WATER : a surviving ressource Erasmus Project

Project Title

WATER : a surviving ressource

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: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Energy and resources

Project Summary

Our project comes within the ”Fridays for future”, a movement for the protection of our planet implemented by the young Swedish Greta Thunberg.
There are 50 pupils ( boys and girls), both German and French, aged 13-14 who learn French
or German as a second language.

Our objectives are:
– to sensibilize and educate our pupils to become European responsible citizens, aware of their environment.
– To understand the necessity of preserving and manage water ressources as a commune property.
– To be aware of our daily influence on the environment
– To find small-scale advice and / or solutions in order to change or think about the right behaviour to have
– To get to know more about jobs concerning water and how to preserve them
– To have an open mind
– To encourage cross-cultural communication
– To attach cinematic knowledge ( scan)

The employed methodologies are:
– the discovery in class of watercourses and seas of the studied country
– the implementation of specific vocabulary
– the use of this vocabulary to discover the watercourses and the seas of these areas ( brochures)
– The practise of theoretical knwoledges on the spot ( transnational activities)
– The building of the different plans and film sequences
– the completion and the scan of the project.

The activities are:

– the study of the rivers and seas in the studied languages during class sessions
– the activities of digital research
– the learning of cinematic techniques and writing
– the exchange of brochures introducing the rivers and the seas of he pupils’ own country but in the studied language thanks to eTwinning
– the analysis of waters ( GGO pond)
– the knowledge of the fauna and the flora ( observatory on the Loire and the Lahn)
– the knowledge of the function of a lake-dam ( Edersee) and the influence of the rising and decreasing/ descending waters on the piscicultural reserves ( unique monitoring in Germany)
– Getting to know the marine environment and the jobs relating to water ( shore fishing for instance)
– Thinking about advice concerning our behaviour towards nature next to and on watercourses
– the construction of different plans and sequences of our movie

“The expected results and impact are as follows:

make pupils aware of the fact that water is an indispensable resource to be protected (no wastage; careful use; a renewable resource; consideration of both personal and industrial use)
have pupils consider solutions for our common future
encourage responsible European citizenship
communicate with future European citizens in the target language by developing linguistic skills
learn to live together in cross-cultural situations

The long term benefit is to make pupils globally aware of the need to protect water resources on the planet.”

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 24881 Eur

Project Coordinator

College Joseph Crocheton & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Gesamtschule Gießen-Ost