Our aim in partnership will be to combine art and creativity together with getting to know the homeland, i.e. its sights and special landscapes, as well as artistic works by local artists. This content will then be found in a virtual museum. For this purpose, a guide is produced in the mother tongue and foreign language lessons. This virtual museum is then used like a library in all schools. The pupils validate their knowledge with the help of the museum and apply it in the subject of social studies. The students can then consolidate and review their acquired knowledge using the games they have created themselves. In the field of art, the museum may also be used to acquire knowledge about the artists presented and their works modeled or presented in a modern way using a variety of artistic techniques and methods. A wide variety of materials are used. The resulting works will then be shown in the gallery under eTwinning. Our virtual museum will grow gradually. Before each teaching activity, a new sight or special landscape as well as the regional artist and then one of his works are selected at the schools. The students now develop the guide and learn how to present this exhibit creatively during the learning activity. This includes all forms of artistic representation such as drama, pantomime, power points but also dance, singing and others. In addition, during these activities the presented sights and landscapes are visited on site and various knowledge games are produced in workshops and works by the respective artist are artistically developed. After each learning activity, the new exhibits can be found in the virtual museum, used in the lessons of the schools as described above, and the further exhibit developed. We have planned a total of 6 learning activities. So every school will be visited once and the above-mentioned activities will be carried out. At the end of our project we worked on and presented 6 sights or landscapes as well as an artist and 6 works. Our virtual museum then has a total of 36 exhibits and 36 artistic works. Otherwise there will be created two common games and a lot of other different games using in sozial study lessons to expand and stabilize the students' knowledges. The English language in a variety of European schools and cultures enriches learning in this way processes in every school. This is achieved through continuous and diverse activities in our company. Schools and communities that run for a period of two years. This project uses and teaches a variety of learning methods to learn language skills, as well as art, social science, and mother tongue. All of our activities will be as comprehensive as possible and we strive to work with teachers, students and theirs families and our local communities. There will be a variety of exciting and motivating activities will facilitate cross-fertilization of ideas and results. Intercultural learning and promotion of Heterogeneity will be the focus of our project. The multidisciplinary and global learning enables inclusion, the entire student body of each school as well between the partner schools. In particular socially disadvantaged or disabled students, children with special needs, refugee children and all other students become active through the bridges created during the project. In the project work the foreign language is used, which was learned during the exchange against predefined languages tasks, writing events or sending emails and also communicating with each other during the common workshops, including student activities and video conferencing. All teachers involved will contribute our broad experience and successful methods for short-term personnel training. In addition, teachers will benefit from the project by introducing new methods to their participating teachers throughout the year meet at the respective partner school in the workshops or after the teaching activities. They will be empowered to incorporate new teaching methods into their future lessons and integrate them into the existing school curricula.
In our project we linked art and creativity with sights and special landscapes in our hometowns. We have published the results of our excellent collaboration on a joint homepage at www.artitouterasmus.wixsite.com. Here you can find our virtual museum in which artists, student works, landscapes or sights from all of our partners (Spain, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) can be found. We have also published our meetings and their schedules. In addition, various games were made which were included in art lessons or English lessons. Our virtual museum is used by art teachers and foreign language teachers. Thus, special art techniques or ideas can lead to more creativity in the teaching process. During the 3-year project period, we visited all partner schools and carried out a variety of activities related to art and sightseeing. The focus was on intercultural learning and the use of the English language. Students slept in host families during their stays. Teachers were able to develop further in the area of art, particularly in techniques and methods, in the use of the English language during various tours of museums or sights, and in acquiring new knowledge while learning about the respective school systems and the use of new media. We can report that we carried out our project as planned, even though Corinna had to cancel meetings and students were not always allowed to travel with us. This was due to the changing regulations in the individual countries and in the individual phases of the corona pandemic. During the pandemic, especially in 2020 and 2021, we held various video conferences. Here the students presented artists or sights. They talked about themselves but also about special events. So only teachers visited the partner school in Prague and received further training. Slovakia was partly visited by students and teachers and only by teachers. All other meetings took place as scheduled. There were short training courses for teachers and student exchanges here.