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Activity:	Subject:	Activity number:
"Visit to a history museum or an exposition"	History	A10
Name of the activity:	Place:	Date:
Visit to the history museum	Pirkkala	30 August 2016
Number of pupils:	Pupils age:	Connection to other subjects:
21	10-12	Geography

Preparatory activities:

The “school office” of Pirkkala school education department organized the activity. The teacher organized the transport (by bike) to the museum.

Activity:

The pupils were shown old ways of living in Pirkkala starting from the 14^th century. They could try some old ways of farming and the work of an blacksmith and they were pupils in an old school of the late the 19^th century.

Subsequent activities:

Results:

The visit to the museum showed the pupils how the people lived and worked a long ago. They were active, not just seeing and reading about things. The activities were well organized.

Comments:

The pupils got a very good exposure on historical things coming real in an interesting way.

                                                                    

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Activity:	Subject:	Activity number:
“Didactic concert, music festival at school”	Music	A8
Name of the activity:	Place:	Date:
Didactic concert	Kirkonkylän koulu, Pirkkala	22 September 2016
Number of pupils:	Pupils age:	Connection to other subjects:
51	6-12	Finnish

Preparatory activities:

Hiring the band, bus transportation arrangements

Activity:

The soldier band performed to the pupils playing classical and modern music and introducing their instruments: guitars (base, electrical, etc.), flute, trumpet, saxophone, piccolo and drums. The vocalist was the “teacher” and told about the music and the instruments very well and got the pupils full attention.

Subsequent activities:

Results:

The interest on music and instruments grew and they were discussed later during the music lessons.

Comments:

To see young men performing in a humorous and funny way but showing much talent was the best.

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Activity:	Subject:	Activity number:
"Art project at school and visit to a library"	Art and Craft	A6
Name of the activity:	Place:	Date:
Kid E-lit	Tampere	29 November 2016
Number of pupils:	Pupils age:	Connection to other subjects:
32	9-12	Finnish, English

Preparatory activities:

One teacher took part in a Nordic E-Stories Seminar arranged by the Finnish Children Literature Institute on the 8^th November 2016.

Activity:

The pupils went to see an exhibition of e-literature made by children in the main library in Tampere.

Subsequent activities:

At school they draw their own pictures or took pictures of their own with iPads and wrote then stories to their pictures using iPads.

Cooperation with the library of Pirkkala and the University of Tampere  (the teacher took part in a research on the cooperation between schools and the library).

Results:

The pupils worked enthusiastic with their themes and the final products were nice.

The final products of this activity were shown to other pupils of the school and some of them will be shown in the blog of the Erasmus+-project. In addition to these some of the works will be published also in the final report of the “Cooperation between schools and library” – project.

Comments:

The joy of making e-stories of their own in groups was remarkable. Also the new form of cooperation with the library of Pirkkala was a very positive experience.