KA 2 – “Steps of Citizenship” ITALY - ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO CAMERANO Planning Grid

Target students Classes: IIA, IIB, IIC

Students aged 13

Time

25 hours

January – February –March 2015

Teachers involved Teachers of Italian, Geography, History, English

Product/output Realization of the map of the “ideal city” and video of the activitites.

COMPETENCES

To acquire and to interpet information

To research, gather and elaborate datas, information and concepts

To build presentations using both traditional instruments and ICT

To develop linguistic skills in English

Subjects involved Italian, Geography, History, English

Learning objectives Skills Contents Attitude/Behaviour

a) Using reading strategies to

analyze the content of a text

b) searching for information in

different texts

c) being able to interpret and to

compare landscapes and their

features

a) knowledge of one’s own territory

b) knowledge of different

landscapes’ features (rural,

urban….)

c) knowledge if different kinds of

maps

a) Curiosity

b) Cooperation

c) Creativity

Prerequisites 1) Orientation in one’s own

town

2) Orientation on a map

3) Creating symbols for a map

legend

1) knowledge of a topographic map

2) knowledge of what a map legend is

3) knowledge of the meaning of

“ideal”

1) Being able to cooperate

2) Accepting assignments

3) Respect

Teacher’s task

(and materials/tools used)

Students’ task

(and materials/tools used)

PHASE 1

(time: 2 h)

Place: classroom

Objectives:

Interpreting a written

document

Presentation of the project: name, teachers, subjects

involved and duration.

-Reading of the text: the students in circle are given

the photocopy of the passage “La città e la memoria.

Maurilia” ( “City and Memory – Maurilia”) from “Le

città invisibili” (“Invisible Cities”, chapter V) by Italo

Calvino (an Italian journalist and writer of short

stories and novels). The teacher reads the passage.

The teacher leads the comprehension of the text and

the comments about “Maurilia”, past and present. The

teacher leads a short discussion about the changes

that have taken place over the years in Camerano.

Students listen and read the text. They participate in

the discussion about the city described, focusing on

the differences between the past Maurilia and the

present Maurilia. They talk about their own town

and how it has changed over the years.

PHASE 2

(time: 2 h)

Place: classroom

Objectives: interpreting

iconographic sources

The teacher shows paintings of the “ideal city” on the

interactive whiteboard, pointing out the author, the

historic period and the place they are on display

today. The teacher leads a discussion about the

understanding of iconographic sources, trying to

make students think about the features

characterizing the cities of the past, through

questions.

Students observe the pictures and reflect on the

features about the cities represented (space,

background, foreground, types of buildings,

people..….).

Iconographic sources:

- “Città Ideale” , unknown author , 1480 -1490

(Urbino, National Gallery of Marche);

- “Veduta della Città Ideale” (“The Ideal City”,

Walters Art Museum of Baltimore);

- “Veduta di città ideale” (Berlin Gemaldegalerie)

PHASE 3

Time: 1 h

Place: classroom

Objectives:

- interpreting

photographs;

- comparing;

The teacher invites students to search for pictures

(internet, family pictures…) of their own town in the

present and in the past. The pictures are displayed on

the interactive whiteboard and students are asked to

compare them.

Students compare photos of their own town in the

past and in the present and focus on positive and

negative aspects both in the past and in the present.

PHASE 4

Time: 2h

Place: classroom

Objectives:

- To gather data

- To develop critical

thinking

GROUPWORK

The teacher creates the groups and hands out a

survey questionnaire about fashionable and

unfashionable places in Camerano (i.e. what’s the

place you like most for your free time? Which place

would you like to have in your town?...)

GROUPWORK

Each student fills in the questionnaire, explicating the

places for an ideal town, and discusses about it within

the group. Then each group hands out the survey

questionnaire to all the other classes of the institute

and results are illustrated through histograms.

PHASE 5

Time: 2 hours

Objectives: finding out and

comparing implicit and

explicit information

The teacher guides a discussion about the data

gathered.

Data gathering and results presentation using the

Interactive Whiteboard. Within each group students

share the data obtained by the class and propose new

places for the ideal town on the base of the survey

results.

PHASE 6 GROUPWORK Students, in group, create their own Ideal City

Time: 4h

Objectives:

- To use geographic

instruments and

language;

- orientation in space

The teacher shows students different kinds of maps

and makes them notice the differences. Then the

teacher gives each group a blank topographic map of

Camerano and asks students to fill it in with places

through the creation of a map legend.

indicating on the blank map, through the use of a map

legend planned by themselves, the outdoor and indoor

places thought in the previous phase.

PHASE 7

Time: 2h

Place: classroom

Objectives: presenting works

The teacher guides a discussion about the final

outputs.

Each group makes a presentation of their own work to

the other groups and to all the classes involved in the

project.

PHASE 8

Time: 10 h

Place: computer room

Objectives: creating a CD

The teacher coordinates the preparation of the CD Students create a CD using photographs and videos of

the implemented activities.

EVALUATION TEST

Self- evaluation , through a test, to highlight students motivation, their capacity to work in group and the

acquired knowledge.