Head in the clouds Erasmus Project

Project Title

Head in the clouds

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

“Head in the clouds” project is about increasing scientific spirit by studying meteorology and comparing weather amoung eight european countries. Weather seems to be a very common subject. Despite of this, its technical aspects are rarely studied at school. It has nevertheless a real and concrete impact on our daily life. Studying weather is a way to teach sciences through multidisciplinary activities. This three years project addresses primary school pupils, irrespective of sex, origin, social level or abilities. It is shared in six semesters :

– recording weather (creating meteorological instruments)

– states of water (experimenting to understand their role in weather)

– clouds and extrem natural phenomena (experimenting to create a cloud, creating a clouds dictionary, creating a boardgame)

– astronomy (comparing seasons, experimenting to understand lenght of days and night, high of the sun…)

– global warming (comparing effects on culture, water level…)

– weather and health (comparing flu epidemic dates, Seasonal Affective Disorders, protecting from the sun…)

Pupils are learning to observe, make working hypothesis, develop a line of argument and imagine experiments. In this way they are developping their curiosity, their criticism, their creativity and increase their interest towards sciences.

The great diversity of involved countries provides a wide panel to observe and compare. This enables our pupils to learn European geography, increase their feeling of European citizenship and their openmindness.

By learning to love sciences from the earliest age, by learning to love Europe from the earliest age, our pupils, boys and girls, will probably be more inclined to study sciences later and, why not, increase the number of European scientists !

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 128395 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ecole Primaire d’Oust-Marest & Country: FR

Project Partners

• AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS Nº1 DE PORTALEGRE
• 1o OLOIMERO DIMOTIKO SHOLIO VERDIKOUSSAS, ELASSONA
• DOBELES SAKUMSKOLA
• CEPR La Gaviota
• Zakladna skola s materskou skolou Trnkova 1, 851 10 Bratislava – Jarovce
• OS Vransko-Tabor Vransko 23 3305 Vransko
• Primary school Nedelya Petkova