Topic suggestions /integration with other subjects

Health education

Educational videos:

Showing and teaching how to…

- give first aid

- treat a sprained ankle

- make healthy life choices (eating, sleeping, exercising etc…)

- make your living environment safe (eg "Dos and don’ts to minimize the risk of accidents at home"

- stay safe in traffic (dos and don’ts)

- build habits that have a positive effect on studying and learning (dos and don’ts)

- how to get over a net/game addiction (eg: A story of how game addiction affected someone's life) and how s/he managed to overcome it)

Biology

- "The four seasons in Finland"

- an excursion to a nearby forest to get footage for later; editing the final video in spring

- How to live and act in an environmentally friendly way?
- Water in our lives


Geography:

- "My trip around the world"

- presenting sights, nature, animals, culture, customs etc

- an imaginary story with pictures (+ meeting and talking to ”locals” = dialogues, interviews) using blue screen technique to get foreign cities and landscapes in the background

History

 

- presenting a historical event (eg: students acting out using blue screen technique; animation: using barbies)

- interviewing an important historical figure or an ordinary person linked to a certain historical period (using blue screen technique)

eg: 19^th century/industrial revolution : the inventors of the steam engine or the light bulb etc; a slave on a cotton plantation in the Deep South of the USA; a Finnish emigrant in USA; a native American (Indian) in a reservation in America; a factory worker in a cotton mill in Britain; a miner in a coal mine in Britain

- preparation: finding out about the period, what life was like; why those people had to do/live as they did; studying the causes and consequences

 

Home economics:

- how to cook a certain dish

- how to make healthy snacks

 

Technical work / textiles:

- how to make a ….. (during the lessons, film the process of making a product!)

 

Physical education

- how to keep fit

- how to play…

- how to train…

 

Social skills:

- how to beat bullies / how to help and support a person who is being bullied / how to make friends (using finger puppets, barbies, dinosaurs or students acting out)

- how to overcome stage fright / how to gain self-confidence

- good manners at school (Dos and don'ts)

- how to help people / classmates/ parents

- how to brighten up somebody's day (= ways to make somebody happy)

- empathy skills: telling the same story /showing the same incident from different perspectives or through the eyes of different people involved

 

Media literacy ( = Medialukutaito)

- creating an advertisement /commercial:

-"Joensuu for tourists"

-"Welcome to our school"

- advertising an imaginary product

 

Drama and creativity:
- a fairytale for children (students acting out or using barbies/finger puppets etc)

- a horror story (Halloween!)

- a scene from a soap (= saippuasarja)

 

Intercultural skills/learning about foreign cultures

- interviewing foreign exchange students or Finnish students who have been on an exchange

- interviewing other foreigners (eg immigrants or tourists) who live or are visiting here

 

Other topics:

- Pet care: "How to take care of your pet"
- Hobbies
- How to save money