This project is a KA2 strategic partnerships which aims at raising awareness on Climate Change as well as enabling students to be active and find innovative solutions in the face of the challenges ahead. The 4 partner institutions are collège Christine de Pisan, Ataturk Ortaokutu, Istituto comprensivo and CP Alberto Alcocer and we mean to involve around 800 students (aged between 8 and 15) and more than 15 teachers. Context : Having already started an etwinning project on Global Warming, we decided that the next step would be to take actual action in the decarboning of our world. The Erasmus + program seemed to us to be perfect for that purpose as it gave us time and funds. In those two years, we will first take great care to give as much information and knowledge as possible to our students, sharing intelligence and good practices from our different countries and giving our pupils all they need to come up with valuable ideas and to get involved in the changes we must all make tomorrow. Objectives : Our primary objective is to help our young people understand and address the impact of global warming today and increase their "climate literacy" so as to encourage changes in their attitudes and behavior and help them adapt to climate change-related trends, while providing a strong focus on empowering them to take an active role in the solutions to environmental challenges. We also want our students to learn to cooperate and carry out projects while learning to master digital technology. We would like to train our pupils to act responsibly and to respect the rules of collecting living especially in the face of different cultures but also to take initiatives and commit themselves. We also aim to carry out objectives 13 (climate action )and 17 (partnerships for the goals) of the UN sustainable development goals. Description of activities : During the 1st year, the focus will be on imparting scientifically proven knowledge based on the most recent IPCC reports in order both to raise awareness but also to inform the students thoroughly. After designing a project logo, they will therefore take part in the Climate Collage workshop which is a fun and instructive way to introduce the subject and raise interesting questions in their young minds. Researches will then follow which will be shared on google slides leading on to a collaborative Kahoot in March. And in May 2021, we will meet to make a collaborative video with the purpose of raising public awareness. In the 2nd year, we will help our charges take action and engage in the fight for sustainable development. After doing an inventory with collaborative slides, students will set to work on possible actions they could take locally. In April, they will choose which action(s) they will implement and in May 2022 they will meet again to put words into actions. A collaborative video will also be shot to summarize the different actions. Methodology : Our methodology is designed to make the classroom experience more lovable to students by encouraging their creativity and making them want to explore on their own. We will encourage different ideas and give them the freedom to explore. In addition to all this, the learning-by-doing process will enable students to acquire transversal skills that will be extremely useful in their future lives: team work, critical observation, cooperation, negotiation, problem solving, resilience, creative thinking. Results and impact : All the pupils trained to facilitate the Climate collage will be able to raise the awareness of their peers but also of relatives and friends outside of school. Awareness being the prerequisite for action, we expect to see results not only in schools but also in the local community. The collaborative videos we make will be posted online for a wider audience. The Kahoot will be used as a teaching tool in classes. And the local shows highlighting the pupils' research will be there for students and parents to see. All the school community will be able to participate to the school dissemination and training events. Once outcomes are ready, there will be public dissemination events to promote the student's innovative ideas on how to limit climate change. Local Education will be involved and will sustain the project by making results available through their platforms. Local media will be invited to official events in order to understand the potential of the project and advertise it. Thanks to a Project Website all the ideas will be made available to a wider number of users, for an unlimited period of time. Our common goal is to teach in a positive environment, to students who are happy to attend school, and we strongly believe our project will give our bows some extra arrows to shoot. The aim is to make them ready to meet the world challenges with a stronger sense of who they are, what they know and their potential to adapt to and maybe change their environment for the better.
This Erasmus + project is also an eTwinning project which ran for 3 years. Each year, a Twinspace was opened. The aim of the project was to raise our pupils' awareness of global warming and the environmental cause. Firstly, we wanted to provide them with knowledge on these topics, then get them to think about the actions they wanted to take, and support them in implementing them. First of all, this project is the fruit of collaborative work both within our school and with our foreign partners. In our school, six teachers are actively involved in the project activities: teachers of English, French, SVT, Visual Arts, Music Education and Mathematics. From the outset, we worked together with our foreign partners to develop the project, choosing the name, virtual activities and face-to-face activities (during the mobilities), and this continued throughout the project. We also helped each other with all the administrative and financial aspects of Erasmus (Penelope platform, Mobility Tool, etc.). The students worked together for several activities collaboratives : Year 1: project logo, global warming research and completion of collaborative slides (Google), question research and Kahoot creation by international teams, then students played Kahoot together (via Zoom). Year 2: Climate murals in international teams led by French students, editing and production of videos to raise awareness of global warming (one video per international team), composition, by international teams, of the lyrics of the project anthem, singing of the anthem (all together in Spain), production of collaborative awareness-raising posters for exhibitions on Earth Day. Year 3: Flashmob for Erasmus Days, completion of collaborative fact sheets on seasonal fruit and vegetables, writing letters to MEPs and politicians in international teams, FlashMob during mobility in France, singing of the project anthem accompanied by the Christine de Pisan middle school orchestra class. The ways in which the final products were made : Year 1: This first year followed the first lockdown, with our partners seeing their schools shut down more than ours. For the logo, each student had to dessiner its hand and decorer. They were then sent to France by each foreign school, either by post or digitally. The participating French students then collected all the hands to create the logo, with the help of their art teacher. For research and kahoot, pages were created on Twinspace with links to Google collaborative slides. Year 2: Two mobility projects were carried out, one in Aversa and the other in Madrid. The students were able to carry out the following face-to-face activities: the climate murals, awareness-raising videos and writing the lyrics for the anthem were produced in international groups, in the schools hosting the mobilities. Students were divided into groups in different rooms. The students practiced and sang the project anthem in a classroom at the Spanish school. To prepare for Earth Day, collaborative pages were created on Twinspace. Year 3: For the Flashmob, teachers from the French school prepared the choreography and sent it to each school. At each school, during Erasmus Days, local students and teachers were filmed performing the Flashmob. A video montage was then produced to compile the videos from the 4 schools. The letters to MEPs were written in international groups during the mobility program in France. Students were divided into different classrooms, with access to computers. Rehearsals and the singing of the anthem with the college's orchestra class took place in the courtyard of the French college, on the first day of the mobility program in France. The Flashmob was danced again and filmed in Paris, but this time with all the partners together.