Little People for Big Changes Erasmus Project

Project Title

Little People for Big Changes

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Early childhood education and care; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The project “Little people for big changes” reflects today’s need for global change, so that our future and our children’ one will be safe and healthy. It was born from the need for children to appreciate our environment and to have responsible attitudes and behaviour. The project will include 6 preschools in different countries Sweden, Romania, Turkey, North Macedonia, Greece, and Italy.
Our purpose in developing this project is that the children, who will be independent adults,will be able to take responsibility for the environment and to save the Earth’s resources,by being able to use sustainability. Also,we want to give the adults involved understanding and awareness about how important it is to be economical, to recycle and to be able to use other tools such as digitization to avoid wasting Earth’s resources.
Another goal is to develop the children’s identity and independence and confidence in their own ability which is linked to the children’s creativity and ability to interact and communicate with the outside world. Our idea is that working on projects at the preschool will build and create meaning and expand children’s learning in such an extremely important subject as Nature’s and environmental saving.
We will use the storytelling methodology which is an important part of teaching in the kindergarten because learning is both more effective and lasting when the lesson is conveyed through a story. In our project the imaginary story with two characters, two mascots “tree Charlie and captain Eko” help children learn new vocabulary, learn and build important concepts such as respect of nature, of the environment where they live, pollution and manmade harm done to our nature .The two mascots will lead children towards a better comprehension, literacy, art, math and science concepts, fine motor skills and the comunicative ability . Teaching and fantasy can happily coexist in order to reach our objective to make children aware of “sustainable development”.They will be responsible for the future.Participants will be involved through events, workshops, games, activities, and shows in order to create a profitable collaboration network with small pupils.To reach project’s purpose and our goals and objectives, we planned 6 main activities:
C1-Sustainable Development in Early Education for the sustainable environment
C2-An apple a day keeps the doctor away-COMPOST
C3- A TREE as a friend
C4- Learn, play, love nature
C5- Hundred toys – NO WASTE
C6- The Importance of Clean Environment
We will develop the Key European competences and active citizenship and soft skills.STEAM activities will be carried out with manual activities,sensorial workshops, outdoor games,use of waste and amorphous material,simple scientific experiments, gardening and discovery activities in the surrounding area, songs and poems, conversations, stories, dramatizations, and shows. The mascots Tree Charlie and Captain Eko are the integrating background of the whole project.The little students will use ITC: Ipad, LIM, computer, interactive table, robotics, 3D printer, and educational software.They will be learning with interactive games, online coding, ebooks, QR, activities with augmented reality to promote cooperation and collaboration between partner schools. We will also work with cultivating plants using recyclable materials, recycle their old clothes and fabric into some useful clothing or masked clothing, planting trees and taking care of them, workshops with the children and the teachers for making toys and constructions from natural materials, creating objects by 3D printer.
The project will include various groups including preschool teachers, nurses, kitchen staff, principal, educational developer, school administration staff, children , parents and granparents, members of local authorities, volunteers of ecological associations and also local residents.
In order to be able to measure if the project objectives have been met or not, in each partner country, an assessment team will be established for both LTT and local project activities. The coordinator of the project will supervise the evaluation and dissemination of project results in order to make sure the project will have a sustainable impact. To extend the impact of “Little people for big changes” project and ensure the effects nationally and some echoes internationally.We will also develop a parallel E-twinning project under the guidance of our partners who are experienced in using this platform.
Dissemination and exploitation of results will provide an extension of the project beyond its lifetime.The sustainability will be guaranteed through long-term free open-access to partners’ websites.
Using methodologies such as cooperative learning, problem-solving, learning by doing, peer to peer, peer tutoring,etc. will influence the quality of education in partner kindergartens by exchange of experiences and new methods of teaching in the field of environment protecti

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197000 Eur

Project Coordinator

Happyland Förskola & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Ünye Anaokulu
• Direzione Didattica Statale 3° Circolo Luigi Pirandello
• JOUDG Pavlina Veljanova
• GRADINITA CU PROGRAM PRELUNGIT NR.13
• SOTIRIADI B. KAI SIA OE