DRAGON IS COMING... ETWINNING PROJECT

Tittle	DRAGON IS COMING…….
Idea/short description	Working for Children's Projects is a challenge because it means, above all, a new approach, a change of attitude on the part of educators. Fundamentally, it places us in a conscious position of attentive listening to the child as a starting point. Observe what really interests you through your questions to "hook" with your thinking, fueling your deep need to learn. In this way our role becomes more interesting and also more complex: as a channel of proposals, organizer of points of view, asking timely questions, providing resources and evaluating the activity itself. It is not based on a homogenizing and egalitarian education idea, but on the contrary, on diversity as a value that enriches a community: each child, each teacher, each family, ... and this is a potential factor that in the Work for Projects finds a concrete expression of a whole educational philosophy that characterizes our center as a Learning Community. The research on dragons has been proposed, because it represents a world of illusion, color and fantasy that is very attractive and motivating to children. From the work with the dragons we can know how they are, how they reproduce, where they live, different types, meet other reptiles, relate them with stories, art as well as all areas of learning. The proposed activities have in common the investigation of each of these items to arrive at a final product that is a collaborative story in which the learned lessons are exposed.
Partners	Spain-
Language	English
Pupils age range	Pupils 3-6
Numbers of pupils involved	over  70 students
Curriculum areas involved	Multidisciplinar
Goals	Know other cultures of other countries, specifically the participants in our project. • Cooperate, interact, learn, have fun with the different activities proposed to achieve a common goal. • Encourage the use of new information and communication technologies, using ICT to develop, comment and interact with students from other centers. • Involve the families of the students, and the entire educational community in general, in this collaborative work. • Exchange experiences with other schools about our way of working
Work progress time   January:	• Students and partners will take pictures of their school, class, city, and country and present themselves. • Have a first Skype meeting to get in touch and learn from each other. • Creation of the logo about the dragons. Each school team can start creating a logo and upload it when it is ready. Then, pupils will vote and choose the winner.
February:	We investigate how the dragons are, how they reproduce, what they eat, where they come from ... making the beginning of the collaborative story presenting what our invented dragon is called describing what it is like, how it was born, where it was born, where it lives ..., the representation will be done in folios for the final story as well as its representation in other plastic works. From all this, photos and videos are made to share with our partners.
March	We research on types of Eastern, Western, Komodo Dragon, Flying Dragon, etc. With them we compare dragons of the world that allows us to follow the story of our collaborative story comparing the importance or relationship of dragons to different cultures.
April:	• We represent a story related to dragons. We record it and show it to our partners. • Assembly with photos and video of the collaborative story and dissemination with the other partners. • Common quarterly magazine with parts of all partners' activities.
expected results	Creation of common materials (collaborative story, research) in the double space through cooperation activities, in addition to the development of work by projects within the curriculum of each school. This should give a European dimension to the curriculum and allow students to learn "through" the activities developed with European partners.