Team Project

Description of the Course:

The GIC curriculum is designed according to CTEL – ITT methodology and principles. It provides an integrated and team learning approach with a student in the center. The GIC module is a four - month online program and aims to help students develop important skills necessary for a global citizen with relevant knowledge. Students will be conducted one - hour lessons twice a month. During each lesson they will be introduced to the context within all three subjects using a variety of applications or resources depending on the topic. They will perform exercises which will prepare them for the final, main activity. At the end of each lesson students will create a specific product based on the purpose and theme of the lesson. The goal of activities will be to engage students actively in the learning process considering their prior knowledge, and interests. The course activities will be adapted based on the results of the formative assessment.

Essential Questions:

1. What is reality and how is it constructed?

2. What tools can an individual use to judge the difference, or draw a line between illusion and reality?

3. How can digital graphic images help an individual convey ideas perfectly and flexibly?

4. What target language is necessary to implement ideas in oral and written communication based on the given topic.

5. How can we share experience of team teaching and cascade new knowledge received from the course with our colleagues?

National Standards Students Will Practice:

1. Socialization – an individual, society

2. Initiative and entrepreneurship

3. Sustainable development

4. Implement ideas using oral and written communication skills

5. Understand the content of the text using appropriate language tools and relate it to your own experience.

6. Understand the purpose of the algorithm and develop it individually; use programming elements (cycles, operators…) purposefully, create various computer games and programs in a visual programming environment

7. Work independently with search engines. Find and share information online. Do collaborative work online.

Evidence of Learning

Arc & Highlights of the Experience

Unit 1:

The first part deals with creating a positive atmosphere for students and building a rapport. We will try to increase students' interest in the topic of the program, introduce the principles of integrated and teamwork learning, introduce the concepts of illusion and reality, and teach how to apply the acquired knowledge and experience in real life situations.

This stage will be especially important for students to master different methods, approaches, tools, applications provided by the course, as well as to cooperate with each other in teams, to get acquainted with the principles of assessment.

It will also be important for both students and teachers to discover strategies and techniques that have hindered or facilitated group work to be considered for more effective work at a later stage.

Lesson 1

Introduction

Starting the course with this issue will be both interesting and fun for the students. Teachers show some mirages, illusionists’ performances, tricks, illusion drawings to students and they express their thoughts about what they see, who they are made for and why…

In this way, the teacher intends to make students realize that illusion is everywhere and in everything. Illusion does not only exist in the human imagination but it can also be created by nature in the form of mirages. It will also be good for students to understand how illusions have been turned into new forms of art or literary works (fairy tales, comics, myths, science fiction) and especially learn how to explain unknown, dangerous and special events. In addition, it is important to realize that illusion and reality are inseparable (there are two sides of one coin).

• Showing mirages, illusionist’s tricks, illusion drawings

• Time to talk and express ideas

• Vocabulary activities

• Reading or watching a fairy tale

• Reading a myth

• Working in https://bookcreator.com

• Watching a film “Now You See Me”

Main Objective:

Students will create comics with their own illusion in https://bookcreator.com using the target language.

Lesson 2

Main Objective:

Using the target language students will create a poster in Canvas about turning modern illusion into reality.

Let’s imagine, for example, that someone found a Templers' hidden Grail Cup, drank it, and gained Eternal Youth / Life, or imagine that Marvel Superheroes (Captain America, Spider-Man, Iron Man, etc.) actually exist. And then students have to show in the poster the positive/progressive and negative/regressive sides of turning modern illusion into reality and state their final position/argument on the question “Will this event be positive or negative for people?”

• Discussions

• Vocabulary activities

• Grammar – Conditional sentences

• Working in Canva

Lesson 3

Introduction

In this lesson students will imagine that some of the realities we have today came true long ago. Students will imagine how it could have changed history. For example, what would have happened, if King Erekle and the president of the USA of that time had had a communication on the phone before the Treaty of Georgievsk.

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Main Objective:

Students will create a small alternative scenario for the development of the country in a shared google doc.

