The project "LITTLE EXPLORERS" aims to become that earth globe that every boy and girl looks at and points with the finger where their imagination takes them, we will make them daydream, they will travel to new places far and near at the same time, thanks to our wonderful Europe that will make us achieve this educational challenge. This ambitious idea of taking the world to the educational classroom has already begun its journey in Spain as Educational Center Project since the academic year 2016/2017 in the Erasmus + project coordinating school, the CEIP NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA PAZ, since its inception had a marked international character so the jump to European mobility projects was necessary and above all fundamental to consolidate and complete their educational and educational sense. Taking into account the three pillars of our project: Early school dropout / Combat school failure. -Citizenship, European conscience and democracy -Research and innovation. The main objectives are: 1. To encourage the development of activities aimed at the motivation towards learning in order to reduce the dropout rates derived from the lack of interest in the acquisition of knowledge. 2. To consolidate through the Eramus + project of the integration of ethnic minorities and at risk of social exclusion. Promote equal opportunities between men and women. 3.To involve the entire educational community, municipalities, parents, families, businesses, social organizations .... 4. To obtain the knowledge of a second language that will lead to a future academic development within the European scope. 5. To assimilate the importance of the values associated with European democracies. 6. To use new technologies and robotics in the classroom through communication between the different countries participating in this project. 7. To know educational and social realities in different European countries but that share similar characteristics among them. 8. To know of different pedagogy in similar environments used by different European countries to extrapolate them to the realities of the participating centers. 9. To continue the maintenance of the relations established between the different participating centers. The participants will be boys and girls from 10 to 12 years old who are enrolled in the participating educational centers, who will be the ones who will enjoy the different mobilities programmed, as well as the 2075 boys and girls and 265 education professionals who will also be contact and work as a team within the framework of the ERASMUS + project and using the ETWINNING platform. To achieve these objectives, we have considered a series of activities among the participating centers, such as: - Collaboration of the entire educational community for the development of the activities, in order to involve them in the importance of Primary Education, as well as continuity in Secondary Education. - Activities in coordination with the teachers of the specialty of English dealing with various topics: locality, daily customs, great explorers of the country, popular games and typical foods. activities will be recorded through the etwinning platform. - Practice robotics activities with Blue Bot and mbot. - Use of computer platforms such as etwinning and applications for tablets such as Eduloc. - Exchanges of activities carried out in each country. - Continue with collaborative activities after completing the project. The methodology to use in the execution of the project will consist in the achievement of meetings through internet and in the mobilities for the distribution of tasks and above all for the realization of documents for evaluation, performance and operation of the different objectives that this project intends. . The media impact will be very broad in all countries thanks to the media action plan that will start from the first day of the project and will be prepared by the dissemination committee of our project. This project will be a bridge that we want to keep bringing together the participating peoples, keeping them in time and promoting their continuity so that in the long term it will benefit the entire educational community of the participating schools. WE WERE BORN TO EXPLORE WE EXPLORE TO LIVE.
The "LITTLE EXPLORERS" project has become that globe that every boy and girl looks at and points to places where their imagination takes them, the dream come true, they have traveled to new places far and near at the same time, thanks to our wonderful Europe that has led us to achieve this educational challenge. This ambitious idea of bringing the world to the educational classroom began its journey in Spain as a Center Educational Project from the 2016/2017 academic year at the College coordinating the Erasmus + project, CEIP NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA PAZ, from its origin it had a marked international character Therefore, the leap to European mobility projects was necessary and above all essential to consolidate and complete its training and educational sense. Taking into account the three pillars of our project: -Early school dropout / Combat school failure. -European citizenship, European awareness and democracy -Research and innovation. The main objectives have been: 1. Encourage the development of activities aimed at motivating learning in order to reduce the percentages of school dropouts derived from lack of interest in acquiring knowledge. 2. Consolidation through the Eramus + project of the integration of ethnic minorities and those at risk of social exclusion. Promote equal opportunities between men and women. 3. Involvement of the entire educational community, municipalities, parents, families, companies, social organizations ... 4. To obtain the knowledge of a second language that derives in a future academic development within the European scope. 5. Assimilation of the importance of the values associated with European democracies. 6. Use of new technologies and robotics in the classroom through communication between the different countries participating in this project. 7. Knowledge of educational and social realities in different European countries but that share similar characteristics between them. 8. Knowledge of different pedagogy in similar environments used by different European countries to extrapolate them to the realities of the participating centers. 9. Vocation of continuity through maintaining the relationships established between the different participating centers. The participants have been boys and girls aged 10 to 12 enrolled in the participating educational centers, who have participated in three physical mobilities and one virtual, as well as the 2,075 boys and girls and 265 education professionals who have participated in video calls and activities as a team within the framework of the ERASMUS + project. The achievement of these objectives has been thanks to a series of activities carried out among the participating centers, such as: - Collaboration of the entire educational community for the development of activities, in order to involve them in the importance of Primary Education, as well as continuity in Secondary Education. - Activities in coordination with teachers of the English specialty dealing with various topics: locality, daily customs, great explorers of the country, popular games and typical foods. the activities will be recorded through the etwinning platform. - Robotics activities practice with Blue Bot, LEGO WEDO. - Use of computer platforms such as etwinning and tablet applications such as Eduloc. - Exchanges of activities carried out in each country and virtual mobility caused by the pandemic. - Continue with collaborative activities after finishing the project. The methodology used in the execution of the project was based on the agreements in the online meetings and in the mobilities for the distribution of tasks and above all for the realization of evaluation documents, performance and operation of the different objectives of the project. The media coverage has been very important, especially in the coordinating country where we have appeared in media such as RTVE, ONDA CERO, CASTILLA LA MANCHA MEDIA, ABC, dedicating programs and articles to our project. In addition, the success of our project has led to our coordinator, Manuel José Carpintero, being awarded as the best teacher in Castilla La-Mancha. This project has been, is and will be a bridge that we want to continue to unite the participating peoples, maintaining them over time and promoting their continuity, so that, in the long term, it will benefit the entire educational community of the participating schools. We have overcome a pandemic together in the distance. WE WERE BORN TO EXPLORE WE EXPLORE TO LIVE.