Celebrations And Generations Project Description

2) Brief one-sentence description of project: Students research, find and send information about celebrations and to participation in it representatives different generations in country or region.

3) Full description of project:

When we worked on iEARN-Project "National Drinks and Related Traditions", we found very interesting traditions from different countries. People around the world enjoy preparing and taking part in different kinds of celebrations. The history of celebrations is really interesting and amazing, but role of it is different for different generation (for example: New Year, Christmas, Mothers Day, Birthday, etc.). Every Celebration (has the very unique path from its birth till nowadays. Students can compare information about one celebration in different countries and one celebration for different generation.

In this collaborative project students will explore and work on following issues - Name and date of Celebration popular in the country, region or town - history of this celebration, who and how take part in it, what this celebration mean for students, for his/her parents and grandparents.

4) Age/level of project participants: 12 - 18

5) Timetable: from September 2003

6) Possible project/classroom activities: searching for appropriate literature, web-sites, reading and writing texts, taking interview and photo
7) Expected outcomes/products: web site, brochure

Project contribution to others and the planet:
Dialogue among cultures

9) Project language(s): English; Russian; Georgian

10) Curriculum area: Interdisciplinary

11) Participants was from:

Azerbaijan
Argentina
Armenia
Belarus
Bulgaria
Romania
Georgia
Ukraine
Latvia
Macedonia
India

12) Name of facilitator: Pavle Tvaliashvili

13) Email of facilitator: