Comenius Project: How, when and why.

Our project deals with learning different areas through different languages(CLIL) in an integrated way, connecting learning and giving sense to learning. We want to focus our attention on new methods to teach/learn Science through experiments and children's investigation, how to learn/teach History from our country and other European countries through our/its Music, Art, literature, etc. We will make possible a more practical learning thanks to ICT because this will be the main way to interchange information,children's work, videoconferences, etc. The partnership is between Primary schools with the same aim and very similar motivations and difficulties , so we all have not only the desire, but the need to start this cooperation to improve our educative practice. We also want to increase our students’ self- awareness and pride in local natural/historical/ archaeological beauties and cultural traditions , especially because these happen to be the topics our primary schoolchildren can exchange information, emotions and principled points of view. In other words, we want our pupils to express themselves purposefully in different languages on topics they care about, to real communicators (their European young partners) through modern tools (e-mail, Skype, etc), giving their teachers the opportunity to foster all Lisbon competences: problem-solving, initiative, learning to learn, foreign languages, making decisions, etc.