Hosted by OSOS , contributed by BEKA on 19 October 2019
Climate change issues are a big concern for all people nowdays. Climate is the average of the weather (temperature, rainfall, humidity, etc) prevailing in one place. Climate change is due to natural or anthropogenic causes.
The project aims at raising interest and stimulating debate on climate issues, risks and impacts for students, so as their activities can contribute positively to the reduction of climate change and be aware of the fact that natural resources are being exhausted and therefore only by adopting an eco-sustainable lifestyle could limit the damage. This project will contribute to increase public awareness on global and local aspects on climate change.
Students will organize different activities such as brain storming, crafts, experiments, theater performances, dramatization, role play, participatory games, educational activities, workshops, science demonstrations, robotic and they will also try to raise parents and society awareness of climate change phenomena and the related impacts with events such as inviting experts and scientists and publishing actions and results on posters, websites and local press.
The aims of the project are:
- Strengthen children's knowledge of climate change at their country.
- Increase awareness of the risks and the impacts of climate change.
- Increase interest and learn to debate on climate issues, risks and impacts.
- Be able the students to explain the phenomenon of drought and water scarcity and understand their relationship to climate change.
- Understand the term extreme weather phenomena and their implications as a consequence of climate change.
- Learn to contribute positively to the reduction of climate change.
- Adopt an eco-sustainable lifestyle that can limite the damage of climate change.
- Learn to compose and express their ideas with expressive completeness.
The procedure of the project is:
Students will work individually and in small groups and they will try to interact.
They will develop different activities about all seasons and the climate chnge and its effect on the environment, leaves, making leaves book, temperature, rain, humidity, crafts, experiments, role play, tree planting, robotic, discussion about lack of water and drought, cooperation with local experts as environmentalist etc, wind, ice, recycling and recycling bins, dissemination of our results etc.
Our results can be disseminated to dialogue among teachers, students, parents, stakeholders and local community. In addition to participatory activities, educational science activities will be held to investigate some scientific topics on climate change. First, we will develop different activities to see how the environment is effected by the seasons and the climate change and second, we will present our findings to the other teachers, students, parents, stakeholders and local community.
Photos can be seen at https://photos.app.goo.gl/91eRDWerDm6tEsYs5
Feel
The aim of the proposed accelerator is to reach the shared idea that each of us, especially young people, with their actions can contribute positively to the reduction of climate change and be aware of the fact that natural resources are being exhausted and therefore only by adopting an eco-sustainable lifestyle could limite the damage. This project will contribute to increase public awareness on global and local aspects on climate change.
The proposal contributes to a campaign, through the school’s community, for climate change from the “informative” to the “active” phase, through the exchange and dissemination of the best practices, with specific actions aimed at encouraging the involvement of citizens in actions. Moreover, the involvement of society in climate change issues is fundamental for the development of effective adaptation and mitigation strategies, as well as in the implementation of actions to minimize the impacts of climate change.
We can start by asking different questions to our students as for examble:
1. Did you noticed that the weather is changed?
2. Why it is raining?
3. Where the rain comes from? How it is sound?
4. We should have more rain in autumn but we don't. Can you think of why?
5. What do you observe in our environment?
6. Have you heard that the ice in Antarctica is melting?
7. Why do you think this is happening?
8. What will hapen to the animals that leave there? What about the water?
9. How do the change of seasons and the climate change will effect our environment?
10. How do we sense these changes?
The principal results obtained during our project will be:
Student's and the whole school community will learn what extent climate change is caused by human activity and to what extent it is a natural phenomenon.
Imagine
We can tell the students to define eco - sustainable actions in their school for a correct ethical - social behavior to actively counteract the reduction of climate change. As an example find information about how to use water, energy or waste in an eco-sustainable way and do not waste important resources.
With the actions proposed, the whole school community will make a commitment to strengthen their efforts at the local level in a global action, by gathering their practices in science communication and public engagement in climate change issues.
In this context, two main objectives are identified for the project:
The first one is to identify the problem that climate has changed in our country so we have a lot of heat and little rain and to develop activities of climate change to erase student's interest.
The second one is to organize a campaign, through the exchange and dissemination of the best practices, with specific actions aimed at encouraging the involvement of school community in actions.
Such objectives are achieved through a coordinated work plan of activities during the project.
Create
A large range of activities concerning climate change (crafts, experiments, exhibitions, school labs, science demonstrations, games) will be organised by the students, in order to raise schools community knowledge and to engage people in positive actions.
The first step will be to found information about the climate change and develop various activities aimed at raising student's awareness of climate change phenomena and the related impacts. A wide range of communication tools will be considere, such as brain storming, crafts, experiments, demonstrations, theater performances, dramatization, role play, participatory games, educational activities.
The second step will be to inform the whole school community about our results with different events such as posters, performances, theater etc. The main audience of school can be divided into two clusters: families of the students and other teachers, stakeholders.
Finally, all activities will be uploaded at the school website, as well as in specific ones, such as press releases, printed announcements and posters. The project provided the public with different levels of information, allowing various degrees of depth according to the needs and backgrounds of the public.
Activities (all photos can be reached at https://photos.app.goo.gl/91eRDWerDm6tEsYs5 ) :
1. The school website with all activities https://blogs.sch.gr/4nipnioniasmag/
2. Local press Taxydromos https://www.taxydromos.gr/Topika/347691-sxoleio-anoixto-sthn-koinwnia-to-4o-nhpiagwgeio-n-iwnias.html
3. We informed parents about our project and what we are about to do and for what reason.
4. Experiment with plants. 3 plants one in a closet with no water and sun, one in a dark place with water and no sun and one in the sun and with water. They see how important are the sun and the water for the plants.
5. Experiment for the Circle of the Water with gas and water. We put a metal disc above the boiled water to see the waterdrops.
6. We observed plant leaves with the magnifying glass and with the microscope and we made our book with leaves.
7. We made the logo of our project.
8. We cleaned our school yard from trash and recyclable trash and we planted trees with the help of a parent.
9. Experiment with white flowers and coloured water with paint so as the students can discover how the plants absorb the water.
10. Playing with the software of WWF "Climate is in your hand". Ativities about water, waste and energy. Playing games for energy so as to save energy.
11. We planted lentils like farmers to watch the development of a plant with the sun and water.
12. We drawed what we wear at the seasons depending on the temperature.
13. We made thermometers with drawings.
14. We made a track with temperatures and we played with our Bee bot.
15. We did the experiment with the ice that melt.
16. We have made dolls for the 12 months from used materials discussing with students the weather and the temperature of each month.
17. We invited a Fire Department spokesman to talk to the students about fires, the forests and the impacts of climate change.
18. We invited an environmentalist and we did activities about the climate change and what can we do to help with the problem.
19. Playing with the Kids First Coding & Robotics trying to find the source of the water.