I*EARN - International Education and Resource Network. 

With the help of I*EARN students from more than 80 countries of the world create mutual international and national telecommunication projects on different topics (of different directions). 

In Ukraine this programme has been carried by the “I*EARN” methodical resource centre with the assistance of the International Renessanse Foundation. The national network of this programme has been already created and is successfully working. 

Ukrainian I*EARN coordinator - Nina Dementievskaya.

HOW TO WORK ON NATIONAL PROJECTS I*EARN-UKRAINE:

1. The AUTHOR of the project sends the description of the project according to the order in his ML/mailing list/. In the field SUBJECT the author indicates the name of the project, all the participants have to adhere to till the end of the work.

2. All who received the description of the project have to give to the AUTHOR’s address  /not to ML/a brief answer to confirm that they’ve got his letter within a week after the date of the AUTHOR’s letter, and about their decision to take part in the project- in two weeks/ or earlier/ after the first letter of the AUTHOR.

3. If the AUTHOR hasn’t got this brief answer he sends the second letter to the school’s address/not ML/. If the AUTHOR has a desire/wants he may send a number of letters if schools do not answer.

4. To weeks later after the AUTHOR’s first letter and if there are not less than three participants the author included, he through ML sends the project tasks and terms to all the participants if it is a long-lasting project and it has such tasks. The order of the confirmation is the same as in the item 2.

5. If it is a short-dated project, the AUTHOR may give the tasks and the dates in the description of the project/ as it was in the project “Mykolaichyk”/.But if there are three or more participants the AUTHOR has to inform all  of them about the beginning of the project in ML and greet those who have responded in two weeks after the first letter with the description of the project.

6. After this the work starts and the AUTHOR becomes its COORDINATOR /coordinator of the project/.

7. If the participants or the author have some problems in fulfilling the project tasks it is obligatory TO KEEP IN TOUCH /don’t keep silence!/ and inform all the participants about your desire to work and to communicate with them.Your silence can be understood in different ways, so - explaine your silence in any case, please.

8. The COORDINATOR OF THE PROJECT coordinates all the work on the project, and he is responsible for the results together with the participants.

9. When the work is finished or interrupted for some reasons the COORDINATOR informs all the participants about that through ML.

10. After the work has been finished the COORDINATOR has to greet all the participants and to tell about this work and its results or, may be, about the problems if there are any, through ML.

HOW TO DESIGN PROJECTS:

1.  Name of project.

2. Brief/1-2/ sentences description of the main idea of the project.

3. Age/ level of project participants/

4. Date of the beginning of the project.

5. Update

6. Expected outcomes/products

7. Project contribution to others and the planet.

8. Are induviduals or classes going to be involved into the project?

9. Approximate number of project participants, needed for its successful realization.

10. Project languages.

11. E-mail, telephone number, fax and address of the coordinator of the project/ or person to contact/.

    If you want to join the project, put your signarture at the bottom.

NATIONAL PROJECTS

1998/1999

1999/2000

• “I have the right to have rights“ - a research project on civic education. This year we are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Children Rights Convention adopted by the UN organization. While participating in the project we are answering the questions: Is there any document in Ukraine, which proclaims children rights? And- how is the Convention reflected in this document? How are children rights defended in or country? 

Stages of the project: studying of the Convention of Children Rights. Comparing of the Convention with the document devoted to children rights, which exists in Ukraine. Studying of the historic documents, which proclaimed children rights in the last century. Interviewing. Conference. Creation of the Web-site.

Project languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English.

Age of the participants: 15-17.

Terms of the project: December 1999- June 2000.

The coordinator of the project: Natalya Cherednichenko, e- mail: dog@julia.kirovograd.ua  

 

“I am the Earth” - research ecologic project.

