved from a particular page; reading a story online; finding the moral of a story and commenting on it; finding synonyms; explaining words and phrases in your own way.

Para realizares esta actividade terás de te localizar no site do nónio na Internet. Para tal acontecer digita na barra de endereços: http://www.nonio.eses.pt/eusei/

Depois de teres realizado o passo anterior segue as indicações dadas e tenta responder às questões que te são colocadas.

1. Procura hiperligação do site EU SEI!.
2. Localiza-te no teu ciclo de escolaridade.
3. No lado esquerdo da página, selecciona o link ligações.
4. Selecciona a disciplina de Língua Portuguesa.
5. Dirige-te ao ERA UMA VEZ.
6. Quais os autores que te são apresentados?

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7. Entra no mundo das fábulas e procura as de LA FONTAINE..
8. Em qual das fábulas se encontra a seguinte moral: “A tua liberdade não tem preço.”

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9. Lê o conto: “ As lebres e as rãs” e regista o significado das palavras destacadas.

10. Transcreve e explica a moral da fábula.

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11. Lê a fábula “O Rato do Campo e o Rato da Cidade” e regista o significado das palavras destacadas.

Activity 4: Use This WebQuest! 3. The Jersey Project   

Go to: www.projectodejersey.com

2.      On your left there is a list. Click on "tales".

• You will see a list of tales/fables;
• Click on the tale or fable that has been given to you;
• Read the tale/fable twice;
• Nowthat you have read the tale/fable and have understood it fill in the table.

3.      Your tale/fable is:

- Up-dated	̈	- Pleasant	̈	- Frightening	̈
- Realistic	̈	- Nice	̈	- Unpleasant	̈
- Unterstanding	̈	- Mysterious	̈	- Horrible	̈
- Touching	̈	- Difficult	̈	- Strange	̈
- Out-of-date	̈	- Confusing	̈	- Boring	̈

4.      Save your tale/fable in your pen drive so that you can print it out.
5.      Your tale/fable is probably rather old fashioned and out-of-date. Be creative and rewrite the tale/fable so that it is up-to-date.

Activity 5: What is a WebQuest?   

Practical Activity

1. Go to wwwm.iescuelayelmundo.org/ and - follow the links to the webquest library (biblioteca). Then select educacionenvalores.org/biblioteca.php3 and follow the link to the British flag.
2. Read the story 'Peter, a different boy' webquest on line (available at: www.educacionenvalores.org/article.php3?id_article=1500) and do the webquest.
3. The task is for groups to make a visual diagram of how the webquest was organized: the aims of the questions, the approach to the topic, the tasks set to students, the evaluation foreseen and the resources prepared.
4. Select a website with stories online from the EDM Reporter Website Collection. Find a story or a collection of stories. One suggestion is the website Caracol do Ouvido at www.caracol.imaginario.com
5. Concentrate on the stories with foxes and try to create a webquest by following these steps:

1. What questions should be asked? Are there central conflicts, main topic areas...
2. What is the task that the students have to undertake? Is it engaging? One task or multiple tasks?
3. List the steps that students need to take.
4. What resources need to be prepared: websites, articles, pictures, books, stories, music, etc?
5. What are students going to do with the knowledge? How will you assess their knowledge?
6. How will you present this webquest to students graphically?

Activity 6: Co-operative Blog Writing and On-Line Editing   

For this activity you will need to either invite a children's literature author to start a short story, or use the beginning of a story from a website. This story can then be completed by your students in class. You can then select the best stories to be collectively revised/improved by groups of students and published online. Other students might like to illustrate them. Thus begins a joint collaborative process between writers and illustrators. When completed, the stories can be collected on a blog.

Practical Activity:
Start a short story from any website/ or invite children's author to start a story.
Students complete the story individually.
Stories are read and the class chooses the 4 best.
These 4 are collectively improved by groups of students.
The groups then edit the stories online (editing Software such as Publisher can be used) on the school webpage.
The stories are put online with an invitation to other students to illustrate them.
The story writers and illustrators have to come together to collaboratively produce a new version of the story.
A class BLOG is created.
This version is published online again in a BLOG and students from the school are invited to comment.

Activity 7: Visual Stories: Creating an On-Line Animal Story Reading Circle   

Practical Activity:

Conditions for Particiation:

Children should have had at least 3 years foreign language teaching prior to joining the reading circle, or have obtained a B1 level (European Framework).
Teachers from different countries or from the same school agree on selecting three to six animal stories online according to programme contents, needs, etc.
Teachers create an Animal Story Forum where students will write about the stories. For example as an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) activity:

1. Ask students to think for 1 minute about their country/region and let animal images flow. Ask them to select the animal(s) they most identify with and be prepared to explain why.*
2. Show students images of animals from the selected stories (websites) and ask them to imagine what the stories might be like.
3. Students are invited to read the stories. Below is an example for EFL (English as a Foreign Language):
   
   1. www.britishcouncil.org/pl/kids-stories-music.htm Voyage of the Animal Orchestra (you can listen to and read the story + there are activities + print story flashcards for vocabulary)
   2. www.britishcouncil.org/pl/kids-stories-nessie-1.htm Nessie's Grotto
   3. www.britishcouncil.org/pl/kids-stories-secret-zoo.htm Sam's Secret Zoo
   4. kleine-eule.osttirol.net The Little Owl
4. You can develop pedagogical approaches for selected websites (as a collaborative task for teachers in different countries or same school). For example:
   
   1. Make a list of the animals in each story.
   2. Group the stories in a meaningful way. Tell the others how and why you grouped the stories the way you did.
   3. Find similarities in the six animal stories
   4. Find differences in the six animal stories
   5. Are animals used to represent something typical? Do they symbolise something?
   6. What is the general theme of each story and how does it relate to the animal(s) represented in it?
5. Choose your favourite animal story and recommend it, in written form, to the Animal Story Forum, so that it can be read by children in other countries.

Activity 8: Visual Stories: Create a Story from a Picture   

Practical Activity:

Ask students to browse through selected websites, for example, BIB 2005 Award-winning works at www.bib-slovakia.sk or www.angela-lago.com.br for Animated Pictures. Another good example is: www.emilygravett.com Emily Gravett's website.

Next, they choose their favourite picture/series of pictures and explain why they like it/them.

Next, they create a story to go with the selected pictures, using as many multimedia resources as they wish.

The stories can then be presented in class and saved onto a CD-rom.

Alternatively, you might like to select one picture/series of pictures which all students can use to create their own stories.

Activity 9: Exploring the Content of a Website   

Practical Activity: for 10 and 11 year olds.

1. Exploring the site: nonio.eses.pt/eusei

For students who find it difficult to concentrate on reading and writing, there are games..