Today environmental awareness can no longer only be important for individuals. With increasing pollution, it is our duty to raise everyone's awareness and to improve the situation. Today plastic is a material that is used in a variety of ways in industry and in everyday life. This project aims to inform students about the production, use, reuse and difficult disposal of plastic and at the same time to make them aware of the often senseless use of plastic in their own environment in families and schools. They will become motivated to be careful and critical with polluting substances in general and with plastic in a special way and to learn to avoid them to a large extent. At the same time they work together with students from other European countries, learn to communicate and to understand the differences between themselves and the others. They improve their language and their ICT skills, become self-confident and train their team spirit. Schools from Sweden, Spain, the Czech Republic and Germany are involved in the project. Students are between 13 and 16 years old and English is their communication language. Five international meetings are planned. The first will serve as a kick-off meeting for teachers. All relevant dates, agreements, forms and the exact project schedule will be drawn up. In addition, all teachers involved will be instructed in eTwinning and its platform. eTwinning is used as a communication platform and at the same time as a source of materials and resources. The four further international meetings are planned with students. They will present their previously developed work to the partner students and receive new impulses from them. In preparation for the international meetings, the students will work on the project topic at home, collect material, develop plans, gather new impulses on excursions and meetings with experts and process them into presentations, which they will show to their partners in English when they visit a school abroad. Together, all schools will design a brochure that provides information on the use and disposal of plastic and has an attachment to ideas and addresses, where to buy plastic-free and what options for upcycling are available. The project is expected to raise awareness among all involved, i.e. students, teachers, families, friends, of the fact where, how often and why we use plastic and where it can be replaced by other substances. This awareness will also change the students' and families' consumer behavior and lead to plastic-free or reduced shopping. In the long run this project will expand the environmental awareness of students, families, teachers and friends. This awareness will then extend to other areas of environmental problems and will have its positive effects far beyond school. The students will become self-confident, open-minded and tolerant citizens and future voters.
Today environmental awareness can no longer only be important for individuals. With increasing pollution, it is our duty to raise everyone's awareness and to improve the situation. Today plastic is a material that is used in a variety of ways in industry and in everyday life. This project aims to inform students about the production, use, reuse and difficult disposal of plastic and at the same time to make them aware of the often senseless use of plastic in their own environment in families and schools. They got motivated to be careful and critical with polluting substances in general and with plastic in a special way and to learn to avoid them to a large extent. At the same time they worked together with students from other European countries, learned to communicate and to understand the differences between themselves and the others. They improved their language and their ICT skills, became self-confident and trained their team spirit. Schools from Sweden, Spain, the Czech Republic and Germany were involved in the project. Students were between 13 and 16 years old and English was their communication language. Five international meetings were planned. The first served as a kick-off meeting for teachers. All relevant dates, agreements, forms and the exact project schedule were drawn up. In addition, all teachers involved were instructed in eTwinning and its platform. eTwinning was used as a communication platform and at the same time as a source of materials and resources. The four further international meetings were planned with students. They presented their previously developed work to the partner students and received new impulses from them. In preparation for the international meetings, the students worked on the project topic at home, collected material, developped plans, gathered new impulses on excursions and meetings with experts and processed them into presentations, which they showed to their partners in English when they visited a school abroad. In the course of the project, participants took part in various workshops, do-it-yourself projects and experiments. Due to the difficult conditions in Corona times, the first implementations could only take place via online meetings. The project was expected to raise awareness among all involved, i.e. students, teachers, families, friends, of the fact where, how often and why we use plastic and where it can be replaced by other substances. This awareness also changed the students' and families' consumer behavior and led to plastic-free or reduced shopping. In the long run this project expanded the environmental awareness of students, families, teachers and friends. This awareness then extended to other areas of environmental problems and had its positive effects far beyond school. The students became self-confident, open-minded and tolerant citizens and future voters.