The name of the project: I am the Earth. The main idea: to study global ecologic problems and to research how they are manifested on the local level. Schools will be gradually provided with the information on concrete problems and tasks aimed at studying local manifestations and students’ personal relation to it. Level or age of the participants: schoolchildren-teenagers. Terms of the project: it will be realized in 2000 year.   Expected outcomes: changes in teenagers’ attitude to nature, improvement of their ecological knowledge, and healthy way of living. And, of course, development of technical skills connected with the usage of Internet. Creation of the Web-page, organization of ecologic camp will be the final product of the activity. Project contribution to others and the planet: attitude to global problems as to the problems of personal concern, correction of consumptive attitude to nature, activization of nature-protecting activity of senior students. The project will help to realize a well-known ecological motto: "Think globally, act locally”. The project is based on the psychological mechanism of reflexion and foresees attraction emotional spheres of every individual personality, who is presupposed to take part in the project. So they are individuals, who work on this project, not classes or groups of students. Project languages: Russian, Ukrainian, and English.  The project is coordinated by the scientific workers of Ecological Education laboratory of the Institute of education problems of Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, e-mail: smc@mail.kar.net.

 

“Near to us”.

The main idea of the project: to study and to create favourable conditions for keeping pets. Nature is of great importance in the life of every person, it satisfies our cognitive, health protecting, aesthetic, communicative and other needs. So, even when they don’t quite realize their needs, people sometimes keep exotic pets/ tropical fish, birds, reptiles or representatives of local fauna etc./In any case there is a problem of creation some special conditions for proper existence of living creatures. Working on the project students get to know from what parts of the world their pets come, natural conditions of their life (the climate, the relief), needs in water and food etc. Students describe the conditions they create for the pets. They also send their own drawings, pictures, photos poems and stories devoted to the pets they are keeping.

Age of participants: students of the 6-7 grades (12-14 years old).

Terms of the project: January 1,2000- June 15, 2000.

Products: increase of the effectiveness of ecological education, owing to the fact that students begin to understand their personal needs, which are satisfied by nature; extension and improvement of students’ ecological education and skills.

Products of the activity: publication of the collected materials on the project, where students’ works will be combined with scientific information. Project contribution to others and the planet: it will attract attention and improve the competence of the participants to the global problem of bio diversity preservation.

The project involves teaches of biology, geography, language and literature, drawing and their students.

Project languages: Ukrainian, Russian.

The coordinator of the project: Pustovit Natalyay Afanasievna-scientific consultant of RMC “Contemporary School”, e-mail: smc@mail.kar.net (please, indicate in the field subject PETS”).

• “Baron Munhgauzen’s Birthday” - research creative project.

  The main idea of the project: Our life is full of events of different emotional colours: weekdays and holidays, joys and sorrows, friendship and betrayal, love and disappointment, every day routine work and joy of gaining and understanding something new- and a lot of other funny or sad episodes. When we fail to succeed in something and are not very happy, we are defended by” the saving sence of humour, without which a person who is realistic in (analyzing the life) won’t take a risk to speak about himself”, as a wonderful children's’ writer Lev Kassil said. There are some surprising pages in the history, which are not studied in schools (are not in curriculum). People’s fantasy and mystery, brilliant humor and unconquered inventions can be found on these pages, which are lighted by the bright lights/ colors of extraordinary personalities. Baron Karl Frans Ieronim Fon Munhgauzen is one of such bright, mysterious, unpredictable, incredible historic personalities. Name of the project: "Baron Munhgauzen’s Birthday”.

  Aims of the project: to research the historical epoch and get to know historic and literary facts, connected with baron Munhgauzen’s life; to connect them with our modern life, to look at our problems from some another point of view.

  Age of the participants: students of 6-10 grades. 

  Terms of the project: January 1, 2000 - June 1, 2000.

  Stages of the project:

  1-st - we call it historic: The participants collect historic facts about the epoch of Munhgauzen and investigate facts of his biography.

  2-nd - literary stage: The participants find, study, read literary works of different authors about baron Munhgauzen and get ready for the 3-rd stage.

  3-rd -: they invite Munhgauzen to celebrate April 1 with them. Schools are getting ready for the parties, humour festivals etc. They exchange the scripts though Internet.

  4-th stage: presents for Munhgauzen’s birthday. Students write funny stories, poems, and rhymes. They organize school museum of Munhgauzen.

  5-th stage: final stage of collecting and systematisation of the material and results.

