In Nature we learn Erasmus Project

Project Title

In Nature we learn

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Natural sciences; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Background
Nowadays children live mostly in the imprisonment of their home and school walls. Several reasons have pushed children indoors, including technology, migration to cities and their development, demands on children’s time (homework, parental fear of strangers…). In these times of indoor children, personal connections with nature seem hard to attain, an aspect which is related to a decrease on the environment care on the part of future gener-ations.
Increasing proofs demonstrate many benefits of nature on children’s physical and psychological well-being, such as reduction of stress, better physical health, more creativity and a better focus on their tasks. Furthermore, an increase of leisure time on greener areas might enable children to learn more successfully, improving their ability to concentrate in the classroom.
Exploring creatively and self-experiences discovering nature seem to be the best way for children to learn about a lot of subjects, mainly Science, according to recent research. Taking into account these study results and based on our needs to find different activities which allow students to perform better in class, we have created this project aiming to get the desired results and sharing them with other schools from our areas and all around Europe.
We have decided to make this initiative transnational with the purpose to observe how other pupils relate to na-ture, how other schools challenge the issue of children spending so much time on indoors activities. We want to share good practices and knowledges which will help in the improvement of all the involved schools.
Our main aims are:
1. To improve the competence of teachers designing outdoors activities integrating them in a systematic practice.
2. To enable teachers within the EU countries to cooperate and to produce common outputs that will be used by their schools as well as by other schools.
3. To promote nature as a learning setting.
4. To improve the acquisition of skills and competences by pupils.
5. To make parents aware of the importance of outdoor time.
6. To develop teachers and pupils’ critical thinking and intercultural competence.
7. To develop interpersonal skills among the participants.

Participants
Teachers (5/country/LTTA) will attend transnational events to meet their partners from other countries. There, they will be able to check their methods comparing and contrasting realities of different educational systems, to participate in cultural events and to organized activities and then distribute the information locally.

Activities
C1 – Learning outdoors – current trends in Europe (organized in TURKEY in Nov 2018)
C2 – Nature activities and numeracy (GREECE in Feb 2019)
C3 – Nature activities and literacy (POLAND in May 2019)
C4 – Nature activities and science (MACEDONIA in Oct 2019)
C5 – Nature activities and the exploration of the self through arts and crafts (SPAIN in Mar 2020)

Results
– Report related to activities in the nature developed at regular basis in schools, their main aims, purpose and methodology, the frequency of these actions (as discussed during LTTA1)
– Assortment of activities to develop skills which can be performed outdoors (as presented during LTTA2)
– Assortment of outdoor activities to develop Literacy (LTTA3)
– Assortment of outdoor activities to study Sciences (LTTA4)
– Assortment of outdoor activities to increase self-awareness, self-expression through arts and crafts (LTTA5)

Impact
As an outcome of the implementation, all participating schools will reinforce their association with the parents, students and teachers. There will be enhanced dialogue among the chain of schools and among schools’ students and teachers, on account of the immediate contribution of all classifications. This can only be of a great value and profit for the school over the long run. It is likewise believed that this partnership will provoke future joint efforts with parents, increased parents’ support and improved parents-school collaboration.
By enhancing the synergy in the school, we will turn out to be more alluring to nearby schools and more students will wish to enlist in our school.
The teachers will enhance their aptitudes, which implies that there will be a change in the nature and quality of teaching also, which brings about better school outcomes and results for the students. Similarly, students will turn out to be more roused, more motivated, they will appreciate the learning background more, find pleasure in the learning experience, another gain for the school.

Project Website

https://slabroau.wixsite.com/inwl

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 77833 Eur

Project Coordinator

CRA: FRANCISCO IBAÑEZ & Country: ES

Project Partners

• DES Primary private Company
• Szkola Podstawowa w Windzie
• OOU ,,Brakja Miladinovci,, Kumanovo
• Zuhtupasa Ilkokulu