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**Project name: Creative Mind Mapping Stories**

**Details:**
 * This is a project in which pupils from RHS Lebanon and Trevelyan Middle School in the U.K. are asked to produce a collaborative story using different media in order to explore each other’s cultures and countries. In this way, they can also discover aspects of their own cultures that they never thought about previously.
 * The story can be designed to reach certain literature and language-based skills; however, it is also an opportunity to integrate other disciplines - such as, art, geography, history and ICT.
 * Pupils first agree on a common scenario and create characters that will be travelling throughout their countries. To do so they use mind mapping collaborative tools in order to brainstorm and articulate characters’ personality traits in an effective and comprehensive way.
 * In parallel, they gather general information about their partners’ cultures, countries and hometowns. They also ask their partners more specific information about their cultures and customs in order to be as accurate as possible.
 * The mind mapping technique is used throughout the project to help them articulate all the gathered information and build their collaborative story