Project

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Project
chess
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Project CHESS
CHanges in European SocietieS Goals to build up
a framework of schools from different countries
(Spain, Germany, Denmark) for reflecting, working
on and comparing the different changes in the
communities of each region.
developed by Christoph Abt, Karen Conrad, Dorte
Jensen, Roland Schneidt, Isabel Rodriguez Suarez,
Belen Noval Vega
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CHESS Structure

• 1st STEP
• Class-discussion
• Setting the goals
• What are we about to achieve?
• Who are the partners?
• Explaining the aim of the project

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CHESS Structure

• 2nd STEP
• Planning in student-groups
• Where to find information?
• How are we going to develop it?
• What sort of materials are needed?
• How are we going to distribute the tasks?
• What resources are to be used?

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CHESS Structure

• 3rd STEP
• Realisation in student-groups
• teamwork accomplishing the task
• group presentation
• group self-evaluation

If at this point the group goals are not
fulfilled, and for this reason the objectives are
not completed, the group will have to return to
step number 2 (Planning)
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CHESS Structure

• 4th STEP
• Each group gives a presentation to the class
• New technologies are to be used

FEEDBACK
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CHESS Structure

• 5th STEP
• Evaluation within the groups
• As a result of it, students compose their work to
  a final summary in English and on websites

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CHESS Structure

• 6st STEP
• Exchange European partners
• Presentations of all the project-work in English
  (alternatively presentation on the internet)

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CHESS Structure

• 7th STEP
• Summarise
• Evaluation

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Evaluation 1
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Evaluation 2
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CHESS Aviles

• Instituto de Educacion
• Secundaria de Valliniello
• subjects basic economic knowledge, f.o.l.
  (vocational guidance and first employment
  research)
• Teacher
• Belen Noval Vega
• Isabel Rodriguez Suarez

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CHESS Aviles

• main objective of students project
• changes in the 21st European society
• social and economic changes in Aviles (changing
  from heavy metal industries to the tertiaer
  sector)
• future employment perspective (new technologies,
  services, tourism, etc.)

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CHESS Aviles

• TIME SCHEDULE
• weekly three hours
• weeks six
• Time steps to follow
• 1 week planning
• 3 weeks realisation
• 1 week evaluation and final write-up project
• 1 week class presentation and final evaluation

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CHESS Slagelse

• Slagelse Gymnasium
• Class 2nd year
• Subjects Danish, history, social science,
  geography, religion
• Teacher
• Karen Conrad
• Dorte Jensen

Picture of the school
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CHESS Slagelse

• Historical dimension
• The middle of the 19th century
  Industrialization-Consequences, changes in rural
  life, Urbanization, Political changes,
  Infra-structure, Womens lib, Religious and other
  ideological changes
• Draw a timeline through the 20th century
• Focus on the impact of the two world wars,
  especially the 30ies, the 60ies and now.
• Focus on your own region, taking the above
  mentioned changes into consideration

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CHESS - Slagelse

• Time schedule
• 6 weeks
• 1 week introductory class work
• 4 weeks group work
• 1 week presentation and evaluation.

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CHESS Bieberstein

• Hermann-Lietz-Schule
• Schloss Bieberstein
• Class 11-13
• Subjects Social Studies, History, Geography
• Teacher
• Martin Grosch
• Christoph Abt

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CHESS Bieberstein

• Region
• In very close proximity to the former
  German/German Border.
• Subjects/Classes involved
• We will make it an intra-school project and
  combine the social study classes of our Years
  11-13
• Tasks
• Our task will be to examine the radical changes
  in the region since the opening of the border.
• Students will find out about the changes in
  infrastructure (re-opened roads), the economy
  (people in the State of Thuringa still earning
  less in comparison to Hessen), different patterns
  of every day life and

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CHESS Bieberstein

• Objectives/Methodology
• Students will hopefully
• visit Alphapoint a former border checkpoint,
  now a museum
• develop the questionnaire being used to
  interview a cross-selection of the population
  including mayors of surrounding villages
• go out and do the interviews
• analyse the answers/results using an EXCEL
  spreadsheet
• summarise their findings in writing
• present it to the school during one of or
  weekly assemblies
• travel to the various partner schools to
  compare and summarise findings

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CHESS Bieberstein

• Time schedule
• 6 weeks
• 1 week introductory class work
• 4 weeks group work
• 1 week presentation and evaluation.

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Key ideas

• Enhancing autonomous learning
• Developing new skills for teachers and students
• Facilitating the use of new technologies
• Encouraging positive attitudes
• Promoting cooperation between teachers and
  students
• Strengthening the idea of the European Dimension
• Broadening the knowledge about the European
  community

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