EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS

Leonardo da Vinci has always attracted the students' fantasy: his studyings and his inventions have proved, through the centuries, the genius ability to carefully observe the natural phenomena and the important solutions he proposed to overcome the difficulties his contemporaries found impossible to face.
His genius wandered from poetry to painting, to engineering and building startegies. His flying machines  have a fascinating charme and they are valid yet. All together, studying his solutions might enrich our students today....

Laura Pausini is a really famous singer and her powerful voice has enchanted people all around the world. Her career started really early but she has been able to travel the world and take part in extremely interesting shows. Two girls have tried to penetrate her secrets and to share them with us all

Two boys have worked around a very famous influencer who had to revise her targets during last year: Ms Chiara Ferragni.
Plenty of youngsters are infuelced by these characters and they are convinced that life can give you all the best with a relly small effort, money comes from everywhere and no effort is asked to reach one's own targets....
This is not true and the Ferragni late events in life are a testimony of it.

Two girls are dealing with Enzo Ferrari and his ideas about racing cars, producing them and organizing international competitions. His life was dedicated to his Scuderia and plenty of people admired his cars. He was successful but his life was filled by different difficult moments. He had to evercome  personal tragedies as well as the loss of some important colleagues who had helped the growth of his activities.

Interviewing a genius living in the past might be challenging... but Angela was able to give him a good voice and answered all the questions her Spanish friend asked. They awakened our students' curiosity and studying the past became easier than before.

Some of the students were really interested in education and began to  reflect on Maria Montessori, the Italian pedagogist, first doctor in Italy, who upset the education methods and placed the child at the centre of the experience, the teacher was only a director, preparing a stimulating environment which would give the child a strong sense of awareness and self-confidence.

The Italian students in Istituto Comprensivo Sacconi and their friends from Santa Maria de Huerva in SPAIN, have cooperated to produce some impossible interviews.
They start  dealing with Bebe Vio, a fantastic champion who loves fencing but also running and dancing. She is a super-girl who has changed many people's lives with her good disposition, her  humor and her strength.
Plenty of disabled children are following her example and try to overcome their disabilities, finding new targets... a new life!

Going to school might be a very tiring duty.
The students are curious to know how their new friends' school day is organized, if their lessons are more varied or better distributed and if the rules to follow in their school are lighter or less imposing.
Each one discovers that no school is free of rules. Some of the students feel the rules light while others consider the same extremely heavy and cumbersome!!!

Food is always a good topic to deal with, some students are really eager to know more about the eating habits of their new friends... being far from home implies the necessity to adapt and discover new flavors, dishes and smells. Sometimes these changes might be challenging.
Some teenagers find it difficult to adapt and taste new specialities while others are looking for new experiences... let's enjoy their conversations!

Talking about personal lives is always the simplest way to find a connection: students have a limited number of common experiences, they try to find the common fields and build their relationship from there... It is quite cklear listening to their conversations! Enjoy!