  Expected products: collected stories, drawings, photoes, and poems of all participants of the project. Project results for others: we want to show that it’s possible to enjoy studying, to study with joy, to gain new knowledge, to prove that fantasy and inventions are the main engines of history. Are classes or individuals going to be involved in the project? Every school answers this question in its own way, finding the best variant. Approximate number of participants- 3 schools- min as we hope will join us, but in general, - the more participants- the better! We are just starting to accustom to the role of our favourite hero - BaronMunhgauzen.

  Project languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English.

  The author of the project: Grivachova Alisa Borisovna- teacher of foreign literature, secondary school 9, Fastiv, Kiev region, e-mail: datskov@ukrpack.net.

• “The Dnipro-river Pure Water”.

  The main idea of the project: Every day students study the condition of water in reservoirs; define the content of contaminative substance in it (methodics are given). They send data generalized during a month to the centre, analizing changes in contamination and the reasons for that. The idea of the project was born from the practical experience of similar work in school 303 in Kyiv. The students of this school investigated the contamination of a lake in the Dniprovsky district of the city. Their results were compared with the data given by the city sanitary-epidemic inspection. They wrote about their observation to the district newspaper. And received an unexpected answer from deputies and some business structures,which have already carried out quite a number of actions aimed at the protection and purification of the lake: equiped the beach, supplied it with sand, drained away dirty water that was flowing fromthe road.

  Participants grades or age: 8-11 grades. But on the whole- we invite all who study chemistry and are interested in ecological problems.

  Date of the beginning: March 2000.

  Update: December 2000.

  Expected outcomes and products: extension of senior students’ chemical-ecological knowledge and skills, formation of students active ecological stand. The expected products haven’t been completely defined so far/for the time being. We’ll be glad to meet any suggestions of the participants!

  Project results for others and the planet: extension of true ecological information among various strata of society, increase of peoples’ anxiety about ecological situation, activization of nature-protecting activity of senior students and other people.

  Will individuals or classes take part in the project? - The participants themselves decide it. Both varients are possible.

  Project languages: Ukrainian, Russian.

  The author of the project: scientific consultant of the “Contemporary School” Pustovit Natalya Afanasiivna.

  The leader of the project: chemistry teacher, employee of the “Contemporary School” RMC; scientific worker of the ecological education laboratory of the Institute of the education problems of PSA (Pedagogical sciences Academy) of Ukraine - Yasynska Alla Mikhailivna. When sending in applications for the participation in the project, make a note “WATER” in the field “subject”.  

2000/2001 

• Star Dust on the High boots
• Mark Twain: from the Mississippi to the Dnipro
• ‘I feel happy when… I feel sad when…’
• Summer of the Passing Millennium
• My embroidered Ukraine
• For the Native Language Purity
• Foreign Outstanding Figures in the Names of the Streets and Squares of Your Town
• Elections and the Choice
• Ukrainians in the Internet
• How to Become a Champion of the Olympic games in the Shortest Time
• History of Informatics for those who are Curious
 
Name of the project: Star Dust on the High boots 

Web-page

The main idea of the project: it allows children to express their fantasies and imagination, their creative activity
Brief description: the participants of the project create a novel. All schools-participants write their chapter one by one and illustrate it.
The coordinating school writes the first chapter
Age: 8-11 grades/formers
Project start: October 1, 2000
Project finishes: April 1, 2001
Expected results and products: to give children possibility to express their fantasy and creative ability. Creation of the web-site and the book /if possible/
Are individuals or whole classes going to be involved in the project: creative groups.
Approximate number of participants needed for successful realization of the project / max and min /: 3-5 groups
E-mail, telephone number, fax and address of the coordinator / or the person to contact /: Edward Vasilenko, star@iic.donetsk.ua.
(062) 338-17-47

Mark Twain: from the Mississippi to the Dnipro

Dear friends! Let us introduce the second project of School № 9 from Fastiv, Kyiv region 

Name of the project: Mark Twain: from the Mississippi to the Dnipro.

Brief description: Exciting adventures in the Internet with a map of life events and traveling routes of Mark Twain – an outstanding American writer (America, Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia ) – will help both students and teachers to study his life and works. Students from different countries will find WEB-sites and museums, create a virtual map, write short stories and tales, draw pictures and illustrations and bring forward a project of “ Monument of Friendship”.

