Italy_planning_grid_1st_year_MyIdealTown

1. KA 2 – “Steps of Citizenship”
ITALY - ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO CAMERANO Planning Grid
Target students Classes: IIA, IIB, IIC
Students aged 13
Time
25 hours January – February –March 2015
Teachers involved Teachers of Italian, Geography, History, English
Authentic Task
Product/output
Realization of the map of the “ideal city” and multimedial presentation of the activitites.
COMPETENCES
To acquire and to interpet information
To research, gather and elaborate datas, information and concepts
To build presentations using both traditional instruments and ICT
To develop linguistic skills in English
Learning objectives Skills Contents Attitude/Behaviour
a) Using reading strategies to
analyze the content of a text
b) searching for information in
different texts
c) being able to interpret and to
compare landscapes and their
features
a) knowledge of one’s own territory
b) knowledge of different
landscapes’ features (rural,
urban….)
c) knowledge if different kinds of
maps
a) Curiosity
b) Cooperation
c) Creativity
Prerequisites 1) Orientation in one’s own 1) knowledge of a topographic map 1) Being able to cooperate

2. town
2) Orientation on a map
3) Creating symbols for a map
legend
2) knowledge of what a map legend is
3) knowledge of the meaning of
“ideal”
2) Accepting assignments
3) Respect
Teacher’s task
(and materials/tools used)
Students’ task
(and materials/tools used)
PHASE 1
Time: 2 h
Place: classroom
Objectives:
Interpreting a written
document
Presentation of the project: name, teachers, subjects
involved and duration.
-Reading of the text: the students in circle are given
the photocopy of the passage “La città e la memoria.
Maurilia” ( “City and Memory – Maurilia”) from “Le
città invisibili” (“Invisible Cities”, chapter V) by Italo
Calvino (an Italian journalist and writer of short
stories and novels). The teacher reads the passage.
The teacher leads the comprehension of the text and
the comments about “Maurilia”, past and present. The
teacher leads a short discussion about the changes
that have taken place over the years in Camerano.
Students listen and read the text. They participate in
the discussion about the city described, focusing on
the differences between the past Maurilia and the
present Maurilia. They talk about their own town
and how it has changed over the years.
PHASE 2
Time: 2 h
Place: classroom
Objectives: interpreting
iconographic sources
The teacher shows paintings of the “ideal city” on the
interactive whiteboard, pointing out the author, the
historic period and the place they are on display
today. The teacher leads a discussion about the
understanding of iconographic sources, trying to
make students think about the features
characterizing the cities of the past, through
questions. Iconographic sources:
- “Città Ideale” , unknown author , 1480 -1490
Students observe the pictures and reflect on the
features about the cities represented (space,
background, foreground, types of buildings,
people..….).

3. (Urbino, National Gallery of Marche);
- “Veduta della Città Ideale” (“The Ideal City”,
Walters Art Museum of Baltimore);
- “Veduta di città ideale” (Berlin Gemaldegalerie)
PHASE 3
Time: 1 h
Place: classroom
Objectives:
- interpreting
photographs;
- comparing;
The teacher invites students to search for pictures
(internet, family pictures…) of their own town in the
present and in the past. The pictures are displayed on
the interactive whiteboard and students are asked to
compare them.
Students compare photos of their own town in the
past and in the present and focus on positive and
negative aspects both in the past and in the present.
PHASE 4
Time: 2h
Place: classroom
Objectives:
- To gather data
- To develop critical
thinking
GROUPWORK
The teacher creates the groups and hands out a
survey questionnaire about fashionable and
unfashionable places in Camerano (i.e. what’s the
place you like most for your free time? Which place
would you like to have in your town?...)
GROUPWORK
Each student fills in the questionnaire, explicating the
places for an ideal town, and discusses about it within
the group. Then each group hands out the survey
questionnaire to all the other classes of the institute
and results are illustrated through histograms.
PHASE 5
Time: 2 hours
Objectives: finding out and
comparing implicit and
explicit information
The teacher guides a discussion about the data
gathered.
Data gathering and results presentation using the
Interactive Whiteboard. Within each group students
share the data obtained by the class and propose new
places for the ideal town on the base of the survey
results.
PHASE 6
Time: 4h
Objectives:
GROUPWORK
The teacher shows students different kinds of maps
and makes them notice the differences. Then the
Students, in group, create their own Ideal City
indicating on the blank map, through the use of a map
legend planned by themselves, the outdoor and indoor

4. - To use geographic
instruments and
language;
- orientation in space
teacher gives each group a blank topographic map of
Camerano and asks students to fill it in with places
through the creation of a map legend.
places thought in the previous phase.
PHASE 7
Time: 2h
Place: classroom
Objectives: presenting works
The teacher guides a discussion about the final
outputs.
Each group makes a presentation of their own work to
the other groups and to all the classes involved in the
project.
PHASE 8
Time: 10 h
Place: computer room
Objectives: creating a CD
The teacher coordinates the preparation of a
multimedial product: presentation/Video
Students create a multimedial product:
presentation/video
EVALUATION TEST
Self- evaluation , through a test, to highlight students motivation, their capacity to work in group and the
acquired knowledge.