Group 1

How can we collaborate and communicate in order to survive?

Countries that worked together and the age groups

Denmark, Norway, Belgium (11 - 13)

Triggers

The letters from the future were a reccuring theme in group 1. On the second international day, the letter was meant to thank the students for helping to find shelter and a way of surviving on the water, but also to tell the students that people still needed food, water, and energy in the future and needed support for that.

The letter was translated in different languages:

Kjære mennesker fra fortiden

Vi vil takke dere for all den hjelp dere har gitt oss så langt.

We zijn erin geslaagd een veilig onderkomen te vinden op het water ondanks de vreselijke omstandigheden.

maar onze voedselvoorraden zijn bijna op.

Vi har ingen elektricitet, og snart har vi ingen mad eller vand til at overleve.

Vi har brug for jeres hjælp!

You need to work together to help us survive!

Vi holder på å bli desperate igjen.

Van de bewoners van de toekomst

The students had to help the people from the future, or they would not be able to survive! So, they began discussing how they could solve the problems they were faced with.

Process: Discover, Develop, Deliver

Discover

How can we communicate?

In order to survive, we must communicate.

In each classroom, the students watched videos about producing freshwater from saltwater and how to harvest from the fjords.

They discussed which kinds of food they would need to survive, how to generate power, and how a community needs to be divided into 'sections', each with their own specialty, in order for a society to effectively function.

Develop

The first group (Norway), whose focus was agriculture, worked on creating shelf-gardens and algae farms which are a collection of plants arranged in a shelf system, with a watering function. They also made fruit gardens on the rooftops of their houses, and discussed how to use unwanted species as a source of food.

The second group (Belgium) were in charge of naturally occurring food sources, created bio-domes and farmed meal worms.

The third team (Denmark), built power generators, and water refiners, talking about how they would need to adapt certain existing products to the future habitat, and creating their own.

Deliver

All three groups took pictures of their products on a green screen, together with their houses from the previous day, and put these into a Book Creator. We then explained our process, from the drawings, to the construction.

Padlet: Summary of day 2 in photos and videos

International Collaboration

Post-phase:

Prior to the day, we shared ideas, links, triggers, and useful information using a Padlet.

We also put our translations and more ideas into the Padlet throughout the day, as well as posting onto TweetBeam.

To end the day, we contacted our partner school using Skype, and presenting our products.

We published our Book Creators so that the other teams were able to understand our process and activities.

Finally, a delegation of lecturers from the 'Kyungpook National University' in South Korea came to visit our project and were impressed with the results.

Book Creator Books

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