P1 – Let’s begin!
Partners started communication and learned how to use the etwinning platform for exchanging information and media. One teacher in every school has been appointed to manage the platform and is responsible for uploading media. Also, a teacher in every school has been appointed to handle the mobility tool. Ioannis Arvanitakis from Peiramatiko Dimotiko Scholeio Florinas created and maintains the project’s webpage and the Facebook page where the products of the activities will be uploaded.
P2 – Talk to parents
All partners presented our common project to the parents of our students. An online meeting was held in every school where teachers presented the project to parents and discussed their participation in the activities. A presentation of the project was sent to all parents via email. Another issue that was mentioned concerns the participation of students in the mobilities and the hosting of guest students in each community, especially in relation to the covid-19 pandemic and the restrictions to travel.
P3 – Logomania
Students from all schools created logos for our project “What a wonderful world”, using various techniques (drawing, collage, digital art, etc.). Every school selected one logo after a voting procedure, and the six selected logos were published in the etwinning platform and in the project’s webpage. All students from partner schools participated in this activity. The selection of the final logo was decided by a final vote from students from all the schools and is now on our webpage.
P4 – Our Erasmus corners
Each partner created an Erasmus corner in their school where we collect and present information to students, parents, and visitors and introduce the school community to our project. A teacher in every school undertook the task to maintain the Erasmus corner, which is continually enriched by all students in every school with maps, statistical data, photo exhibitions, collages, paintings, exchange gifts etc as the project unfolds.
P5 – Have you heard of climate change?
All partners collaborated online and created questionnaires for students, parents, and teachers in order to document their initial knowledge and perceptions of climate change and sustainability. Questionnaires were handed out or submitted online by students, parents, and teachers in each school. The data were collected for each partner and presented in our first meeting in Venice. All data were also uploaded to the etwinning platform and to the project webpage.
P6 – What a wonderful world!
Every partner created short guides in the form of videos, presentations, and animations about our local schools, cities, and local environment. Students and teachers in every school cooperated with local environmental authorities, museums, and NGOs to gather information. All media are uploaded to the project webpage and etwinning platform to be shared with the rest of the partners.
P7 – Views of our environment
Two schools from the partnership selected specific places in their local environment from where they took photos during different seasons. The photos are posted on our webpage, showing seasonal changes in our surrounding environment.
P8 – Let’s sing a song!
All schools of the partnership collaborated to create and perform a common song that is the hymn of our project. At first, students from all the schools wrote ideas about the lyrics. The themes they should address, what words we should use, and small poems in their own language. All the ideas were translated into English and sent to CEIP Maximiliano Gil Melián and Istituto Comprensivo Statale ADELE ZARA. There, the students and music teachers collaborated to finalize the lyrics of the song. After the lyrics were ready, CEIP Maximiliano Gil Melián undertook the task of writing music for the song and sending the final hymn to all the other partners. Students from the rest of the schools performed the song on various occasions in our LTTAs and in local dissemination events, and they also created music videos for the rest of the partners.
P9 – A Mascot from Scrap!
Each school designed and created its mascot for the project using recycled and reused materials. The activity was assigned to a specific class in some schools, and in others, there were local contests to choose from. The mascots were exchanged in every mobility between partner schools, starting from the first student group mobility in Madeira. Photos of the mascots are uploaded to the project webpage and to the etwinning platform.
P10 – Once upon a time
In every country, myths and legends have been for years connected to nature and various environmental phenomena. Each partner studied local myths and legends and created a short presentation that was uploaded to the etwinning platform and project webpage. After all the local legends were presented, all schools in pairs exchanged their creations. Each partner in a pair remixed the legend from their other partner in any way they saw artistically fit, using presentations, comic books, videos, and stop-motion animation. The remixed legends were again uploaded to our webpage and eTwinning platform, and they were also presented in various dissemination events and in the ending ceremony in Florina.
P11 – Earth Hour
Every partner organized awareness activities for Earth Hour, Earth Day, and Environment Day locally.
P12 – Tell me about your problems
Each school in our partnership studied the environmental problems of their local area and created short presentations in various media forms describing them to the rest of our team. Florina selected the coal power plants and mines in the area, Madeira the pollution of the Ocean for plastics and microplastics, and the rest presented various local problems concerning their environment. Partners participated in awareness events locally for students, parents, and the rest of the public. All presentations are uploaded to the etwinning platform and to the project webpage.
P13 – Recycle it if you can!
Exchange of good practices on recycling and reusing materials for sustainability. We created short presentations and videos on recycling and reusing practices for creating new interesting products. All presentations are uploaded to the etwinning platform and project webpage and will be used for dissemination events.
P14 – How can we save energy?
Two of our schools organized awareness-raising activities on energy-saving issues, in collaboration with local authorities, environmental organizations, etc. “Energy Teams” were created, consisting of students and teachers, with the main task of recording the school’s energy footprint and proposing good energy-saving practices. Final presentations and videos are posted to our website and etwinning platform.
P15 – How is the weather?
The Experimental Primary School of Florina created a portable weather station for bicycles and an accompanying application for smartphones that helps cyclists record weather and pollution conditions in their area and share their findings with the rest of the world, using open-source technologies. The system will be sent to all the schools (the Italian school has already received their system), and this will be a way to continue the cooperation between us even after the end of the Erasmus project.
P16 – Catwalk
Fashion shows with reused materials. “Haute couture” designer teams in every school of our partnership designed and created clothes and accessories made of reused and recycled materials. Guided by our Italian partner (Istituto Comprensivo Statale ADELE ZARA), we hosted open fashion shows for the local community. Designs, photos, and other media are uploaded to the etwinning platform and the project webpage.
P17 – Renewable energy
Students from two schools of our partnership studied and presented to the rest renewable energy sources, using models that were created for this purpose. Presentations and videos are uploaded to the project webpage, while the energy source models are exhibited at the Erasmus corners.
P18 – Has something changed?
All partners collaborated online and created online questionnaires for students, parents and teachers in order to document their knowledge and perceptions of climate change and sustainability.
P19 – What we have accomplished
The final product of our project will be a docu-film, based on environmental issues to describe what we have managed to change through our project and how we can behave in a sustainable manner in the future. Pictures, videos, short essays by pupils, change in perceptions, impressions from our project, songs and music will be entailed in this shared documentary that will be published at the end of the Project in our webpage and etwinning platform. Responsible for this activity will be the School from Valencia.
P20 – Final Report
We will collaboratively write the final report of the project and publish the outcomes and deliverables via mass media and web to ensure maximum dissemination locally, nationally and internationally.