Keywords: German language

The subject domain of the project was German language, and the topic was German festivities. The participants were 14 sixth grade students, and one teacher. The project lasted eight weeks, and approximately one hour per week was used for the project. The students adopted quite quickly the use of FLE3 and KB. They also found quite easily interesting feast to study, even though there were big differences in finding information and deciding what was relevant for the project.

Posted by Marjaana Rahikainen at 19/05/2003

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The project was carried out in a third grade classroom with 18 students (aged 9 years), and one teacher. There was also one expert (outside of the school), a biologist, participating in the project. The project lasted 11 weeks, approximately 2 hours per week in computer lab. According the teacher, the project was successful; the students got familiar with the principles and procedures of progressive inquiry. Even though the project was first time for the students to apply progressive inquiry, they were motivated and not complaining at all even they needed to be patient sometimes with all the new issues to learn. The students adopted easily FLE3, and the teacher felt that FLE3 supported the project well.

Posted by Marjaana Rahikainen at 19/05/2003

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The participants were one teacher and 28 sixth grade students. The project was related to natural science, ICT, and partly also to Finnish language. The project lasted two months, approximately 1-4 hours per week (1-2 h in the classroom, and 1-2 h in FLE3). The main goal of the project was to get familiar with the practices of inquiry learning, and overall improvement of the students’ learning skills. The specific aim was to investigate how seas, especially sea currents, have effect on milieu in different parts of the world.

Posted by Marjaana Rahikainen at 19/05/2003

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