The “Ecology and Sport – Two Ways, One Story” project is the answer to modern society’s demands such as: active lifestyle, speaking foreign languages, using ICT, being eco-friendly, team work, broadening horizons or being involved in local community. Needs of all target schools are also taken into account. The main goals we aim at is to develop students’ interests in learning in a natural way, outside the classroom. The objectives of this project are focused especially on key competences, particularly on developing basic and transversal skills as well as on improving ICT abilities, promoting active life style and environment protection. The holistic teaching, combining different school subjects will result in the increase of passion and commitment towards gaining knowledge and developing skills as well as towards tasks they have to face nowadays. The aim of project at the time of realization is to increase motivation for learning by making it more interesting. Learning can be fascinating, innovative and creative. Teachers as students’ leaders are to show them that knowledge is very useful and profitable especially while being used in practice. What is more, the education process will be realized not only in classrooms, but also outdoors. Furthermore, the project is focused not only on skills and abilities that can be developed when working in it but it is also process-oriented. We are absolutely convinced that the change of attitude towards learning and the increase of motivation will last longer than the time of the realization of this project. To encourage students to use their knowledge in practice and to stimulate physical activity, the four sports - environmental events are planned. During these happenings students will also have the opportunity to expand their knowledge and develop their sports skills. The sports and environmental happenings are focused on three elements: earth, air, and water. Each partner country is responsible for the preparation of a happening based on one of mentioned natural elements. The elements were chosen in accordance with what is essential for each school. We are planning to manifest that we are all for active ways of spending free time, we will encourage the inhabitants to co-live with nature and to care for the environment as well. During the environmental happenings we are going to encourage the communities of students, teachers, who are not directly engaged in the project itself, parents and local authorities as well as social community of a given area to take part in the event. Happenings are to be a great opportunity to form an aware citizen who is not indifferent to local needs as well as environment protection. Students will also learn how to promote active, healthy way of living. All in all, the aim of the activities on a real field is to create an active citizen, a member of local society, who has his/her own ideas and is active in learning process. On the virtual field three eTwinning projects will be realized at the same time with the ”Erasmus plus” undertaking. The eTwinning projects will be compatible with our project “Ecology and Sport – Two Ways, One Story”. Thanks to being engaged in this project, both students and teachers will be able to develop their ICT skills. While realization of eTwinning projects on-line lessons will be conducted as well. We decided that two partner schools will take part in each on-line lesson. Firstly, Finland and Poland will prepare lesson on the topic “Water”. Next, Italy and Poland will be responsible for lesson connected with the topic “Earth”. Finally, Finland and Italy will take part in the lesson about the natural element “Air”. To sum up, the realization of this project will be the great opportunity to increase students’ activity, to meet other cultures, traditions as well as the environment the new mates live in. Students and teachers should also exchange their experience, thoughts and ideas. This project hopefully will result in creating the aware members of a society who take care of the environment and the active, healthy life style. Changing students’ and teachers’ attitude towards learning and teaching methods and techniques will help form a well educated, creative person, an active citizen, who solves problems in a constructive way. Our people with communicative language skills and the ability to use ICT will cope as future workers. They will have flexibility, creativity, independence, self-assurance and the ability to work as a member of a team. Among different goals we appreciate the importance of local societies in the modern world. Such problems as environment protection, ability to cope with everyday problems are also of our interest. Modern methods and techniques surely will enrich our knowledge.
The "Ecology and Sport - Two Ways, One Story" project is a response to the needs of modern society, such as taking care of the environment and promoting ecological attitude, leading an active lifestyle, communicating in foreign languages, using ICT tools and technologies, being able to work as a member of a team, broadening horizons and commitment to the local community. Our main goal was to develop students' interests in learning – teaching process and motivate them to learn by using active methods, conducting lessons not only in the school building but also outside the classroom. The objectives of this project was focused especially on key competences especially developing basic skills such as: natural science skills, ability to communicate in foreign languages effectively, digital competences, social and personal competences in the area of learning skills and self-learning management and civic competences. Holistic teaching, combining various school subjects, has contributed to the increase of passion and commitment to acquiring knowledge and developing skills, as well as to the implementation of tasks that students are currently facing. The goal of the project at the time of its realisation was to increase the motivation to learn by making this process more interesting. Showing that learning can be fascinating, innovative and creative was an important part of the project. Teachers as student leaders had the goal to show students that knowledge is very useful and valuable, especially since it can be used in practice. The project was focused not only on the skills that students acquired during the implementation of individual tasks, but was also focused on the long-term process of acquiring knowledge. We are absolutely convinced that the change the attitude to learning and an increase in motivation will last longer than the duration of this project. To encourage students to put their knowledge into practice and stimulate physical activity, four sports and environmental events were planned. During these events, participants had the opportunity to expand their knowledge and develop sports skills. Sports and environmental events were focused on three elements: Earth, air and water. Each partner country was responsible for preparing an event based on one of the natural elements listed above. The elements were selected according to what is most typical of the partner school's environment. During international meetings, we encouraged others to take care of the environment and live in harmony with nature, as well as we also demonstrated that we are for active ways of spending free time. We encouraged community of students, teachers who were not directly involved in the project itself, parents, as well as the local community to participate in environmental events. Environmental events were a great opportunity to form conscious citizenship, especially in the field of environmental protection and pro-ecological attitude. Participants also promoted an active, healthy way of life. The activities were also conducted in the virtual field. We have completed three eTwinning projects: "Natural Water Resources Around Us", "The Earth - Our Home" and "Our Precious Air". During the realisation of eTwinning projects, science and ecological experiments were also carried out. Using the TwinSpace platform these experiments were presented to other partner schools and they were also carried out by other students and teachers. It was a great opportunity to exchange good practices. Thanks to the involvement in this project, both students and teachers were able to develop their digital skills as well. To sum up, the realisation of this project was a great opportunity to increase students and teachers activity, to learn about other cultures, traditions and the environment in which new partners live. Students and teachers also had the opportunity to exchange their experiences, thoughts and ideas. We hope that this project has created conscious members of society who care about the environment and lead an active, healthy lifestyle. Changing students' and teachers' approaches to teaching and learning process by using active methods and techniques is a great value of this project. Realisation of project tasks will also help create a well-educated, creative person, an active citizen who will be able to solve problems in a constructive way. Project participants with communicative language skills and the ability to use ICT tools will cope as future employees. They will have such qualities as: creativity, independence, flexibility, self-confidence and the ability to work in a team. Moreover, modern methods and techniques that have enriched our knowledge will certainly be a lasting value of the completed project.