S.A.R.A.H. Project 13/15
S.A.R.A.H. 13/15 “Science Around Us Along History” Zonguldak/Turkey Meeting Report 6
11-14 Nov. 2014
INTRODUCTION This Comenius Project, SARAH is the first Project KOZLU LİSESİ has joined so far. Thus we were very excited and made all the arrangements with great enthusiasm. All the students , parents and teachers involved in the project looked forward to this week.
Programs and activities 1.Monday, October 10th
Spain arrived in Istanbul on the 9th of October. The other participants arrived on the 10th of October. All the participants from eight different countries were welcomed by maths teacher Guner YASKAN in İstanbul. When our guests reached to Zonguldak, all the host students and their families met them with art teacher Selim TAYMAZ and English teacher Servete KEFELİ. The guest students were taken to the houses by host students and the teachers were taken to the hotel Dedeman where they would stay for three nights.
2-Tuesday,October 11th 9:00-10:00 am Students came to school at 8.30 am and they had the chance of meeting the other students and visiting the classrooms and other facilities in Kozlu Lisesi. The teachers were picked up from the hotel and taken to Kozlu Lisesi. The pleanary session was held in the Meeting hall of Kozlu High School.
After welcoming all the teachers and students , Servete KEFELİ introduced our vice Headmistress, Esra BOZKURT. She emphasized that we were honoured to be in this Comenius Europen Project and to host the participants from eight Europan countries.
Then Servete KEFELİ presented the activities for the day and she explained that we were invited to a reception with the District Governor, Ahmet KARAKAYA at 10.30. So we should do four of the presentations in the morning session and rest of them in the afternoon session. Francisco luque RUIZ, the main coordinator of the Project SARAH made a short speech explaining the aim of the Project and his feelings.
The students from Austria, France, Italy and Poland presented their work on RESEARCH and DEVELOMENT and INNOVATIONS centers in their neighbourhood.
Between 10.00 and 10.15 a short coffee break At 10.30 All the participants visited the District Governer, Ahmet KARAKAYA. He welcomed the quests sincerely and gave some information about the mines and life in Kozlu in English.
At 11:30 We went to BÜLENT ECEVİT UNİVERSİTY to get a presentation on the air quality presented by the proffessor Özgür ZEYDAN. Instructor Özgür ZEYDAN from the department of Environmental Engineering in Bülent Ecevit Üniversity presented us Air Pollution. First, he began with the description of air pollution and then air pollutant and sources of air pollutants. He told us air pollutants in two groups as primary and secondary pollutants and went on transport of air pollutants by emphasizing that air pollution is not only Zonguldak's problem but also a global environmental problem. Secondly ha gave us information about the effects of air pollution on human health, on animals and plants, on ecosystem, on materials and visibility. And we learned the air quality in Zonguldak along with Paris, Beijing and Hong Kong. Finally he showed us some beautiful pictures from Zonguldak so that our guests would not remember Zonguldak with only air pollution.
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At 13.00 All the participants had Lunch prepared by parents at school.
At 14.00 The students from Romania, Spain, Turkey and UK went on presenting their work on the Reseach and Development and Innovation Centers. Sweden couldn’t make their presentation because of technical problems.
At 14.40 While some of the students had a workshop on EBRU ART in art class , some of them played volleyball in the gym. After that ,they visited the classes.
Meanwhile the teachers talked about what would happen in the next meetings. David from the UK wanted each country to bring a tile representing their country to be put on the sundial in the UK.
The teachers discussed the number of the experiments which would be done in each school and decided to do at least 20 experiments. The highest 5 and the lowest 5 results will be out of the calculation .
In addition to Project work ,trips to Italy and Poland were also discussed . The responsible teachers wanted all the participants to give information about the time of the flight and the number of the teachers and the students as soon as possible.
16.00 The certificates were given and thestudents left the school with host students. Teachers also left the school and they had free time till 19.30.
The host and quest students spent their free time exploring Kozlu –Zonguldak (between Kozlu and Zonguldak is 4 km). In the evening they had dinner at homes and spend time with the families. At 19.30 Teachers had a nice enjoyable meal in a restaurant with live music.
