Programa Comenius, We play we learn

1. «WE PLAY, WE LEARN»
COMENIUS PROJECT
2012/2014
FRANCE
POLAND
TURKEY
SPAIN

2. LOGOS

4.  Our main aim is to create new teaching
strategies using games as a didactic tool.
Game increases mental capacities and
creativity. It also promotes communication,
socialization and cooperation.
OUR AIMS
 Trying to encourage pupils to take part in the
educative process.
 Promoting interdisciplinar teachers
teamwork to create our games.
 To rescue popular games in order to learn
about the lore and traditions of other
cultures, to increase tolerance and European
knowledge.

5. ART DEPARMENT
ACTIVITIES WITH
YOUNGER
PUPILS
11-12 years old

6. ACTIVITIES IN CLIL
ART-ENGLISH CLASS

7. MATERIALS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR
DRAWING AND PAINTING
We invent different games with cards that are representing art tools and activities

8. LOOKING FOR YOUR PAIR
We deal pairs of the same image for pupils and they have to ask question in
order to find who has his/her match.

9. ACTION PAINTING ACTIVIT Y
(JACKSON POLLOCK)
In group, pupils create a
painting by dropping colours
over a canvas.

10. PLAYING WITH CARDS ABOUT LINES,
SHAPES, COLOR, TEXTURES
In order to get to
know the
elements of
art, we play with
cards with images
which represent
different kinds of
lines, shapes, textu
res and colour

11. DRAWING MUSIC
Af ter showing dif ferent kinds of
lines and how it is used by
ar tist, pupils will listen to some
pieces of music which they will
have to interpret drawing lines

12. ESCHER TESSELATION

13. COLOR WHEEL ACTIVIT Y
 It is a fun way to teach the
primary, secondary, and
tertiary colors in order to do
a color wheel
 Pupils place a drop of each
colour onto the corresponding
dot on the paper.

14.  Pupils mix the colors in
each circle using a
toothpick for each
circle.
 Once all the circles of
color are mixed
together, place a paper
towel over the paper.

15. ABSTRACTION

16. CUBISM PORTRAIT
After
explaining
what is
cubism,
pupils will
make their
own self
portrait

17. ACTIVITIES IN ART
CLASS

18. WE MAKE PUZZLES
1º E.S.O
12-13 years

19. -Individual work
-Material: paper
- We learn to draw parallel
lines, perpendicular lines and to build
cubes..
-We design puzzles of
flags, coins, celebrities…

22. LITERATURE AND ART
TRADITIONALS TALES.
CALIGRAMS

23. WE PLAY WITH TALES
-Individual work
-Material: newspaper, cloth and glue
-We read a story ,(this story is about the
gender violence) then we talk and
reflect about the plot
-We create puppets
-We work the volume

24. WE MAKE PUPPETS

25. WE ALSO MAKE
ILLUSTRATIONS
 Material: paper and
coloured pencils

26. Description of the activity:
Work in groups of three or four students
Based on “El juego de la oca” (a Spanish
traditional board game), we create boards
that allow us to play and learn traditions
(bullfighting, fallas,…) and monuments of
our country

28. CREATIVE T YPOGRAPHY
PLAYING WITH LETTERS

30. CATALAN CALIGRAMS
M I X I N G T R A D I TI O N AL VA L E N C I A N I C O N O G R A P H Y A N D P O E M S TO M A K E A P I C T U R E .

31. SAYINGS AND APHORISMS
 In literature classes, pupils do a little research of traditional
sayings and aphorisms.
 They share the knowledge they ´ve found.
 Then they do representations for the whole class of a saying
by reciting it.
 Other pupils in the class can draw the meaning of the saying
that is presented.
 That´s how integration between two subjects happens

32. ART AND HISTORY
ACTIVITIES RELATED
WITH ART HISTORY
Pupils will know through their
works,different artistic styles and
famous painters

33. TABLEAU VIVANT
 Pupils must
choose a
picture
which they
feel
identified
with. Af ter
studying the
ar tist, they
have to dress
like the
people in the
image and to
pose like
them.
 The final
work is to
film this
actions by
stop motion.