Full description of the project: Let’s travel through time and space! With the magic power of the Internet we are going to visit the banks of the Mississippi river and a lot of other places in the world where Mark Twain lived and worked. Let’s write letters to students of the same age who live in the places where our favorite writer once lived and worked. Tom Sawyers from America, Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia, respond to us! Let’s make a map of Mark Twain’s travelings (colorful, with pictures, with symbolic)! Imagine yourself in the world of Mark Twain’s heroes. What would you like to speak about with Tom, Becky and Heck? Introduce these heroes in pictures, illustrations! Imagine that you are a beginning writer (Samuel Clemens -Mark Twain – also experienced this feeling of being the beginner and making the very first steps)! Write a story about any of your childhood episodes in any genre.

Age: 12 years and older

Project starts: October 15,2000

Project finishes: October 31, 2001

Activities to be used: Search in the Internet, writing of short stories, art works, correspondence with different museums of the world.

Expected results and products: WEB-site, collected stories.

Project importance for other people and the world: To help people to understand each other better, to see the peculiarities and unique nature of every country.

Languages: English, Russian and Ukrainian.

School subjects and sciences involved: literature, geography, arts.

Coordinator (person to contact) - e-mail, telephone number, address 

Lyudmila Korovyakina ( Ukraine),- datskov@ukrpack.net

 Svitlana Siptarova (Ukraine),- datskov@ukrpack.net

I*EARN forum or conference – hasn’t been produced as yet

WEB-site: doesn’t exist /so far/

 

 

“I feel happy when… I feel sad when…”

Name of the project: “ I feel joy when… I feel sad when…”

The main idea of the project: with the help of a computer mouse and traditional drawing techniques participants create a picture gallery; the project is aimed at arousing children’s interest in expressing their emotions, formation of considered attitude to the surroundings, ability to ‘dive’ / to dip / into the depth of their hearts, plunging into the world of their own perceptions, to bring their personal ideas, expectations and hopes to other people, using expressive art devices, both traditional and modern instruments, computers including.

Brief description of the project: creation of the art exhibition of children’s compositions, which reflect their emotional world with all its joys and sorrows. Children express their emotions by means of artistic creative work.

Age: 7-14 years old

Project starts: October 1, 2000

Project finishes: May 1, 2001

Expected results and products: creation of the WEB-site with children’s drawings on definite subjects and with analytical articles of a teacher-painter, a psychoanalyst, a psychologist.

Possible consequences of the results of the project to other people in the world: to give children a possibility to express their fantasy and creative imagination .The analysis of children’s drawings will show their world to the adults, the world which is so different from that of the grown ups; will help them to understand or at any rate to get closer to the problems which children often try to hide away or keep in the depth of their hearts. Such drawings is the way out in the sphere of sub consciousness problems, a therapeutic, sanitation method which free children, method which has been acknowledged in the world for a long time and is called ‘ art therapy ‘, artistic therapy by means of art. This is a valuable material for parents, teachers, psychologists and doctors. While drawing his picture for the project ‘I feel joy when…’, a child shares his emotions with everybody who will see it, his positive emotions, in such a way presenting this world with a part of his kind, light, joyful ‘the I/ the ego ‘ by means of drawing giving this world the energy of light and kindness. After analyzing these drawings adults may obviate the reasons for pain and sorrow in children’s hearts, may improve the world children come to and where they spend their childhood. It’s in the power of grown ups to make the world of childhood happy, but they should be reminded about that more often.

Are individuals or classes going to be involved: both

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

Coordinator: a painter- teacher Natalya Vitaliivna Volodina-Panchenko.

 

 

Summer of the Passing Millennium…

The first bell of the new 2000-2001 school year has already rung. But the recollections of the wonderful summer of the passing millennium will remain in our memory for a long time. For some people summer is connected with unforgettable, joyful and exciting holidays, for school leavers – it is the first step into the new world of grown-ups, for others – it is a good chance to think over the problems and dreams they would like to put into life. So we’re sure you’ll have something to tell us about, since there is no summer without adventures… But adults are also invited to tell any interesting summer story from their childhood and compare it with the situations you got into this summer… (And mind – even the famous Maldini agreed to tell us about his adventures!)

