School on bike – eco in mind – in real life and VR Erasmus Project

Project Title

School on bike – eco in mind – in real life and VR

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; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

Project Summary

Students of both partner schools, although know the issues of environmental protection and changes that occur in it, they undertake minimal activities in their everyday lives that would indicate conscious care for the environment. Therefore the goal of the project is to stimulate students to act and motivate them to take up social activity. Taking advatage of the long-lasting experience in cycling to school by the students from the Netherlands, students from Poland will present to the commune authorities a proposal of building bicycle paths within the villages from which they reach the school.
Students from Venlo, using the partners’ experience in implementing a research method into didactic process and using ICT tools to present results, will jointly conduct air, water and vegetation tests for pollution caused by exhaust fumes. In addition, both groups will take up an ecological challenge to postpone earth overshoot day.
Participation in a series of workshops using e.g. the Pecha Kucha method will overcome difficulties and equip the students in the ability to formulate oral statements based on argumentation and inference. The practical usage of IT tools for building trips and shows in VR will enrich the methodological workshop of teachers and prepare teenagers for future professions.
By accomplishing the project’s objectives, we assume that 57 students aged 12-14 will change their daily habits that affect the degradation of the natural environment, while developing key social competences in the field of initiation and entrepreneurship, mathematics, computer and natural sciences.
The following activities, despite all the preparation to start off, have been planned:
1. School on a bike: each partner group, including eTwinning ones organizes a bike trip and in the next step converts the trip into an online tour in a chosen subject (maths, history, language, etc.).
2. Earth Overshoot Day: measure classes’ earth overshoot day – initial situation.
3. Teachers Development Club: teachers of both schools organise self-study to develop their VR skills and learn new presentation methods.
4. #MoveTheDate: Students determine factors to postpone Earth Overshoot Day. They decide on an action to be held (i.e. zero waste week, everyone on bike day). A short report is added to #MoveTheDate Solutions on the official overshootday website.
5. The didactics of VR in the classroom: an eTwinning event around technical aspects of VR.
6. Culture and history around me: students of both schools develop VR skills while preparing tours for their peers from the other school.
7. Short-term exchanges of groups of students: April – May 2021 under slogans “… with wind in hair” and “Recycling against pollution”.
8. Flower beds with Dutch tulips in the school field and in the centre of Purda village, Poland.
9. Proposals: students of School in Purda apply for building cycling lanes and teachers of School in Venlo apply for implementing VR in the curriculum.
10. Follow-up of the project.
The actions will be taken in two parallel ways: in addition to activities aimed at developing key competences of students, teachers will take up self-development in the use of tools for creating VR and then they will share the acquired skills.
We assume the following long-term impacts and results:
1) increase of language competences, both students and teachers involved in the project implementation;
2) development of students’ awareness and their sense of responsibility for the environment protection;
3) increase of tolerance and awareness of cultural differences among students;
4) gaining experience in travelling abroad.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/94784/home

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 30038,43 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkolno-Przedszkolny w Purdzie, Szkola Podstawowa im. Tadeusza Pezaly & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Valuascollege