Mondovi: a treasure hunt to switch from Medium to high school – TargatoCn.it

How to make the transition from middle school to high school as natural and serene as possible? How to shape a “welcome” training, solid in its intention to wish a good schooling superior to all new students, proactive regarding the inventiveness and resourcefulness, education through its academic system? How to win this great and all obvious challenge?

Here is the answer of the Liceo Beccaria-Vasco-Govone of Mondovi: organize a trip socializing and a treasure hunt in school buildings, on the basis scientific and literary.

The first was held in Chiusa Pesio with the massive participation of all classes of the first, the second was a treasure hunt atypical, interactive and technology, held at the headquarters of the State High School “Vasco-Beccaria -Govone “, which was attended by teams of rowdy kids and volitional, belonging to the first classes of the institute.

The teams competed in a race at the last stroke of genius, not against the clock, then, but against tests and games based on scientific knowledge and literary. Here reside the novelty and the goal to achieve: learn while having fun. Objective developed after two long hours of continuous research through the corridors and countless stairs of the institute, a maze without a map for the children first, which, in fact, did not have a couple of phones and a pen.

A few instruments, but effective, because the very organization of the challenge was based on new technological applications, that opened the dance a series of clues in the form of QR, a two-dimensional bar code consists of modules arranged blacks within a square pattern. It, for those who ignore the existence, is used to store information, links and digital content, generally intended to be read by a smartphone. A treasure hunt 2.0 short.

So, our brave explorers, including arduous mathematical riddles, frantic search of celebrities, pages of old books listless voraciously, she daring ran through the corridors in search of lost shots (followed by the reproaches of the janitors and the surprised faces of the other students), including rare samples of rocks and small tools of chemical and crossword pitfall, have come close to the school environment and offers materials there, bringing with them a wave of genuine curiosity, joy and desire to get in Game.

The whole activity was carried out in the best way possible and what still lingers in the air, it is the priceless feeling of deep satisfaction on the part of teachers, accompanied by small, sincere smiles of many new high school.

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