Climate Action PROJECT 2020
"CLIMATE ACTION PROJECT, leaded by KOEN TIMMERS and JENNIFER WILLIAMS aims to change students' behavior and societies' mindset concerning climate change and environmental threats through education.
The Climate Action project is launched in October 2020 or the fourth consecutive time involving 1 to 10 million students across 107 countries. It is supported by governments in 15 countries. The project is free, student-centered and aims to lead to a change of behavior through education. It is in collaboration with WWF and NASA, and endorsed by Jane Goodall, President Higgins, Kumi Naidoo, scientists and public figures. It was covered by media across 45 countries including BBC, CNN and National Geographic.
What to expect?
During 6 weeks, students will brainstorm, explore, create, discuss and share their findings online. They will try to solve problems and take action.
Each week they create a video of their findings to be published to this website. This way students are able to learn from their peers globally and will discover that climate change may appear very differently in other parts of the world. During the last week there will be live, virtual interactions via video conferencing tools, so students are able to share their findings live. We also will have hosting experts during webinars so students are able to learn from world-renowned experts.
The SDGs Action! Erasmus+ team agreed to join this project as it perfectly fits with our project goals: integrate SDGs into our school curricula and participate in international campaign. So we will spread the message to our communities and all over the world."
Students will experience collaborative learning, learning by doing, they will increase their creativity, empathy and they will also improve their critical thinking. by joining this project, they will become one more time, real problem solvers!
Week 1: exploration, causes OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE
Greenhouse gases
Causes of the Climate Change
Farming, chemicals, gases, sprays, deforestation ...
Plastic
The use of plastic products
Causes of Climate Change
Deforestation, Greenhouse effect, Intensive farming, industrialization
Gases
What is climate change - what would be your definition?
What is causing climate change locally?
Upload our students' work in a video :
FRANCE
In France, we learnt the difference between weather and climate. Then we learnt what are the causes of Climate change. We made two posters.
We also made an experiment to prove that CO2 causes an increase of temperature.
CATALONIA
In Catalonia we watched some videos about The climate Change and then, we made an ACROSTIC all together.
After that, we prepared a video showing some of the causes of the Climate Change
Finland - In the Oulu University Teacher Training school grade 3a worked with the causes of climate change. We read a children`s book about climate change and watched a video about Paxi and the climate change. With the help of those materials pupils made a list about the causes. After that they worked in groups and each group made a poster about one of the causes. They prepared the presentations about their topic and by that way disseminated the basic information e.g. about micro particles and fossil fuel. Pupils also created art work by combining two photos of plants from their digital herbariums (made by Trello application) and their own self portrait. They used PixlE ( https://pixlr.com/fi/e/ ).During their English lessons pupils practised to use online dictionaries and translated the main words about their climate change topics in English.
On music lessons they created the soundscapes into their landscape paintings.As a conclusion -by combining all that- we created a video - a multimedia presentation about the Causes of Climate Change. You can watch it here:
BULGARIA
Students of grade 1, 3 and 4 of SU Ekzarh Antim I, Kazanlak, Bulgaria presented their opinion about causes of climate change : The use of plastic products, The result of human activities, Petrol spill in the ocean.
We made poster, application and experiment
ITALY
Students have reflected on definitions of climate and wheatear and on the causes.
The results of this reflection in the video:
Week 2:What are the effects of the Climate Change?
EFFECTS of the CLIMATE CHANGE
Melting poles
Warm temperatures make the ice of the poles melting so fast
Diseases
The Global warming increases the life of more virus transmitted from the living beings. Plants, animals and even humans are suffering more diseases
Human activities destroys nature
Effects of Climate Changes
Global Warming, Melting of the Ice, Raising ocean levels, Migration of Populations, Migration of Animals, Acid Rain, Soil Acidification, Desertification...
The effects of the Climate Change: by Sant Josep school
The effects of Climate change by SU Ekzarh Antim I, Kazanlak, Bulgaria
The effects of Climate change by ICS "Romualdo Trifone", Montecorvino Rovella, Italy
Week 3: Causes and effects globally
CAUSES AND EFFECTS GLOBALLY
What are causes and effects globally?
Are there any other Environmental Issues (pollution, water, biodiversity, etc)?
Students connect with peers in other schools/countries. Videos and connections with other schools:
France and Catalonia meeting with a school from Hyherabad, India
CLIMATE ACTIION , week 3: meeting with other students from other countries!
A great experience to share our learnings and the effects of the Climate change in our countries: India, France and Catalonia
Italy meets Brazil
During the week 3 of the Climate Action Project, Italian students met a Brazilian school (Criciuma city) and talked with them about several aspects of Climate change ...
Great experience and common reflections and perplexities for 2 very far countries located in different continents!
Week 4: solutions
SOLUTIONS
What are potential solutions?
Students try to create prototypes or give ideas of how to act!
Proposals from Catalonia
Our children are the CLLUE! they teach the adults " SOS PLANET EARTH". Little actions from each one of us can become the largest change!!!
Proposals from the Bulgarian students from SU Ekzarh Antim I, Kazanlak
Ideas for governement and Individual Actions from Italian Students
Week 5: Inter-act!
INTER- ACT!
Students exchange findings during live interactions
Webinars by Experts.
ACTION!
Students take action and bring change at school, home, community, government.
CLIMATE CHANGE ESCORNABOTS GAME
Pupils from Sant josep school designed and created a board game with escornabots.
They worked in pairs and prepared one of the squares of the game with a question and the answer.
Then,... time to play!
And last but not least! they shared the game with the other groups of the school!
The game document with questions and answers:
escornabot game.pdfWeek 6: Action!
Can you imagine how many people will take part in our GREEN WEEK ? students, teachers and families from our 6 partner schools will get involved in a very special week: GREEN WEEK. We will share our actions , we will learn and we will spread the message again.
Monday " WE ARE GREEN" everyone of us and our students should wear something" Green" or all dressed in green, as a symbol of sustainability, and the start of Green Week.
- Tuesday " WE ARE LIGHT" : choose 10 minutes during the day and turn off all ( or most of them) the lights and switches of the school.
- Wednesday " WE ARE HEALTHY" , bring something healthy at school, for example a piece of fresh fruit or vegetables
- Thursday " WE ARE NOT PLASTIC" , report about how many plastic objects we have at school that could be changed by other sustainable ones ( interactive image, photos...)
- Friday " WE ARE LIFE" : Planting seeds, aromatic plants, a tree, flowers in the garden..
CERTIFICATES OF PARTICIPATION:
Hi Fina!
This is fantastic! I love how you organized the week and documented all the incredible actions using Padlet! Your "We are ___." guiding messages are empowering and inspiring! Thank you so much for sharing this over! Congratulations!
Kind regards, Jen and Koen
Dr. Jennifer Williams
www.jenwilliamsedu.com @JenWilliamsEdu
Co-founder, TeachSDGs and Take Action Global
Author, Teach Boldly: Using Edtech for Social Good (ISTE)
President of the Board, ISTE Education Leaders PLN
Named in Top 30 K12 IT Influencers for 2020