At 23.00 The teachers went to their hotel.
3-Wednesday,October 12th Exploring Safranbolu and Amasra At 8:30 All the teachers, guest and host students set up for Safranbolu and arrived in Safranbolu at 10:30. After sightseeing around the city we studied on the historical sundials in the garden of Pasha Mosque. At 13:30 We had traditional food for lunch in the village YÖRÜK, later we went to Tokatlı canyon and Crystal terrace. At 17:00 We set up for Amasra and arrived there at about 6pm.We had visited Amasra Castle and and other attractions in Amasra. At 19:00 The guest and host students returned to Zonguldak in the company with the teacher Selim TAYMAZ and the teachers stayed in Amasra to have dinner. At 20:00 When the students arrived in Zonguldak, they ate Turkish kebabs for dinner at Çatı Restaurant. Then they went home.
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE CİTY: SAFRANBOLU Safranbolu is a typical Ottoman city that has survived to the present day. It also displays an interesting interaction between the topography and the historic settlement. By virtue of its key role in the caravan trade over many centuries, Safranbolu enjoyed great prosperity and as a result it set a standard in public and domestic architecture that exercised a great influence on urban development over a large area of the Ottoman Empire. The architectural forms of the buildings and the streets are illustrative of their period. The caravan trade was for centuries the main commercial link between the Orient and Europe. As a result, towns of a characteristic type grew up along its route. With the coming of railways in the 19th century, these towns abruptly lost their raison d'être, and most of them were adapted to other economic bases. Safranbolu was not affected in this way and as a result has preserved its original form and buildings to a remarkable extent.
The site of Safranbolu has been occupied by human settlements since prehistory, as evidenced by rock-cut tombs. The Turks conquered the town in the 11th century and in the 13th century it became an important caravan station on the main east-west trade route. Surviving buildings from this early period include the Old Mosque, Old Bath, and Medresse of Süleyman Pasha, all built in 1322.
The caravan trade reached its apogee in the 17th century, when the central market was extended to meet the requirements of travellers. Many buildings survive from this period, including the Cinci Inn with its 60 guestrooms (1640-48), Koprülü Mosque (1661) and Let Pasha Mosque (1796), as well as many stores, stables and baths. Changes in trading structures and the advent of the railways brought this long period of prosperity to an end in the early 20th century. The town underwent a period of economic deprivation until the building of the Karabük steelworks, which provided a great deal of employment in the region. Safranbolu consists of four distinct districts: the market place area of the inner city, known as Çukur (The Hole), the area of Kıranköy, Bağlar (The Vineyards), and an area of more recent settlement outside the historic area. The original Turkish settlement was immediately in the south of the citadel and developed to the south-east. Safranbolu is famous with Turkish delights.
Amasra Amasra, home to a wide range of historical artifacts from the Hellenistic, Seljuk and Ottoman periods, draws tourist attention to its history, dating back 3,000 years. Visited nearly by 250,000 tourists each year, Amasra is also an attractive place for food enthusiasts, hosting a number of visitors especially during official and religious holidays.
Sleeping Princess:Amasra Amasra about which is said that it was founded 12. Century BC takes its name from the Persian princess Amastris. The new city that was founded by Amastris is as beautiful as the tourism attractions in the South with its unique coast, two bays and two islands. Amasra is still a tourism attraction with Bird Stone Monument (Kus Kayasi Aniti) which is unique in Anatolia, Covered Bazaar (Bedesten) which was probably built for the the Roman government palace, Roman bridge which was built in the reign of the Roman emperor,Claudius, Rabbit Island (Tavsan Adasi) in which there are the ruins of the church, Fatih Mosque which was built 9. Century ,Iรง Kale Mosque, Turkish Bath, theatre, caves.