34. KNOWING FAMOUS PAINTERS
Pupils choose a picture. Have to find information about the picture
and to do an index card: time, author, technique, place where it
is, size, personal opinion,…
So, they have to do an interpretation cutting color papers.

35. TRADITIONAL GAMES AND ART
There are many painters
who have used the game
as a subject of their art.
Pupils have to look for
artists who do that and
investigate them

36. TUTORSHIP
ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE
COEXISTENCE AND GOOD
RELATIONSHIPS

37. FLOWERS INSTEAD OF
TOMATOES
Pupils have to draw a flower for each
par tner in the class writing a
compliment of each other in the back
side. Af ter painting and cutting
them, they give them to each other

38. EMOTIONS
Students play
with colours
and give them
a shape which
shows the
feelings that
those colours
have arisen in
them.

39. ART DEPARTMENT
ACTIVITIES FOR OLDER
PUPILS
14/17 years old

40. PLAYING WITH LINE
Without getting up the pencil from the paper, draw in a free style

41. PLAY IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART
This work is focused mainly on determining the bonds that exist among play and art in these
days. This relation has its origin in the historical avant-garde movements. In search of the
new and guided by their transgressor spirit, these movements, cause the artists to
recuperate for art the concept of play

42. INTERPRETATION

43. COLLAGE

44. POLITICAL AND SOCISAL CRITISIM

45. DESIGN: URBAN SIGNALS
Pupils have to look for another
concept for traditional
meanings
Banning signals about current social crisis

46. SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND HUMANS RIGTHS

47. PLAYING WITH COMPOSITION
Pupils choose three or four elements (letters or shapes) and
changing the colour, size and the way, they have to organize
them to get dif ferent kinds of compositions (stability, chaos,
depth, connection, movement )

48. PLAYING WITH THE PLANE
- Individual work
-Material: paper
-We start with a modular network, we
make cuts and set up the
paper, thus, we pass from the plane to
the volume

50. -Work in groups
-Material: cardboard pen
-Each student creates a
module individually, this
module changes its
size, shape and color.
-We put them together and
create a mural composition .

53.  - All the pupils make a mural
on wall
 -Material: insulating tapes of
dif ferent colours

54. LANGUAGE
GAMES IN ENGLISH
CLASS

55. LANGUAGE GAMES (3R ESO)
 The teacher introduces new food
words.
 In pairs, students choose 10
new words and write them
scrambled on pieces of paper.
 The pieces of paper are handed
out to another pair.
 Now they must unscramble and
guess the new words.

56. We use also traditional oral
games using rythm to learn
new words (whole class
activity).
We play guessing games to
know what food is our mate
thinking about, using new
words.(e,g.Can you boil it?)
Then pupils make posters in
teams of three.

59. Then they write their
recipes.
Finally, they record
their recipes or
explain them in
class in three steps:
ingredients, kitchen
utensils, process.

60. .MILK PUDDING.
 -HOB
 -CASSEROLE
 -WOODEN SPOON
 -GLASS BOWL

61. SPANISH OMELETTE
 4 eggs
 1/2 kilos of potatoes
 Olive oil
 Salt

62. IRREGULAR VERBS BOARD GAME (3R
ESO- 2ND BACC)
Two against two game.
Six tokens are placed at each end of
the board, in each square.
Dice are thrown and tokens are
moved. Pupils must know the three
forms of the verb in the box or lose
their turn to the other team.
If two counters fall in the same box,
they must begin again.
Pupils must cross the board and
reach the other end with their
counters.
Of course, level of difficulty can be
adjusted to pupils’.

63. AGREE-DISAGREE GAME

64. PHYSICAL EDUCATION

65. JUMPING ROPE ACTIVITIES

66. GAMES
Pupils are compiling traditional games
Pupils are design questions for the trivial