Topic:

The fair of Saint George: the oldest in the world

Age of students  CLASS II G

12

Subjects involved

Art, History, Italian, English

Aims

1. build an intercultural knowledge and  vision
2.  improve language skills and oral communication skills
3.  diversify methods and practices in the classroom
4. develop interests and a multilingual mentality
5. give concrete opportunities to study the same content from different perspectives
6. improve the ability to use ICT

Skills

1. Learn by Doing
2.  Learn to learn
3. digital skills
4. cultural awareness

Resources(materials,ICT tools etc…)

On line information, online videos,  books, computers, camera, microphones, medieval costumes.

Final outcome

Video presentation: six girls dressed with medieval clothes  simulate to live in medieval time. They talk about the fair

Procedure

1)First, History teacher  helped students to look for information about the Fair.

2) Students selected information and wrote them in English

3)Students invented a script to be staged with the support  of the English teacher by using information about the fair selected before.

4)All students  visited  different locations in order to be able to choose the most suitable one where to shoot the performance. The visit was done with the presence of a movie maker, History and Art teacher.

5)The teacher of Art  focused the attention on the artistic importance of the location

7) a video of the performance was  shot in a cloister of a church in medieval costume with the help of a movie-maker.

8) all students watched the video in class and expressed their opinions about the work done