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Information about
Module 2

Working Children

Name of Teachers:   
Susana Ramirez 
Patricio Vera 	                  
Patricia Vargas 	                  
Ramiro Aparicio 
Institution: Alalay 
Level or Grade:-------
Number of Participants: 60
Name of Module: Where Do I live?
 
 
1st. and 2nd.Lesson-(1st-4th week):
Can You Find Me?,Living Things Where I live
 
Programmed Activities for the Module
-Find out about the identity of our country facts, area, money, capital,etc)
-Differences of our country comparing to others
-Choose a town in Bolivia and describe its characteristics
-Make a list of important Holidays in our country
-Draw about a holiday using Paint program 
-Make a list of Bolivian food, then make a recipe of your favorite food
-Write to your online friends and ask them about where they live
-Visit our neighborhood and ask about the names of the streets,
why the name was given to them, is it a residential or a commercial neighborhood?
the good and the bad things of our neighborhood.
-Write a short story about our neighborhood
-Describe exactly the place where you live
-Make a drawing of your neighborhood
 
 
Curriculum Knowledge Areas
 
-History, geography, language, written expression and creativity
 
Improvement or expected pedagogical changes
 
-Learn about our country, its characteristics, customs,
legends,tipical food,dances,etc using the Internet as a search tool,
sharing and comparing information with participants from other countries.
-Improve students' writing and grammar
 
 
Programmed Work in the KHouse
-Find out about the identity of our country facts, area, money, capital,etc)
-Differences of our country comparing to others
-Choose a town in Bolivia and describe its characteristics
-Make a list of important Holidays in our country
-Make a list of Bolivian food, then make a recipe of your favorite food
-Write to your online friends and ask them about where they live
-Imagine and write a short story about our neighborhood
-Describe exactly the place where you live
-Make a Drawing of your neighborhood
 
 
Programmed activities out of the classroom
-Visit our neighborhood and ask about the names of the streets,
why the name was given to it, is it a residential or a commercial neighborhood?
the good and the bad things of my neighborhood.

	

	
Materials Needed
 
Notebooks, pencils, computers, printer
 


Escuela España

 
3rd lesson: 5th and 6th Week 
Places where I learn
 
Programmed Activities for the Module
 
-Investigate the history of your home and your school
-Find out how many teachers are in your school, how many of them are males 
and how many are females. Find out how many people work in the Home.
-Find out how many students there are in your class, age and gender. 
Then classify them on a Table with the answers to the questions.
Questions:
What is your favorite moment in school? Why?   
How many hours a day and how many days a week you go to school?
What do you learn in school, at home?
What is your favorite subject and why?
What do you like more about school and about home?
Do you learn in other places beside school and home? Where?
-Make a drawing of the places you learn. Could be school, library,
a place outside or any other place where you learn.
-Share information with your online friends
 
 
Curriculum Areas
 
-History, geography, language, written expression and creativity
 
Improvement or expected pedagogical changes
-Develop critical thinking in students
-Learn how important are school and home in the learning process
 
Programmed Work in the KHouse
 
-Type findings
Questions:
What is your favorite moment in school? Why?   
How many hours a day and how many days a week you go to school?
How long is the school year, when does it starts , when does it ends?
What do you learn at school, at home?
What is your favorite subject and why?
What do you like more about school and about home?
Where do you learn better, at school or at the Home?
Do you learn in other places beside school and the Home? Where?
If you could change your school or home , what would you change?
-Make a drawing of the places you learn. Could be school, library,
a place outside or any other place where you learn.
-Share information with your online friends

	
 
Programmed activities out of the classroom
 
-Investigate the history of your home and your school
-Find out how many teachers are in your school, how many of them are males 
and how many are females. Find out how many people work in the Home.
-Find out how many students there are in your class, age and gender. 
Then classify them on a Table.
 
 
Materials Needed: Notebooks, pencils, computers


Effort Day

 
4th. Lesson- 7th-8th Weeks: Our Global Village
 
Programmed Activities for the Module
 
-Investigate dances and musical instruments of our country
-Choose, draw and explain about your favorite folkloric costume
-Find out what other languages besides Spanish, are spoken in our country
-Find out the origins of our country's name
-Share information with our online friends
-Write a letter to a friend inviting him or her to visit our country,
describing your favorite places 
-Imagine what you would do for our country if you were Bolivia's President.
-Write a poem to our country, keeping in mind what you know about it.
-Find out about another country where you would like to live/
-Draw your favorite place in our country, describing it.
-Make a collage on Bolivia's map, using all the information you gathered 

	

	
Curriculum Areas
History, music, language, written expression, creativity
 
 
Improvement or expected pedagogical changes
-Value our cultural wealth
-Develop critical thinking
-Improve the writing process
-Develop our students skills and knowledge 

	
Programmed Work at the Institution or Classroom 

	
-Make a collage on Bolivia's map, using all the information you gathered 
 
 
Programmed Work in the KHouse
 
-Investigate dances and musical instruments of our country
-Choose, draw and explain about your favorite folkloric costume
-Find out what other languages besides Spanish, are spoken in our country
-Find out the origins of our country's name
-Share information with our online friends
-Write a letter to a friend inviting him or her to visit our country,
describing your favorite places
-Imagine what you would do for our country if you were Bolivia's President.
-Write a poem to our country, keeping in mind what you know about it.
-Find out about another country where you would like to live/
-Draw your favorite place in our country, describing it.
 
 
Materials Needed
 
Notebooks, pencils, construction paper,newspaper,paper glue, markers
 


Effort Day

 
EVALUATION OF THE 1ST.MODULE: Who Am I?
 
What success you had with this module?
-Children improved composition and writing 
-Improved self esteem level of children
-Good operation of computers by participants
-Improved personal development
-Learn to use Kidlink web page
-Good team work

	
 
What was the most relevant?
-Have access to a new tool computer)for kids as part of the learning process
-Reasoning of students toward the questions
-Motivation of participants toward the development of programmed activities.
 
 
Did you have difficulties? Which?
-Paternalism of teachers toward their students.
-Erased Works
-Difficulties in sending the first works to Kidlink pages.