Name of the project: Summer of the Passing Millennium. 

The main idea: to create a magazine of impressions about the last summer of the Millennium. For it happens only once in thousand years!

The aim: to exchange interesting adventures you had this summer with students of your age. You may present your works in prose, poems, photos, comics and pictures.

Age: age, color of the eyes and shoes size are of no importance.

Stages: 1-st: September 1, 2000 – December 31, 2001.Participants send their stories about adventures of summer of the passing Millennium 

Update: May 2001 – presentation of the magazine.

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian and English.

Result: a booklet with the stories of summer 2000.

Coordinator of the project: Tetiana Sporinina, a teacher of informatics, mailto: chgym@users.univers.cv.ua

Our address: Gymnasium №2, 73 Golovna str., 73, 58000, Cernivtsi.

 

 

My embroidered  Ukraine

Dear friends! We are introducing the first project of School №168, Kyiv.

Name of the project: My embroidered Ukraine. (Let’s embroider the map of Ukraine together).

The main idea: to get acquainted with embroidery techniques in different regions of Ukraine, to extend the knowledge of folklore, to show the variety of Ukrainian embroidery.

Brief description of the project: Let’s show the beauty of our country with the variety of embroidery techniques and colors. For that we suggest that every school should embroider (with the technique of its region) a part of our common map. Participants of the project will be sent parts of the regions (a region or some regions) from the map of Ukraine. If you wish you might   send historical information and folklore connected with this process. The map and photos of the participants will be presented at the 8-th International I*EARN Conference, which will be held in South Africa.

Stages: 1-st – collection of the information about schools, applications of the participating groups. 2-nd – schools’ stories about the technique of embroidery in their regions, folk stories (songs, retellings etc). 3-rd – preparation of the embroidery plot. 4-th – embroidery and then sending them to the coordinator.

Age: 6-9 formers.

Project starts: October 2000.

Project finishes: May 2001.

Expected results and products: Embroidered map of Ukraine.

WEB-site

Are individuals or classes going to be involved into the project: groups of students, classes.

Approximate number of participants needed for the successful realization: 4-5 schools.

Languages: Ukrainian and Russian.

Coordinators: Larisa Petrivna Shevchouk, Tetyana Leonodivna Yurchouk – Kyiv, tel. 412-10-41.

e-mail: sch168@sch-168.edu.kiev.ua, topic/theme: Map of Ukraine.

 

 

For the Native Language Purity. 

Our Ukraine has become free and independent. Today we are building our future ourselves and hope that we’ll soon live the life we deserve being a highly cultured nation with its glorious past and good prospects. Development of culture and technique favor the material enrichment of the country, its prosperity. But don’t forget about spiritual life the center of which is the native language. Tortured and insulted it has survived and is going to blossom out with shoots of new luxuriance. And we must love it, just like children love their mother, protect from any hostility and evil-wishes. Let’s try to do it together! For we are strong and clever! We are Ukrainians - the  heirs of glorious and courageous people! We’ll overcome the obstacles and purify the source of people’s well, and our language will shine with rainbow colors, as the symbol of unconquered Ukrainian people.

Name of the project: For the native language purity.

The main idea: Students find mistakes in the periodicals, announcements, applications, advertisements and goods labels etc., which don’t correspond to the demands of the modern Ukrainian literary language; and then send them with correct variants for the next stage of the project. As a result a selection of materials is going to be published, with all the mistakes corrected and explained. Such research work will contribute to the process of purifying of our native language and the development of not indifferent attitude of young people to it.

