<p>This activity tooked place last year as a part of a training and internship project (training year) and was developed thanks to the fruitful collaboration of the teacher with her tutor, especially for the co-design and ongoing evaluation of the achieved results.</p><p>The project has been carried out, in the same period, on two different classes characterized by widespread liveliness, complex problems of some pupils and/or attention deficit. For these reasons, the teacher experienced continuous interruptions during the lesson that might provoke its ineffectiveness. Moreover, when the class is often disturbed also attentive students have difficulties in following it and, on the other hand, the teacher herself see her efforts frustrated.&#160;</p><p>Considering these conditions, the aim of this action-research project was to tackle teaching methods effective in increasing pupils' involvement and therefore improving their learning levels.</p><p>The project was about &#8220;Water and sustainability&#8221;. The main objectives were:</p><ul><li>increasing students' knowledge and awareness about water use and preservation and related environmental problems, leaving a trace of increased sensitivity on this topic ;</li>
<li>improving students involvement by raising their attention and stimulating curiosity and questions about phenomena and facts;</li>
<li>encouraging students to explore the problematic situation and build up personal hypotheses and/or interpretative models, and to use ICT in a conscious and correct way.</li>
</ul><p>The project was divided into several phases: engagement, water pollution investigation, work group, learning by doing/enjoying&#160; and final discussion. For each phase, a specific lesson plan was defined with an accurate scheduling and scaffolding of the different proposed activities. Observations with grids and evaluation activities (intermediate and final) were also planned and implemented.</p><p>From the evaluation of the projects and of the work groups, carried out by the students, we could observe how the integrated use of diversified teaching strategies, class settings and digital technologies improved the overall level of learning.</p>