| First stage: " I would describe you an idea that it is suggested by Italian WWF to the Italian schools:
it is called "An imaginary tour": this is a tour in the garden of the five senses: of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
We can build this virtual garden like web pages in which our students can put animals, plants of their countries (compatible between them!) etc." How is possible to draw this garden?
I suggest this hypothesis:
a) the gourmand's corner ( the taste!): in this corner we can find typical fruit trees for men but also birds, and little animals of our countries. Our students can find these plants and animals; exchange information and then a mixed group build web pages about this corner.
b) The fragrances' tunnel (the smell!): this corner is very difficult to represent because I don't know a plug-in for Internet for smell!!
Perhaps we can insert some photos of different students who smell flowers in the web pages that explain the features of this corner (like in the precedent point). Why tunnel? Because this corner is in a depression inn the ground, so the fragrances are stronger.
c) The flowerbed (the sight): here we can find a lot of flowers with your strong colours. I think it is important if our students will draw these flowers. Our students can find these plants, exchange information and then a mixed group builds web pages about this corner.
d) The strange plants (the touch): in this corner we can find plants that stimulate the touch like cactus.., or other typical plants with strange leaves. Our students will find these plants; with the scanner is possible take a picture of leaves or other thin parts ….. or they can take photos… they exchange information and then a mixed group builds web pages about this corner.
e) The singing corner (the hearing): we can find a little wood (a mix of our trees) in that many birds live and sing! I think it is possible find in our towns some short examples of birds' sing. We can build short wave files to insert in the web pages of this corner.
| Second stage: We can form five mixed group; every group prepare a part of garden.
Every school prepare a research and gather text, pictures, etc. about plants and animals of its country.
It is very very important that plants and animals have their names in English (if possible for us and for Toru's students), in Italian, in Japanese and their scientific names in Latin!!
Then every group can prepare web pages with the exchange of texts, pictures ecc. 2.The main page could have these links: the five parts of garden; three glossaries of plants and animals; the three schools. In this parts students could exchange their opinions about natural questions, environmental problems ecc. |