Habitation is densely populated in the city centre. Some of the houses are in the forest.Most of the houses are made of Stone , wood and reinforced concrete.Historical houses even make their own history with the other buildings in the castle.Because Amasra has got a profound history,old buildings ar even more important.So it is the nostalgy city of the people who want to live the past again.History and the natural beauties are altogether.Amasra marina is being restored so that passenger ships and yachts can approach and stop over.
Amasra is also famous with it’s fishes and salads.
3-Tuesday,October 13th At 8:00 The host and guest students leave Zonguldak for Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. At 12:30 We arrived in Ankara and visited the Natural History Museum. We watched ’Global Warming and Dynamics of Nature’and ’Climate Changes andd the Effects of Changes in the Earth’ on pleanatarium. Then we had lunch at around 14:00. After having finished lunch, we visited The Museum of Anatolian Civillisations, which was chosen the museum of Europe in 1997 by Europan Museum Forum. Later we visited Rahmi Koç Museum, famous for its maritime and navigations instruments. At about 17.30 we went to Natavega Aquarium, the last place where host and guest students were together. At 19:00 It was the time to say goodbye. Host students returned to Zonguldak with their teacher, Selim TAYMAZ. Guest students and teachers set up for İstanbul in company with the Turkish teachers Servete KEFELİ, Güner YAŞKAN and Ayşegül YAYLA. At 21:00 we had dinner at the High Way Restaurant on the way to İstanbul. At 24:00 we arrived at the Grand Hotel.
Capital City ANKARA MTA Natural History Museum This Natural History Museum can be found on the grounds of the MTA on Eskisehir road outside Ankara. The Museum, founded in 1935 by MTA (Mineral Research and Exploration) under Atat端rk's directives, opened its doors to the scientific world and to the public in 1968. Materials collected from geologic, mineralogical, and paleontological research and study are exhibited in this 4,000-squaremeter museum.
Museum of Anatolian Civilisations The superb Museum of Anatolian Civilisations is the perfect introduction to the complex weave of Turkey's ancient past, housing artefacts cherry-picked from just about every significant archaeological site in Anatolia. The museum is housed in a 15th-century bedesten (covered market). The central room houses reliefs and statues, while the surrounding hall displays exhibits from Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Assyrian, Hittite, Phrygian, Urartian and Lydian periods. Downstairs are classical Greek and Roman artefacts and a display on Ankara's history.
Çengelhan Rahmi M. Koç Museum The lower floor is reserved for a carpet gallery, agricultural machinery and pharmaceutical exhibits. Various machines, medicine, everyday life tools and road transport vehicles are exhibited in the ground floor. A brasserie is also at the ground floor. The upper floor hosts sections of rail transport items, toys, communications, scientific instruments, maritime and navigation. There are also sections about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey; Vehbi Koç, Rahmi Koç's father and one of the first industrialists of Turkey, and Ankara city.
4-Friday,October 14th At 9:30 We all went to visit glamorous Dolma bahçe Palace by the Bosphorus . Later we arrived at Sultanahmet and explore around the old city Sultanahmet. After that, we visited Hagia Sofia, which is a very important monument for both civilisations. Next Topkapı Palace was visited before lunch and then lunch was eaten in the famous Sultan Ahmet köftecisi. After lunch we had a visit to the Blue Mosque. During all this visits, a perfect guide accompanied us. The participants were taken to the Covered Bazaar and they had free time to do shopping or sightseeing around. All the partners had an entertaining evening in the Sultanas with traditional Turkish music and belly dancers.
İSTANBUL Istanbul (Turkish: İstanbul) is Turkey's most populous city as well as its cultural and financial hub. Located on both sides of the Bosphorus, the narrow strait between the Black Sea and the Marmara Sea, Istanbul bridges Asia and Europe both physically and culturally. Istanbul's population is estimated to be between 15 and 19 million people, making it also one of the largest cities in Europe and the world.
Sultanahmet-Old City Essentially the Constantinople of the Roman, Eastern Roman/Byzantine, and much of the Ottoman periods, this is where most of the famous historical sights of Istanbul are located.
