Time

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y from past experiences

to future expecta

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About our project The general topic of our project comprised teenagers and their parents’ lifestyles in Europe. We investigated teenagers and parents hobbies, interests, life goals, future perspectives connected with work and private life as well as problems that they encounter - drugs, alcohol, unemployment. Our aims were:- to develop abilities to notice social risks, find solutions to problems resulting from addictions, unemployment etc.- to make students more aware of the life and problems in the past, and compare them with the present.- to make students realize what are their future perspectives (education, job opportunities)- to promote the use of communication and information technologies;- develop abilities to share knowledge and skills;- promote creativity and innovation;

- promote interpersonal skills: assertiveness, empathy etc

We divided our project into four parts. In each semester a different partner school was responsible for carrying out and supervising of planned activities.

Semester I- Subject: „My Lifestyle” Students prepared a video „This is me”, wrote an article and made a documentary comparing lifestyles now and then.

Semester II Subject: „My community” Students from each partnership country collected and took old and new photos of their school, town and prepared a display. They also prepared statistics, diagrams, short comments about social facilities in their region.

Semester III - Subject: „Problems and difficulties” All students identified social problems now and in the past and created a report. Each school organized a seminar with a specialst and a debate for students.

Semester IV - Subject: „Future perspectives” All schools created a magazine and organized a Career Day. Each school also buryied a time capsule with copies of our results for next generations on the last day of school in June 2015.

Preparatory visit in Poland - Jan. 2013

Project meeting in

The first project visit took place in Turkey in October 2013. We welcomed students and teachers from Poland, Slovakia and Portugal. All together 27 participants. During the visit our students and teachers and our guests participated in many different project activities. We prepared p r e s e nt a t i o n s about our countries and ‘This is Me’ videos – showing our lifestyles now in different parts of Europe. We also took part in a Quiz Show - checking how much we know about our partners - the winning team – P o r t u g a l . Our students working in international teams also created a logo of our project. In the free time, we visited many beautiful places in Cappadocia. We went to the Uchisar Castle, climed the fairychimneys in Pasabağ, visited the Underground City inKaymaklı. We have also learnt some things about pottery in Avanos. Some of us even tried to make our own pots. The project visit in Turkey was a wonderful experience for us. We met new people from all over Europe and started a great friendship.

Turkey

Time for a Quiz Show !

Let’s meet each other

Every day all the students and teachers participating in the project, met at school and took part in pro-ject activities together.We had a lot of fun!

Logo One of our project tasks was to create a logo. Students from Turkey, Poland, Slovakia and Portugal worked hard together in international groups and came up with five great logos. We uploaded all of them on our Facebook page and let the students choose the best one. The logo below won this competition with the majority of votes from all four countries and become the official logo of our project.

Cappadocia

In our free time, we visited many different places and enjoyed the magnificent views of Cappadocia.

Lifestyles now and then

Another task of our project was to compare our lifestyles with the ones of our parents and grandparents. In order to learn more about the life in the past we visited Cappadocia Cultural Center where we were able to see different everyday objects used by our grandparents.Then we came up with the questions and held an interview both with our elders and peers.

Seasonal Greetings

December 2013, time to celebrate New Year. We made a lot of New Year cards and sent them to our project partners. We also got a lot of cards in return. Thank You. They were wonderful.

Our Community Now and Then

In February 2014, we started the second part of our project ‘Our Community’. To make our students more familiar with this topic we invited Mükremin Tokmak – a local writer and collectioner – to tell us about Cappadocia in the past. Then we asked our students to find the photos of different places in our region from now and then. As a result we prepared an exibiton of those and presented it to the local community during the Kardelen Days.

Project meeting in

SlovakiaThe second project visit took place in Turčianske Teplice in Slovakia, May 2014. During the meeting we presented the results of our work – ‘Our lifestyles now and then’ and ‘Our Community now and then’. We also worked together in international groups on a handbook of everyday expressions. In our free time, we visited such places as the city of Banská Bystrica, the Mint in Kremnica and Bojnice castle. On the way home we spent one more day in Vien admiring its beautiful architecture. We had a great time in Slovakia and we learnt many new things about different cultures.

