How to become a greener eTwinner? The recipe is very simple. Read and watch and I am sure you will become one of our big fans and followers.
The first and the most important ingredient is 4 wonderful partner schools which will cooperate well. Here they are:
Zespół Szkół nr 9, Gimnazjum nr 3, Poland
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Gymnázium Kroměříž, Czech Republic Colegio Internacional Eurovillas, Spain Základná škola s materskou školou, Slovakia
The second ingredient is a few dozens of fantastic students‌
..enthusiastic, active, open and willing to take a challenge ones.
The third ingredient is an international team of hard-working, a bit crazy about eTwinning teachers, who will stick everything together.
Then you need only ‌ a lot of ideas and energy
Write a short description and the objectives in order to let everybody know what they are going to do.
The eccological project full of activities outside the schools. The students have to organise an e-waste campaign, collect ewaste and organise a lot of events connected with the Earth Day such as Ecco Challenge competitions for schoolmates, lessons for children, visiting Eccological Educational Centres/ Recycling Centres. They communicate in English on TwinSpace where all parts of the project are shown.
Showing how we can care about the environment and how to be environmentally friendly
Making students aware of environmental problems
Collecting ewaste from the neighbourhood area
Arousing students’ awareness about electro waste
Encouraging students to improve their language skills and motivate them to learn English
Giving the students opportunities to learn about the other countries Developing abilities of cooperating within a group and solving problems in creative way
Improving ICT tools
Before the e-waste campaign prepare a lot of leaflets and posters All teams created thousands of leaflets and dozens of posters to inform their school and local community about the e-waste campaign. Everything from the beginning was done by the students. They prepared the leaflets on the computers, gave them for printing and cut them up to be ready to distrbute. The students took the leaflets to distribute them to the letter boxes in their neighbourhood area, they handed them out in front of the school to the parents who were comming for a monthly meeting and during the happening. They created a lot of fantastic colourful posters which were placed in the shop windows and on the walls for everybody to know about e-waste collection.
Organise the street happenings and distribute the leaflets. Have fun as well!!!
Visit the Environmental Education Centers/Recycling Centers to get the knowledge about the subject of the project
Each team visited the Educational Environmental Center or Recycling Center in order to: get knowledge about e-waste
get knowledge how e-waste is collected and recycled in their region and country get knowledge about the law connected with e-waste in each country see how the centres collect and recycle different materials talk to the workers
Organise Ecco Challenges for your schoolmates to pass your knowledge, check what they already know and have a lot of fun.
eTwinners organised the Ecco Challenges – special contests and competitions for schoolmates. Puzzles, crosswords, word games, poster contests were chances to show their knowledge about e-waste and recycling and of course learn more in an active and funny way.
Teach in the kindergarten, organise a lesson for small children • Involve eTwinners in working with small children, let them be teachers. • They will learn how to organise ecco tasks and interact with yournger students. • Trust them they can do it very well, most of them have younger brothers and sisters. • Let them act and discover their talents. And admire how responsible they can be.
Organise e-waste collecting in your school as a main event of the project.
If you prepare your street e-waste campaign well, inform your schoolmates, teachers, parents and local community, you can be sure that a collection of e-waste will be a great success.
As you can see all teams were very busy to collect ewaste and really successful
It’s a good idea to inform your school and local community about the project
Let the students communicate during the project, use the tools provided on TwinSpace: forum, chat, the project journal.
After 4-month eTwinning project you will have a lot of greener eTwinners, greener schoolmates of eTwinners, greener families of eTwinners and greener teachers. Isn’t it great?
At the end of this project ... …all eTwinners have a great sense of achievement and fantastic memories.
…all participants are more aware of e-waste problems and recycling
…you think about the next one because you love eTwinning
…the students can cooperate well within a group and solve problems. …the students can communicate within an international group using English.
…the school is recognisable by the local community as an eccofriendly one with creative ideas in teaching/learning