Hiking – Explore And Learn! Erasmus Project

General information for the Hiking – Explore And Learn! Erasmus Project

Hiking – Explore And Learn! Erasmus Project
September 14, 2022 12:00 am
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Project Title

Hiking – Explore And 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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Health and wellbeing; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The two-year project “Hiking – Explore And Learn!” is based on the partnership of three schools: Základní škola Valašské Meziříčí from the Czech Republic, Rigas Valda Avotina pamatskola – attistibas centrs from Latvia and IES Virgen de la Soledad from Spain. This partnership was created via the platform of eTwinning. All three schools have experience in many previous projects.

Our main priorities are:
– Promoting a comprehensive approach to language teaching and learning
– Supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences
– Environmental climate goals

Main topics addressed by our project are:
– Health and well-being
– Environmental and climate change
– Teaching and learning foreign languages

Main objectives of our project are:
– New methods of teaching and learning of English and other subjects
– Real-life communication opportunities
– Cross-curricular collaboration
– Supporting skills of team work, cooperation, creativity and innovation
– Cooperation with local companies
– Development of teachers´ skills and personal profiles
– Healthy learning and lifestyle
– Showing the environment and nature as a source of knowledge
– Focusing on the main local environmental problems of each country
– Changing pupils´ perception of the environment towards its protection

Participants include also pupils with fewer opportunities such as health problems, social obstacles, economic obstacles and educational difficulties.
Participants CZ: 14 pupils aged 11-14 (5 with fewer opportunities), 4 teachers, headmaster, accountant, partner companies, parents, invited ambassadors, town hall representatives, school headmasters.
Participants ES: 14 pupils 12-14 (5 with fewer opportunities), 4 teachers, headmaster, accountant, partner companies, parents, invited ambassadors, town hall representatives and school headmasters.
Participants LV: 64 pupils with fewer opportunities aged 12-16 (28 travelling), 9 teachers, headmaster, accountant, partner companies, invited school headmasters.

Our main work will be based on hiking. We want to show hiking as an innovative way of outdoor learning, connected with learning foreign languages, Geography, History, Biology and Environmental education.
Our main methodology will be:
– CLIL
– outdoor learning
– digital technologies
– team work

Activities:
1) Pre-hiking CLIL lessons and preparatory lessons
2) Hiking -trips with worksheets, shooting videos, taking pictures, collecting rubbish etc.
– 2 hiking trips a year in each country
– focus on Geography and Biology in the first year and Geopraphy and History in the second year.
3) Post-hiking lessons – editing videos, processing hiking results, writing texts, creating printable and interactive exercises, multilingual dictionary
4) Communicative activities – writing letters, emails via TwinSpace, videoconferences
5) LTT – short term exchanges of pupils in:
– Spain (Doñana National Park, Seville, recycling, making toys, school orchard)
– the Czech Republic: Excursions to our partner companies: Tridas, Eco Centre, lecture by a Nature Reserve (CHKO) Beskydy Representative, Biology trip, History trip, photography course, workshops.
– Latvia (Zilie kalni (Blue Hills) National Park in Ogre – Ice Age Masterpiece, Old Riga, making a movie)

Results:
Two main results which contain individual subresults:

1) Lesson plan and worksheet booklet – it will contain 12 lesson plans based on CLIL, worksheets for CLIL lessons and the key to exercises. This result will be useful especially to teachers who will use the method of CLIL in Geography, Biology or History in the future.

2) Tourist guide – it will be an educational source of tourist routes for everybody, especially for families with children for whom we would like to raise motivation while hiking and bring an amusing but educational element to hiking. We will place the tourist guides to tourist info centres. Using i-phones will increase the use of the tourist guide. It will contain:
– 12 tourist routes with description, short texts and maps
– photos
– multilingual dictionary (Czech, English, Latvian, Spanish)
– 12 printed exercises + key
– 12 QR codes to interactive exercises
– 12 QR codes to video reports from the trips

Additional results:
1) Calendar
2) Results from LTT
– Czech Republic: posters, photo presentations, video, diaries
– Spain: toys, photos, video, diaries
– Latvia: video, photos, flyers, posters, worksheets

Dissemination of the project:
– web page, eTwinning
– notice boards
– articles on school webpages, in the press
– TV reports
– tourist guide in the tourist centres
– headmasters and teachers´ meetings
– street polls
– inviting headmasters of other schools, representatives of the town hall and ambassadors to LTT

Long-term benefits and impact:
– prestige of the school
– materials for future CLIL lessons and school trips
– cooperation with the public
– tourist guide for the public, even tourists from abroa

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97510 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zakladni skola Valasske Mezirici, Safarikova 726, okres Vsetin, prispevkova organizace & Country: CZ

Project Partners

  • Rigas Valda Avotina pamatskola – attistibas centrs
  • IES Virgen de la Soledad