DISCOVER AND CARE ABOUT YOUR NATURAL SURROUNDINGS

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROJECT

Nowadays nobody can deny that our planet is going through an environment and climate change. We, as educational institutions (Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Greece and Spain), are extremely concerned about our responsibility towards this situation and aim at raising our students’ awareness about it. Hence, we truly believe that our project will highly contribute to this purpose.

The main objective of our project is to make our students conscious of the need to take care about our environment and its sustainability. This will be done through a common thread: a natural park research. This main task along with others will contribute to achieve these objectives: foster key competences for lifelong learning; raise awareness about environment and current climate emergency; improve linguistic and ICT skills; increase knowledge of environment and legal terminology; raise awareness of our natural heritage; highlight democratic participation; develop ability to take initiative, problem solving, collaborative work; boost European citizenship feeling; increase knowledge of European legislation on natural environments protection; foster critical thinking; showcase recycling and reusing.

Our selected priorities are: Environmental and climate goals; Common values, civic engagement and participation; Social and educational value of European cultural heritage. Our objectives are directly linked to them as the main one is make our students conscious of the need to take care about our environment. We also mean to create common values by developing the feeling of European citizenship. Finally we aim at sharing our European heritage by getting to know our natural parks.

Our project is mainly addressed to pupils (from 15 to 17) because its objectives mostly focus on them. It is linked to an Erasmus K229 project. There will be leading activities, along with minor tasks: a research about a natural park will be done; we will investigate on the European legislation on natural parks and check whether it is applied in each country. To improve knowledge of environment and legal terminology, a multilingual glossary on this topic will be made. The next step will be to agree on a list of commandments for sensible behaviour regarding our natural surroundings and environment sustainability. We will also focus on the importance of recycling and reusing our rubbish by making a piece of art of recycled material. Besides, we will have a meeting with the staff in charge of managing the natural park so as to find out what is done for its promotion and maintenance. Next, we will record a short film to raise awareness about the need of sensitive behaviour towards our environment and the sustainability of our planet, and design a contest to check how much we have learnt.

All the products and evidences of our task will be shared in our Twinspace. For project implementation active learning methods will be applied: collaborative work, task and challenge based learning, peer learning, critical thinking and problem solving tasks…