Teens Today
"Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.” Edward Zwick
WHAT WE DO
Our logo (students create and vote for the best logo for the project and add their ideas)
Above and Beyond (students and teacher watch a video about the importance of having different ideas and developing creativity to become responsible adults in the future; then they express their ideas about the video)
Brainstorming (on a digital wall students read some quotations about adolescence today and add theirs from the web)
Wordwalls (students create wordwalls using keywords related to adolescence)
This I believe (students listen to a child talking about what he believes in and then they write about their beliefs on a digital board)
Have you ever ...? (on a digital wall students write about their experiences as teens)
As a teenager you have just ..., haven't you? (on a digital wall students practice question tags about being teenagers today)
Adolescents today (students read some passages about adolescence as an age of transition, about the importance of healthy relationships, about teen problems - bullying, cyberbullying, substance use and abuse. Then they share a common digital board providing reasons for loving or hating being teenagers today and uploading a collaborative ebook)
TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY (students prepare digital materials about the TV series providing their personal opinions - they listen to Hannah Baker speaking and then they provide 13 reasons why they love being teenagers)
Teens diaries (in a collaborative work, students prepare digital diaries sharing their ideas and dreams with the German and Romanian students; they include some poems created with the caviardage techinque)