We live in a changing world. Every day science provides us with new discoveries while new technologies have been developed. For all this, education must adapt to the reality of our planet, increasingly global, in which we live. Based on these premises our project will be developed in two years. First we will focus on the history of man through the discoveries they have made to exploit the planet and obtain resources from it. But not only the history of one community, but of other European countries to have global vision of Europe; And we want them to discover how living isolated and the indiscriminate use of the planet will not lead us to have a great future. On the contrary, valuing other cultures and knowing other ways of thinking will allow us to create a more stable and peaceful Europe, and ultimately a more harmonious planet. To do that we will learn about the schools of the project, cooperative works and conflicts resolution and mediation. The second year will be dedicated to find solutions to those problems that the students have discovered, for this we will learn about recycling, reuse, creation of a school garden, improvement and protection of the surrounding green areas and the value of protected areas. The discoveries that have served to exploit the planet and to obtain its resources are the bases in which the project will be based. The knowledge helps to have a critical and more responsible opinion of reality. The student will discover the positive and negative of each era and what has led to an impoverishment of the planet in some areas, and how the union of European countries created a zone of peace and an improvement in international relations. From here, you will decide the best options to improve our environment and therefore, the planet. We want you to learn that each contribution counts, so we will create a school garden and learn techniques that can be developed later in their homes and in their environment and encourage a more civic action in the green areas of the city and a more ecological behaviour in general. We have planned four project meetings (at the beginning and at the end of each school year) which will lay the foundations for what will be developed in each country, discuss financial issues and solve problems that may arise. We will also have six training sessions, in different countries, with specialists in different topics (cooperative and project work, school garden, recycling, new educational applications, school mediation), to make the most of all activities. In them, teachers and students can coexist with colleagues from different countries, learn other cultures and customs and develop their language skills. The main objective of the project is to raise awareness of the planet as a common home, and of Europe as a community. Ignorance creates conflicts, therefore, giving the opportunity to know other realities to students, especially those with fewer opportunities will in the future be more committed and respectful citizens. To create emotional relationships will produce a deep and productive learning This will be a way to continue what we have been developing for many years, integrating children with different disabilities (especially with an autism classroom) and socially disadvantaged, in all activities of the centre. We believe that it is time to go beyond our centre, so this project will give us the opportunity to expand the results of our activities, which will impact on the entire educational community and the environment in which each centre is based in areas as Europe. We want the impact of our work to overcome the barriers of the neighbourhood school and reach thousands of people. To do that, we will use Facebook, school web pages and the celebration of events for the entire educational community (Cultural week and activities of coexistence with teachers and students who visit each centre). Thanks to the cooperation with other teachers we will create: teaching materials, didactic units, files, videos, posters, pamphlets, invitations, songs. We will include in the centre plan the methodology of co-operative work, the use of computer applications to create learning activities, the use of social networks for educational and cultural purposes, new methods of conflict resolution, celebration of the planet's day and learning through the school garden. This premises will help teachers to develop our educational work by opening ourselves to new methodology and new ways to work. This project will undoubtedly enhance teachers’ abilities both professionally and personally.
Our school has a long history in Comenius projects, so we thought it was necessary to resume the European dimension with an Erasmus plus project and to be able to expand our educational work outside the center. For this resason we set objectives both at the teaching level (developing new methodology and the use of new technologies applied to education) and for students (improving their linguistic, civic and civic competence). Therefore, based on the work carried out in our center and observing the current situation of the planet and the need to become aware of the environmental problems that our society has to face, we have developed our project in two fundamental phases. In the first phase we studied the past, students have learned by researching, reading and traveling how the human being has used natural resources throughout history. What they have bequeathed us and what we should keep, and along with the misuse of them that has led us to the current situation. This work has resulted in the creation in each center of some historic Big Books that will be part of the libraries of the centers. In these large books, students have reflected their learning about prehistory, the ancient age and the modern age, using different techniques or plastic arts. In this phase three training meetings have been held. In the first meeting the students made a movie maker presentation of their country and center, in this way they have known each other better and help to disseminate the proyect. At the same time, new technological resources were learned for the realization of the movie maker and for other activities, such as Kahoot (for the evaluation of reading comprehension), the Q reader app and Etwinning platform (for the dissemination). We also create a blog and a Facebook group. A second training meeting on cooperative groups and project work for this methodology to be implemented throughout the project. And in the third meeting we focus on conflict resolution in different variants (peer mediation, emotional education and assertive language), to prevent or solve problems arising from teamwork, accepting differences and valuing them. The second phase of the project has been the implementation of solutions for all those problems studied. We started with a part of awareness about the enviroment situation. We read books, watched videos and organized lectures to learn about the current problems of the planet, even songs were created at the Carnival time. And a practical phase in which students visited recycling centers or local waste facilities, cleaned green areas or made waste selection. In this phase the training meeting focused on the environment and how to improve it. All this work produce environmental decalogues in different formats and a green area in the schools. We make a final decalogue made in collaborative work all the students from the different countries, taking into account the contributions of all. At the same time in each center it has improved its surroundings with a school garden: planting trees , flowers or vegetables. We chose Earth day to celebrate our compromise with the planet, this date has been established in the centers, as the most appropriate celebration to show our commitment to the environment. We made a flash mob together, we chose Michael Jackon's song "Heal the world" and we dressed in blue, a reflection of the planet Earth.