They will answer the following questions: What would be the territory of Georgia? What forms of the government would we have? Would it be a former Soviet country? Would we already be a member of NATO and the EU? Would we be an economically rich country? and so on..

• Discussion

• Vocabulary activities

• Reading an informative text on history

• Grammar – Unreal Conditional

• Working in Google Docs

Unit 2:

At this stage, students will already have mastered the principles of integrated learning and teamwork, which will make it easier for us to create a positive environment. Also, the topics of the curriculum will be clear to them, they will already have the experience of teamwork in the online format based on previous lessons, which will facilitate the creation of an organized environment. Teachers will also have significant feedback already on organizing teamwork, using the methods, approaches, tools and applications, which at the core of the project will greatly help us to plan our activities more flexibly.

This is the main stage of our curriculum, consisting of 4 lessons, and here the focus is on illusion and reality as a whole, especially the pros and cons of illusion: the local and global dangers of illusion in relation to the development of the individual, society and state. So, it is important for students to describe and analyze how illusion can become a source of progress without losing touch with reality, and vice versa, when illusion loses touch with reality this can lead to regression and destructive processes. Students will create one product at the end of each lesson to make knowledge transfer.

Lesson 4

Introduction

The aim of this lesson, on the one hand, is to help children understand how they can protect themselves from illusion in order not to be deceived with it (a well-known film” Life is Beautiful” cane be very helpful here), and on the other hand, students will also realize that if people pursue illusion and lose their sense of reality completely, it will threaten their personal development or they will lose contact with the real world.

Topics – Life is wonderful vs drug addiction

• Watching a film “Life is Wonderful”

• Reading a short review of the book “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

• Discussions

• Vocabulary activities

• Creating short videos

Main Objective:

Students will create a video on the topic –“ Personality and Illusion”

Lesson 5

Introduction

In this lesson students will realize that creation of artificial illusion and false reality may be dangerous for individuals and society, both locally and globally.

Topic – Fake News, Information

Main Objective:

Students will write an article about false reality using Canva program

• Reading a text

• Watching a film “The Wave”

• Discussion

• Vocabulary activities

• Working in Canvas

Lesson 6

Introduction

In this lesson teachers will try to show that a person with modern technology can compensate for a lack of relationship with family or other people, but on the other hand, modern technology can lead them to conflict or crime.

Topic: Real relationships vs online relations, online games

Main objective

Students will create a blog (imaginary diaries) about real and virtual relations

• Watching a film “Black Mirror”

• Discussions

• Reading

• Vocabulary activities

• Survey

Lesson 7

Introduction

In this lesson students will understand that if a person or a society create illusion, it can be dangerous and can destroy their identity and it can cause isolation.

Topic: Globalization vs Isolation (Tribes of Amazon, Africa, Tibet, North Korea).

Main objective:

Students will create a presentation in Padlet on “Globalization vs Isolation”

• Watching documentaries about isolated people

• Essay writing

• Reading

• Discussion

• Vocabulary activities

• Working in Padlet

Unit 3

This stage is the summary of our curriculum, which consists of 1 lesson and through it we plan to consolidate the knowledge and experience gained during the previous seven lessons. We want to come to a logical and interesting ending to the topic, which will be one of the best ways for students to connect the received knowledge and experience with a real-life context.

At this stage students will analyze and come up with a conclusion that illusion and reality are one whole and if we deal with it correctly it can lead us to progress. They will also justify that if a person and a society need to develop, they definitely need a connection to the global world. Finally, students will create a model of a settlement on Mars to illustrate how today 's illusion can become a reality tomorrow and a source of progress considering the existing dangers.

Lesson 8

Summary

Main Objective:

Students will create their own model of settlement on Mars in Scratch/Minecraft.

Students will find and analyze information about Mars (flipped classroom) and use this information to write a scenario about life on Mars.

Finally, students will learn that illusion and reality are one whole and if we perceive it in the right way, it can lead to progress. And, what is more important, if people/societies want to develop, they definitely need to be connected with the global world.

• Information about new technology

• Elon Musk

• Nikola Tesla

• Working in Scratch/Minecraft

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