Arbres d’Europe : de la forêt au bois Erasmus Project

Project Title

Arbres d’Europe : de la forêt au bois

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Environment and climate change; Natural sciences

Project Summary

Our ambition is to develop children in Europe who are aware of the world around them and of the importance of developing sustainability across our continent. We have therefore designed a project which seeks to develop their awareness of the forest, the trees and wood as a material and a natural resource which needs to be preserved and developed.
This project was targetting the 220 from 6 to 12 year old pupils and 30 teachers of the 4 involved primary schools. Each partner school studied the position of the forest, trees and wood in our environment and their importance in the culture of their country. Then they produced reports (in the form of writing, drawing, photos or videos) of their studies and then put this work on-line (https://twinspace.etwinning.net/10502). Finally, through the comparison of the work undertaken by each school, the children were able to discover the environment and culture of their partners and observed the similarities and differences. Each school wrote in their own language and in English. Thus we worked on foreign languages using genuine documents.
This project took on a multi-disciplinary approach since the work carried out by the pupils was relating to Science (eco-systems in the forest), Geography (the role and management of the forest, trades related to wood), History (family trees, trees in traditional culture), Literature (trees and forests in traditional tales, poetry and language) and Art (the representation of trees and the forest in paintings, art activities with wood including sculpting and engraving of wood). Monitoring of the implementation was done through the TwinSpace dedicated to the project ; the evaluation was done by the project groups in regular contact with the coordinator, and during the 4 transnational meetings.
The work produced by the children has been regulary shared through the Twinspace, and also exhibited locally to the community and the press at the end of each year. Finally an album summarising the work carried out during the course of the project has been produced and spread widely at the end of the partnership.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 45525 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ecole élémentaire de Chambon-sur-Cisse & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Habyskolan, Marks kommun
• Grundschule am Königsberg
• ECOLE DE SAINT-BLAISE