Handbook of everyday expressions

During the visit we worked together on a handbook of everyday expressions. That was a great fun. Hopefully during the next project meeting we would be able to communicate not only in English but also in our partners’ languages.

Banska BystricaKremnica

Bojnice

Vien

Social Problems Now and Then

In September 2014, we started the third part of our project ‘Problems and Difficulties’. Our first task was to identify social problems for our students now and for their parents in the past. In order to do that we prepared a questionnaire and presented the results of it during the project meeting in Madeira, Portugal. In addition our students were asked to make posters about social problems now and in the past for their Social Studies lessons. They also and took part in a brainstorming sessions conducted by their teachers.

Project meeting in

MadeiraThe third project visit took place in Madeira, Portugal in November 2014. During the meeting we watched the increadible show of the ‘Lion King’ performed by the Portuguese students, we took part in different sports activities and workshops at school and we presented the results of our ‘Social Problems Now and Then’ questionnaire. In the free time, we visited the city center of Funchal and had a tour by the cable car to Monte Palace Gardens where we could see the stunning views of the island. During the following days we also visited Port Moniz, Camara de Lobos and Calheta Sugar Cane Mill. We had a great time.

In Lisbon

During the meeting we presented the results of ‚Social Problems Now and Then’ questionnaire.

Funchal

Port MonizCamara de Lobos

We visited many beatiful places in Madeira. We enjoyed a lot.

Seasonal Greetings

December 2014. The second New Year we celebrated together. We worked hard to make New Year cards for our partners. We wish you all the best in 2015 our dear friends !

Future Perspectives

Career Days

In January 2015, we started the fourth part of our project ‘Future Perspectives’. In order to make our students more aware of their future perspectives in their education, we organized Career Days at our school. We also held interviews with our students and their parents and prepared ‚Top 10 Jobs Now and Then’ posters, which we presented during the project visit in Poland.

During the Career Days we invited our parents to school to talk about their jobs. The most popular occupations among our students were: a doctor, an engineer, a teacher and an architect.

One of the professions, the students wanted to learn more about, was an architect. We organized a field trip to Uchisar, and visited one of the architects’ office to gain a better knowledge of how they work.

We also had a chance to see how the plans and blueprints created by architects are used by the other companies in reconstruction of the old listed building in our region. Our students learnt a lot of new things not only about the architects job but also about the typical architecture of Cappadocia.

Argos in Uchisar

Project meeting in

Poland The fourth project visit took place in Gniewkowo, Poland in May 2015. During the meeting we presented the results of our research ‘ Top 10 Jobs Now and Then’ and we worked in international groups creating posters about each partners country. In our free time, we visited gauge railway museum in Wenecja, Torun - a hometown of Nicolaus Copernicus and a settlement of Biskupin where we participated in the workshops how to make ornaments from the Bronze Era. We also visited Gdansk and Westerplatte – a place where the World War II started – and on the last day a health resort in Inowroclaw. We enjoyed this meeting a lot but at the same time we were quite sad as we knew it was the last visit during this project. We can only hope that our friendship remains and that we will see each other some time in the future again.

During the meeting we presented the results of our work ‚Top 10 Jobs Now and Ten’. It was very interesting to compare our posters with the ones created by our partners. We came to a conclusion that we have got a lot in common.

We had a lot of fun during the field trips and we learnt a lot of new things.

Time Capsule during the Kardelen Days

The project came to an end. During these two years we met wonderful people and we started new friendships. We also visited increadible places in different parts of Europe. But most of all, we worked hard on our project tasks. Therefore, we wanted to share the project outcomes, not only with our European peers but also with our local community. In June 2015, we hosted an exhibition of our work during Kardelen Days in our local shopping center.

Time Capsule project in the time capsule

In June 2015, on our last day of school, we buried the real time capsule with our project results (Time Capsule Magazine) in our school garden for next generations.We plan to dig it out 10 years later and see how we and our perception of the world will have changed during these years.