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10. Round up: what did we learn?

Learning task: making conclusions

Activities:

  • discussion;
  • feedback;
  • writing a summary;
  • publishing our stories in class website.

 

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9. “Bosses” in our class

Learning task: how to organizeour elections Valimised

Activities:

  • organizing elections;
  • choosing evaluators;
  • electing the ,,bosses”;
  • evaluating the process of the elections;
  • celebrating the election victory.

 

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8. Promises, promises, promises…

Learning tasks:

  • thinking about our homeland and its needs;
  • improving presentation skills;
  • improving listening skills;
  • asking and answering questions.

Activities:

  • presentating the political platforms;
  • answering the questions about the platform;
  • listening to other platforms;
  • asking questions to get better information.

 

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7. Creating political parties-II

Learning task: creating a political platform.

Activities:

  • discussion: What can we promis? How can we keep our promises?
  • studying examples;
  • groupwork.

Example 1Example 2

 

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6. Creating political parties-I

 

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Learning tasks:

  • creating a political party;
  • making a poster to introduce it.

Activities:

  • groupwork;
  • drawing a poster;
  • presentating posters.

 

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5. Collecting and searching information from the Internet

Learning tasks:

Activities:

  • Watching presentations: Estonian political parties.
  • searching information: the structure of the local government, the structure of city council, elections.

 

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4. Is it difficult to be a politician?

Learning tasks: teaching discussion techniques

Activities:

  • Watching a video Väitlus;
  • Discussion about politician’s work;
  • analyzing what personal qualities their job needs;
  • good and bad in their jobs;
  • making conclusions;
  • debate in two groups (as we did in our workshop)

 

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3. Introducing groupwork

 

Learning tasks: collaboration, teamwork, presentations.

Activities:

  • watcing a presentation: Siim Kallase ettekanne;
  • making posters with keywords;
  • introducing the gropwork (mayor of Paide, chairman of the city council);

 

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2. Who is this man/woman?

Learning tasks:

  • teaching students to do interviews;
  • checking out the local concil and government work.

Activities:

Mayor of Paide, chairman of the council, townhall.

 

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1. What is politics?

Learning tasks:

  • subject identification;
  • introducing the aim of the project and activities;

Activities:

  • dividing students into two groups;
  • keyword: politics;
  • introducing the groupwork;
  • conclusions: what do we know and what  would we like to find out;
  • explaining particular stages of the project.

 

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