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Photography and Climate Change

2022-1-HU01-KA210-SCH-0000810372022Small-scale partnerships in school educationfinalized
Countries: HU|TR|LT|IT · Grant: €60,000
Environment and climate changeGreen skillsDigital skills and competences

Objectives

In the project, each partner created a photography club that focused on climate change effects on nature and students record pictures, videos to use them at lessons and make exhibitions to draw the attention of others to natural problems. It was important being international for the climate change topic because each country has its own unique climate and vegetation. Sometimes it is necessary to go beyond borders to observe changes that cannot be observed locally within the same country. With the project we were able to observe it in different countries. Via the project, our students had awareness about climate change, endangered animals, air pollution, melting glaciers even. When we had experiences in different countries, we had a wide perspective that some countries can be threatened more than us even we don't live same disasters, hazards, losses, etc. Unfortunately, there were also natural disasters in the partner countries during the 12 months of the project. In Italy, Sicily was devastated by a huge fire as a result of the extreme heat. In Turkey, the earthquake destroyed natural areas, people and animals were in danger. In Lithuania, there were huge floods with ice pieces the size of small balls. This destroyed the crop. I

Background

you have addressed?* In our schools we teach the climate change problems in different ways to the students in different ages. There are real efforts how we can teach climate change to students more effectively. It is hard to teach climate change without any technology and involving scientists or experts. So we discussed that we need to collaborate with scientists who are educated in the field and have scientific knowledge about what's going on in nature and can help the teachers. That's why we collaborated with a UNESCO Geopark (Madonie Geopark) to learn hazards, destroys in such a kind of protected areas and staff that know nature, plants, water, animals better than us. We thought that if the students notice the problem on their own with the help of the teacher's background and take a picture of it, it will cause a stronger effect on the protection of nature in them. Our teachers needed motivation and useful tools for teaching climate change topics. Photography is a powerful tool to make sense of this world we share. Instead of 1000 words,1 photo could be valuable to create climate change awareness for teachers and students. As we are educational organizations we needed to collaborate with other organizations that have knowledg

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