Description of the project: every day we look through announcements, adverts, read goods labels, newspapers, magazines, information in the Internet etc. Unfortunately such information is not always written by literate people. Such a number of mistakes leads to the contamination of the language space, to the loss of its purity. Our project is for those who are not indifferent to this problem and who are ready to join this work aimed at preservation of the native language of the Ukrainian people. Participants of the project must pay attention to any mistakes and linguistic negligence made in adverts, announcements, applications and labels, in periodicals, on WEB-sites etc. and send the corresponding materials (photos are allowed too) with all the drawbacks corrected, for the next stage of the project. On the grounds of the collected material a booklet will be published. We’ll try to systematize all the data we get from you, explain the character of the mistakes you find and give the correct variant. Participants of the project will get these booklets and some scientific-methodic literature as a prize from the ‘Prosvita’ society.

Age: 11 years old and older.

Dates: October 15, 2000 – October 31, 2001.

Activities to be used: research work on WEB-sites, in newspapers, magazines etc.

Expected results: a booklet.

Importance of the project for other people and the world: this project will contribute to preservation of the most valuable treasure of the Ukrainian people – its native language, and the planet won’t lose one of its most melodious colorings. 

Language: Ukrainian.

Subject space: everything we are surrounded by.

Coordinator /instructor: Nadiya Myckolaiivna Pisetska – Lviv Academical Gymnasium the highest category Ukrainian teacher.

E-mail: lag@polynet.lviv.ua

 

 

Foreign Outstanding Figures in the Names of the Streets and Squares of your Town.

 Dear friends! The project we present is the result of the work in the project ‘The Czechs in Ukraine’. While studying the history of Kharkiv we found out that not only the names of the Czechs figures were imprinted in the history of our city. Gete and Rose Luxemburg, Hasheck and Mate Zalka  left their traces in its history. We are sure that in the history of your town there are also some pages ‘written’ by people of other nations.

Name of the project: Foreign outstanding figures in the names of the streets and squares of your town.

Brief description of the project: in many towns of the world streets are given the names of the people, who made a great contribution to the development of these towns, the country or to the whole world. Sometimes the compatriots of these people even don’t suspect that their fellow-country man is honored and remembered somewhere abroad in foreign land. Let’s tell each other about these people to feel that our world is an entity and every nation leaves its trace in the life of other peoples. 

Full description of the project: Participants send descriptions of the streets, squares and other sights of their town, which have the names of outstanding foreign figures, tell about interesting facts connected with this street or the man whose name it has. You may also add some photos.

Age: isn’t limited.

Dates: November 1, 2000 – October 31, 2001

Expected results: printed and Internet selection of stories and photos.

Importance of the project for the other people and the world: to help people from different countries to see common things in their history, to understand that state frontiers do not separate people.

Languages: English, Russian and Ukrainian.

Coordinators: Marina Kornienko – marina@lkto.ki.snet.kharkov.ua, Alexey Serdyuk. Marina Kornienko – Coordinator I*EARN School № 55, Kharkiv, Ukraine, e-mail: marina@lkto.ki.snet.kharkov.ua, tel.: (0572) 67-48-32.

       

 

Elections and the Choice.

Name of the project: Elections and the Choice.

The main idea of the project: Give participants a possibility to retrace the history of the origin of elections, the execution of elections, the difference between elections in countries of developed democracy, countries which are being democratically modernized and in the countries with commanding-administrative system of government, positive and negative sides of elections. The peculiarities of Ukrainian electoral system. Formation of personal attitude to and opinion about elections. 

Brief description of the project: the project has 4 stages: - 1-st – history of elections learning; 2-nd – participants learn and compare electoral systems in countries with developed democracy, countries which are being democratized with countries of commanding –administrative system of government, define positive and negative sides of elections; 3 – electoral system in Ukraine – its peculiarities, merits and demerits; 4 – participants write a short essay expressing their personal attitude to elections  and their opinion about them.

Class and age: 8-10 formers.

Project starts: September 15, 2000

Project finishes: April 15, 2001.

Expected results and products: creation of the WEB-site and printed materials.

Importance of the project for the others and the world: participants will have a chance to get to know more about elections, to continue studying and get additional information in one of the school subject – the Constitution of Ukraine and human rights.

Are individuals or classes going to be involved: individuals, creative groups and classes.

Approximate number of participants needed for successful realization of the project (min and max): 3-7 schools.

Languages: Russian and Ukrainian.

