Context All 4 schools share a common need to enhance and develop the awareness, skills and competencies of our students referred to health and sustainability. Art is creation, so they are privileged fields to develop creativity; and it'll be used in close cooperation with these social issues. Using arts like this will help students to develop their creativity to face social and daily issues. That's why we want to use arts (poetry, arts and crafts, music, dance, theatre, photography, video, ...) to express the outcomes, achievements and conclusions. Objectives Health and sustainability are two really vast fields; to get tangible outcomes, we wll focus on a few aspects emerging from the needs detected (see "activities", below). We will also face these issues by developing our students' entrepreneurship: they have to know how to take decisions with an important impact in their health and in the environment. By using arts to express outcomes, we also want to improve the integration of the arts in the curriculum, giving them a social dimension. We want to increase teachers' and students' creativity. Creativity and awareness will intermingle and feedback. We want to improve our schools engagement with these challenges and to increase the presence of these issues in our schools. Participants The participants in this project are mainly students and teachers, but not only. The main participants will be students aged 14-15. Some 365 students will take part in the learning activities and many more will participate in the school activities previous to the learning activities. In total, about 1740 people will benefit of the project. Teachers participating in the project are those who are responsible for the management of the project and teaching the activities, other teachers who will cooperate in the activities, and almost all teachers' staffs who will benefit of the internationalization of the school. Other participants are: Families hosting foreign students in the learning activities External experts whowill teach concrete aspects of the project, and other stakeholders as companies that students will visit. Town halls that will receive students' proposals Citizens in general from these villages and towns who will enjoy and share those art works that students will make in public places. Activities and methodology The project is divided into 4 periods, each one dealing with a field of study: 1: Healthy and sustainable school lifestyle 2: Healthy personal lifestyle 3: Sustainable individual lifestyle 4: Health and sustainability in Society According to this plan, the activities deal with: The current state of environmental responsibility in each school. The creation of green commandos. School waste reduction. Increasing the % of students going to school by sustainable means. Cooking healthy recipes. Physical activities in the nature. Making proposals to the town hall and to PE teachers. Differences between agroindustry and agroecology. Reducing our carbon footprint The origin of the clothes we wear Experiencing doing it by oneself Experiencing consumer cooperatives Advantages of local seasonal products Building an energetically sustainable device Growing, sharing and distributing eco products in our school gardens Water and air pollution A logo competition Expressing results using different art languages and techniques Methodologies to achieve the maximum involvement and proactivity of the students will be used: project based learning, empowerment of the students, cooperative teamwork, peer learning In each period, all core activities begin in each school- in online contact with partners - and finish in the learning activity. Making dissemination artifacts to expand the worked out skills and awareness are also core activities. Results The main tangible results of the project are art works, shared teaching plans and documentation of the activities, leaflets and proposals made by the students. Intangible: enhancing students' health and sustainability skills. A greater engagement of our schools with the challenges referred to sustainability and to health, a willingness of our teachers' staffs to work on these issues with a global approach, and increasing the integration of the arts in the curriculum. Impact Our students will improve their skills in arts, health and sustainability Our schools will be more skillful on them and will have more resources to work on them Our schools will benefit of this internationalization and of an improvement in teaching. Our local communities will live these events The teachers will disseminate the project in professional circles Potential long term benefits An improvement of our youngsters' habits in health and sustainability is a real investment in the future; the project is designed to penetrate deeply in them. The improvement of teaching that our schools will experiment during the project will remain, as their mangament staffs have all the needed resources to make it possible.
*All 4 schools shared a common need to enhance and develop the awareness, skills, and competencies of our students referred to health and sustainability. As art is creation, this was a privileged field to develop creativity and it was used in close cooperation with these social issues in order to help students to develop their creativity to face these social issues. That's why we used arts (poetry, arts, and crafts, music, dance, theatre, photography, video, ...) to express the outcomes, achievements, and conclusions of this project. Objectives Health and sustainability are two really vast fields; to get tangible outcomes, we focused on a few aspects emerging from the needs previously detected. We also faced these issues by developing our students' entrepreneurship, as they have to know how to take decisions with an important impact in their health and in the environment. By using arts to express outcomes, we wanted to improve the integration of the arts in the curriculum, giving them a social dimension. We wanted to increase teachers' and students' creativity, intermingling and feedbacking creativity and awareness. We wanted to improve our schools' engagement with these challenges and to increase the presence of these issues in our schools. Participants The participants in this project were mainly students and teachers, but not only. The main participants were students aged 14-15. Some 400 took part in the learning activities and many more participated in the school activities previous to the learning activities. In total, about 1700 people benefited from the project. Teachers participating in the project were those who were responsible for the management of the project and the teaching the activities, other teachers who cooperated in the activities, and almost all teachers' staffs who benefited of the internationalization of the school. Other participants were: Families hosting foreign students in the learning activities External experts who taught concrete aspects of the project, and other stakeholders as companies that students visited. Town halls that received students' proposals Citizens in general from our villages and towns who enjoyed and shared those artworks that students made in public places. Activities and methodology The project was divided into 4 periods, each one dealing with a field of study: 1: Healthy and sustainable school lifestyle 2: Healthy personal lifestyle 3: Sustainable individual lifestyle 4: Health and sustainability in Society According to this plan, the activities dealt with: The current state of environmental responsibility in each school. The creation of green commandos. School waste reduction. Increasing the % of students going to school by sustainable means. Cooking healthy recipes. Physical activities in nature. Making proposals to the town hall and to PE teachers. Differences between agroindustry and agroecology. Reducing our carbon footprint The origin of the clothes we wear Experiencing doing it by oneself Advantages of local seasonal products Building energetically sustainable devices Growing eco products in our school gardens Water and air pollution A logo competition Expressing results using different art languages and techniques Methodologies to achieve the maximum involvement and proactivity of the students were used: project-based learning, empowerment, cooperative teamwork, peer learning. In each period, all core activities begin in each school- in online contact with partners - and finish in the learning activity. Making dissemination artifacts to expand the worked out awareness are also core activities. Results The main tangible results of the project are artworks, shared teaching plans and documentation of the activities, leaflets, and proposals made by the students. Intangible: enhancing students' health and sustainability skills. Greater engagement of our schools with the challenges referred to sustainability and to health, a willingness of our teachers' staffs to work on these issues with a global approach, and increasing the integration of the arts in the curriculum. Impact Our students and schools improved their skills in arts, health, and sustainability, and got more resources to work on them Our schools took advantage of this internationalization and improvement in teaching. Our local communities lived part of these events The teachers disseminated the project in professional circles Potential long term benefits We hope an improvement of our youngsters' habits in health and sustainability as the project is designed to penetrate deeply in them. Teaching in our schools improved, both in the issues of health, sustainability, and arts and also in the implementation of new methodologies. All of them are going to remain in our school.