Collaboration
1.Collaborative book: in international teams, students create a phrase list (when each student adds a word) that will help them to describe and forecast, for example: humidity, change of rain etc. Next, students organise an online meeting (each group separately) where they create dialogues using these words and phrases and decide how to design their online book page. Students can also create a weather icon list with their explanations. There is a lot of information about the different symbols for weather forecasting. This activity helps them to read weather map symbols and to answer the questions:” What do weather symbols mean?”, “What is the symbol for snow (rain, wind etc.)?” After the meeting, each group will draft their page for the book and the ebook will be then created with the contributions from all groups. 2. Interview: in international teams, students prepare questions together that they would like to ask about the weather and climate in general. Then, every country organises a meeting with the weatherman or a specialist in this sphere in their country. If possible, students can also go and visit the meteorological centre in their city/region. It can be an online or onsite meeting where the students interview the weatherman on how to forecast the weather, why there is more/less rain in some places or why temperature rises. 3.Visit: If it is possible, the teachers can organise a visit to the meteorological service which is the close to the school. Students explore the following: What is meteorological service?, What do they do?, What is the difference between weather and climate? and learn more about weather forecasting, technology and methods. 4. Observation chart: Students create a daily weather observation chart. Each partner class observes the weather in their region and adds their information to the chart. They can also edit and make changes on it. Throughout one week (decided amongst the patterns), each country adds their information about the weather in their country/region/city and compare the different weather conditions according to the area they live and the different climates e.g. Mediterranean, desert, continental etc. 5. YouTube channel: The students act as weathermen to predict the weather forecast in different parts of the partner countries using a weather map and everything which they have learnt during the project. They film this and upload them to TwinSpace. Teachers can create an unlisted YouTube channel- “We are the Weathermen” and add these videos to the channel. Tool: Collaborative questions : google doc Video creation: Kizoa Ebook- madmagz /a>