Childhood Chronicles Project

The main goal of the project is to connect children from different parts of Europe or other continents to networking. The project offers a virtual space for children to meet and promote a dialogue where they can share their ideas and plans for a better life, using as main tool words, colours and forms, too.

Childhood Chronicles includes eleven sections and their aim is to preserve national culture, to understand the other cultures of the world and to incorporate the traditional oral knowledge in education, internationally shared. Students are encouraged to contribute to this project and to build international friendship, using networking facilities.

We begin to love music, poetry, nature, and games at an early age. Children express their joy in playing or singing and begin to imitate adults. The parents and the educators as well have the opportunity and responsibility to prepare pupils for adult life through meaningful collaborative interaction with anyone on the globe. Technology is a new way for teaching children according to the educational reform in the world, in the new millennium.

Childhood Chronicles, Artwork by Maria Dumitru
The following sections run as international projects during the school year 1999/2000
Children's Folklore, an universal anthology of worldwide children
The second year of a successful project. Children from 108 schools (61 countries) shared their favourite games, rhymes or customs.
Exploring the wonderful world of Music
Our favourite composers or styles of music, including contemporary, national or folk style of music.
Examining our own lives from a mathematical perspective
Examining our lives related to social justice and equality from a mathematical perspective.
 
The following sections run as local projects during the school year 1999/2000. They are internationally running during this school year.
Our life ideals and principles as European Citizens
Learning about the true values of life, in school, family and through networking projects.
What is our opinion about the future of environment?
Students' concern related to the environment future and their point of view about.
Do Clothes Make the Man or Not?
An exercise for increasing motivation and encouraging an openness to new ideas.
Imagination, eye of the soul
Imagination is the eye of the soul! A fairy granted you three desires, what would you wish for?
Sharing our ideas, dreams and favourite subjects through colours
Building international friendships and promoting Art globally in schools and on the network too.
Incorporating the traditional oral knowledge in education
Sharing short stories inspired by a proverb or a saying, preserving national and world culture.
Customs as part of community culture
Why folk customs and traditions are part of our spiritual life?
The project suggests activities for combining authentic language in order to learn the humanitarian concept of cultural understanding, creating strong links between the virtual and real classrooms through the modern forms of communication and also to promote global learning in schools using telecommunications.

The project covers all curricular areas: Language, Literature, Math, History, Geography, Art, Math, Music, Civic Education, Physical Education, Computer Science, Social and Natural Science.

This project is designed to promote tolerance, understanding, equity, world's peace, breaking down cultural barriers, to know Europe and the other parts of the world and to preserve its values.

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Coordinators Maria and Petru Dumitru
Duiliu Zamfirescu School, Focsani, Romania
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