E-mail, telephone number, fax and address of the coordinator: Edward Vasilenko, tel. (062) 338-17-47, electoral@iic.donetsk.ua. 

 

 

Ukrainians in the Internet

Dear friends! We introduce this project which is called ‘Ukrainians in the Internet’ and which was discussed in Simferopil, where Yury Romaneneko added some materials to it as to the creation of I*EARN forum in the Ukrainian language. From my side the project data were given as a booklet-information to the members of the International Conference of Ukrainian Doctors held in Lviv in summer.

Name of the project: ‘Ukrainians in the Internet’

Brief description of the project: the project is aimed at creation of an educational network for schools in Ukraine and Ukrainian schools, Sunday schools, different children and teenagers    organizations of the Diaspora, for them to correspond in the Ukrainian language.

Stages of the project: 1-st: participants collect some brief information about the school (organization) both in Ukrainian and English with the address and E-mail indicated. If this school (organization) has no E-mail it’s possible to give an address in the Internet where to send messages. Send all the information to this address: e-mail: lag@polynet.lviv.ua; 2-nd: creation of the Internet-service for ensuring and coordinating the project; 3-rd: creation of I*EARN forum in Ukrainian. Organization of real conferences, meetings, seminars, summer camps for the participants of the project.

Age: 10 years and older, teachers, educators and principals of schools and organizations for children and teenagers.

Dates: ongoing.

Languages: Ukrainian and English.

Coordinators: Nadiya Mayorchak and Nina Dementievska.

Project makers: Victor Shvets and Grygory Mayorchak

 

 

How to become a champion of the Olympics 

Web-site of the project

 Name of the project: how to become a champion of the Olympics (a lab work in physics ‘Determination of free incidence acceleration’).

The main idea of the project: to increase students’ interest in physics, formation of teachers and scientists online creative working group through discussing the preconditions and performing a lab work in physics common for all, in accordance with school curriculum.

Brief description of the project: everybody knows that a man can jump much higher and longer on the Moon. The reason for that is gravity. Although even on the Earth it’s different in different places. So let’s measure together the free incidence acceleration in our regions and define the best place for sport trainings (where the acceleration is the biggest) and for competitions (where it’s the least) in Ukraine. We suggest that we should do such a lab work together, compare and analyze the results and make some recommendations for the National Olympic Committee. Don’t you want to help Sergiy Boubka and other our Olympians?

Age: 9-11 formers

Project starts: November 2000

Project finishes: April 2001

Expected results and products: an article in a magazine, publication.

Are individuals or classes going to be involved: classes/

Approximate number of participants: 3 and more.

Languages: Ukrainian and Russian

E-mail, telephone, fax and address of the coordinator of the project: Nina Dementievska, Kyiv, 2, Ozerna str.,’ Modern School’ /’Suchasna shkola’  RMC , 

Tel/fax (044) 412-10-62, smc@mail.kar.net

 

 

History of Informatics for those who are curious

Name of the project: ‘History of Informatics for those who are curious.

The main idea of the project: to draw children in more diverse acquaintance with known and unknown events in the history of Informatics.

Brief description: participants collect interesting, exciting and cognitive information connected with the history of Information; a virtual journey with the help of the Internet into the countries and cities where the founders of Informatics lived and worked; visits to corresponding sites, search of information in the Internet, establishing links with museums, collecting materials about interesting moments in the development of Cybernetics and Informatics. 

Age: 13-17 years old.

Project starts:October1, 2000

Project finishes: May 1, 2001

Expected results and products of activity: possibility of exchanging useful and interesting information on the history of Informatics, extension of knowledge in geography, history, English, obtaining good skills for work with different services of the Internet. Creation of the WEB-site and CD ‘History of Informatics for those who are curious’

Importance of the project for other people and the world: collected materials can be used at the lessons and out-of-school hours of informatics, geography and history. Communication of children and teachers of different countries and continents

Are individuals or classes going to be involved: classes, groups of students and individuals

Approximate number of the participants: 3 and more

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian and English.

E-mail, telephone, address of the coordinator of the project: datskov@ukrpack.net, Natalya Anatoliivna Ripko, a teacher of informatics, School № 9, Fastiv.