Environment and Sustainability - A Comenius-Project of Six European Schools

This Comenius-Project has finished in July 2011.
Good-bye!

Conference from the 3^rd till the 10^th of April 2011 in Gaziantep:goes here

Results 2011:
CZ&DK-Group 2+3 - Mohammad- Hille's 9A
Hille's 6A - Eva's 7B - Eva's 8B - Marju's 7A - Marju's 9B - Fanny's 3C

These six schools work together from Autumn 2009 till summer 2011:

1^st link goes to the website, 2^nd link to the address (new window), 3^rd link to information about each school.

Make the pupils aware of their own role as consumer – and its consequences.
Give the pupils a wider knowledge and awareness :

Decisions made in the conference in Copenhagen 2008:
First year:

The starting point are the close and daily necessities as food, water, clothing and leisure time activities.
The concrete aims of the project for the first year are to make the pupils aware of their own role as consumers of nature resources.
We want them to become critical consumers realising that their choices have consequences.
We want to teach the pupils in a very positive way concentrating on their possibilities for alternative consumption habits.
To get them understand that even small changes in habits can have great significance.

Contents of the first year

What do we eat? The necessity of healthy food. Place of origin, ways of production, transportation.
How are we spending water? The necessity of clean water.
What are we wearing? Look at for instance your T-shirt – From production to scrapping!
Leisure time consumption for a young person in Europe. Computer, mobile phone, iPod etc
Family habits: Comparing consuming profiles. Show consequences and alternatives
Spending habits for young European persons on food, drinking, clothes and leisure time activities.
Recycling compared to mountains of garbage. Fashion show with clothes made from rubbish.

Second year

The second point is the common need and consumption of energy and transportation.
The concrete aim of the second year is to make the pupils aware that while need of energy is growing,traditionally resources are decreasing.
The pupils need to know about renewable energy sources. We will show them ways of saving energy.

Contents of the second year

Energy experiments in all countries: sun – and water energy, solar cells to load batteries, dynamo energy etc.
Measuring of energy consumption at school and comparing it for all 6 countries.
Excursions to local and regional places for renewable energy: windmill park, recycling energy factory etc.
“Think Global – Act Local” festival in Denmark September 2010 for as many pupils as possible.
Many experiments with energy.
Collective transportation compared to private transportation. Cost benefit analysis. CO2 effect.
New ways of private transportation – electric cars etc
Focus on biking to school and leisure time activities. Campaigns to achieve certain amounts of kilometres.
Finally deciding together: The 10 commandments of clever use of energy.
Closure of the project and evaluation: Essays written by the participating pupils about their experiences in the project concerning new consumption habits and new intercultural competences.

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