Eco Child Erasmus Project

Project Title

Eco Child

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 2019

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Summary and objectives of the project
Natural resources may be further classified in different ways. Natural resources are materials that you can find in the environment. Every man-made product is composed of natural resources (at its fundamental level). A natural resource may exist as a separate entity such as fresh water and air, as well as a living organism such as a fish, or it may exist in an alternate form which must be processed to obtain the resource such as metal ores, mineral oil, and most forms of energy. Using environmental sources efficiently means “using the Earth’s limited resources in a sustainable manner while minimising impacts on the environment. It allows us to create more with less and to deliver greater value with less input.” In order to protect the natural resources EU applied measures. By 2020, the EU aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20%, increase the share of renewable energy to at least 20% of consumption, and achieve energy savings of 20% or more. All EU countries must also achieve a 10% share of renewable energy in their transport sector. Through the attainment of these targets, the EU can help combat climate change and air pollution, decrease its dependence on foreign fossil fuels, and keep energy affordable for consumers and businesses.
The 2020 package is a set of binding legislation to ensure the EU meets its climate and energy targets for the year 2020.
The package sets three key targets:
20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions (from 1990 levels)
20% of EU energy from renewables
20% improvement in energy efficiency
As a part of this strategy in this project we are working with primary schools and kindergartens and we aim to inform them about the importance of the environment and nature and we also aim to increase their awareness on recycling, natural resources and also protecting the environment and saving energy.
This is a Project about the biggest problem; misuse of natural resources. We all need these natural resources in order to live. Just like everything else, natural supplies also have an end and if we don’t stop wasting and start using more wisely all these supplies and keep polluting them, they will soon vanish. We will have nothing to inherit to the posterity. On the other hand this is the responsibility of all people and the best way to educate them is from an early age. The most important aspect of the project is giving the sense of importance of the environment to our youngsters who are the adults, governors, presidents and ministers of the future. As we are users of the etwinning platform we will share all our activities and findings on our etwinning project and twinningspace.
Description of the activities:
Our project will improve children’s creativity, presentation and artistic skills and they will start to care about the environment; they will start to recycle/reuse waste materials, they will create their own stories. they will improve or brush up their artistic abilities with the help of the toys and objects they will create and also with the help of the dramatizations and small sketches. Teachers will establish new friendships for future projects and also improve their teaching abilities by observing various teaching methods in different institutions. Students will learn new phrases in the target language and teachers will improve their English skills, as this is the project’s communication language. Our methodology will be inquiry based learning “Students can work by themselves, or as part of a small or large group. Inquiry itself typically involves methods such as discussion and guided research. You can also provide content in form of text, audio, video and virtual or physical manipulatives such as building blocks”(https://www.prodigygame.com/blog/inquiry-based-learningdefinition-benefits-trategies/#strategies)
Participants:
25 pupils from each partner kindergarten or primary school. They will work with their responsible teacher according to the mini projects that are chosen and they will actively participate in them. They will also need their parents’ help in order to research and sometimes they may need the help of professionals from different institutions like universities, research centres etc. which will visit them to inspire them on both artistic skills and also the effect of the environment on our lives, the effects of recycling, saving energy and the importance of renewable energy.
RESULTS
Youngsters will increase environmental awareness and they will develop artistic skills and a point of view
All the participants will abolish prejudgements
Teachers will improve teaching skills and setup future partnerships
Improvement of ties among parents/pupils and teachers
Improvement of L2 skills
Promoting environmental awareness and results of misuse of resources to the public

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 66905 Eur

Project Coordinator

DIADRASTIKO EUROPAIKO SXOLEIO & Country: EL

Project Partners

• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA SPECIALA PENTRU DEFICIENTI DE VEDERE
• Kedainiu lopselis-darzelis “Puriena”
• SELÇUKLU KESKESLER ANAOKULU