Dolmabahce Palace Dolmabahce Palace built in 19 th century is one of the most glamorous palaces in the world. It was the administrative center of the late Ottoman Empire with the last of Ottoman Sultans was residing there. After the foundation of the Turkish Republic in Ankara, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk transferred all government functions to the youthful capital but on his visits to Istanbul Ataturk occupied only a small room at Dolmabahce Palace as his own. He stayed, welcomed his foreign guests and made a practical center for national, historical and language congress and for international conferences.
Hagia Sophia is a great architectural beauty and an important monument both for Byzantine and for Ottoman Empires. Once a church, later a mosque, and now a museum at the Turkish Republic, Hagia Sophia has always been the precious of its time..
Topkapi Palace After the conquest of Istanbul by Mehmed the Conqueror at 1453, construction of the Topkapı Palace was started at the year 1460 and completed at 1478 . Palace was built upon a 700.000 squaremeters area on an Eastern Roman Acropolis located at the Istanbul Peninsula between Sea of Marmara, Bosphorus and the Golden Horn. Topkapı Palace, was the administrative, educational and art center of the Empire for nearly four hundred years since Mehmed the Conqueror until Sultan Abdulmecid who is the thirty-first Sultan. Although Palace was abandoned by the Ottoman Dynasty by moving to the Dolmabahçe Palace at middle 19th century, Topkapı Palace was protected its importance everytime After the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, Topkapı Palace, was transformed into a museum at the date April 3th 1924 and it was also the first museum of the Republic of Turkey. Topkapı Palace Museum is covering approximately 400.000 squaremeters at the present day. Topkapı Palace divided from the city from the land-side by the Imperial Walls which is made by Mehmed the Conqueror. It divided from the city also from the sea-side by the Byzantine Walls. Topkapı Palace is one of the biggest palace-museums with its architectural structures, collections and approximately 300.000 archive papers.
Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) The Sultan Ahmed Mosque has one main dome, six minarets, and eight secondary domes. The design is the culmination of two centuries of Ottoman mosque development. It incorporates some Byzantine Christian elements of the neighboring Hagia Sophia with traditional Islamic architecture and is considered to be the last great mosque of the classical period. The architect, Sedefkâr Mehmed AÄ&#x;a, synthesized the ideas of his master Sinan, aiming for overwhelming size, majesty and splendour.
Conclusion First of all, We are greatful for the support of our colleagues and staff in our school. We managed this meeting with help of them, our students and parents. Besides, thanks to this meeting our students gained a new vision about Europe. They enjoyed spending time with the students from abroad and they began to know the different cultures and learnt how important to keep in touch with the foreigners. This meeting also encouraged them to improve their foreign languge English. This Comenius European meeting was a great experience for our parents and students as well as the whole staff at school.
The list of teachers and students
AUSTRIA Teachers Sonja Draxler (f) Georg Wissa (m)
Students Katharina Berger (f) Katharina Weingrill (f)
ITALY Teachers Maria Antonietta Violante (f)
Students Giuseppe Pregnolato (m) Marrone Angela (f) Rosa Pontrandolfi (f)
POLAND Teachers Angelika Jochemczyk (f) Agnieszka Bylica (f)
Students Kamil Wysocki (m) Dawid Zygmunt (m)
FRANCE Teachers Alain Giacometti (m) Laurence Leclerc (f)
Students Romain Colasse (m) Florian Cambot (m) Camille Pujol (f)
ROMAIN Teachers Gabriela Aioanei (f) Cristina Mihaela Păun (f)
Students Micu Costin Gabriel (m) Marcu Alexandru Gheorghe(m)
SPAIN Teachers Francisco Luque Ruiz (m) Lucía Sánchez Ballesteros(f)
Students Ana Teresa García Medina (f) Rafael Iglesias López (m)
SWEDEN Teachers Sofia Fondelius (f) Elin Johansson (f)
Students Filip Lundberg (m) Ida Rundin (f) Robin Pettersson (m)
UNITED KINGDOM Teachers David Auker-Howlett (m)
Students Jack Robins (m) Stuart Burrows (m)
Arrival of the partners: Countries Austria France Italy Poland Romania Spain Sweden U.K
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