Problem
Past, present and future of the village healthy agriculture
The solution
Learn how to cultivate organic products
The prototype
Cultivation of organic plants and a rocket
The societal actors
Families (parents and grandparents), locan non profitable organisation
Hosted by SALL , contributed by ΨΑΡΙΔΟΥ on 7 July 2022
The students of the Minority school of Dokos will collaborate with their families and a local non profitable organisation in order to produce organic plants (mainly vegetables) that will be later be planted in their home grardens and keep seeds for the following years. In this case healthier vegetables without additions will be produced and families will obtain healthier habits
Teacher:
ΨΑΡΙΔΟΥ
Dob učenika
6-7
8-9
10-11
Main/mother literacy, language, literature
Projektna tema
Provedba
Start working
Reading the book "Three generations" of farmers we saw that we had a lot in common but also a lot differences with the farmers in France. That's why we decided to deal a little more with how our grandparents cultivated their fields in the past, our fathers and mothers today, but also how we might cultivate these fields when we grow up.
When we got home, we looked through our photo albums and found some pictures of our grandparents in their fields. Some of us did small interviews with them and announced to the class that their life was very difficult and demanding and that the hours they spent in the fields were too many. Some others said they worked in the fields from a very young age (as we are today). Some others brought tools that their grandparents used in their fields and we saw that some were similar to ours and some we had a hard time understanding how they used them.
A grandfather helped us a lot by making a miniature plow for us. Another students brought the miniature cows and we went to the neighboring estate and tried it out.
We talked about organic seeds. We realized that in order to be able to maintain a good quality of life we should save our own organic seeds from our vegetable crops. So we asked the local organization SPORITES TIS KOMOTINI to give us their own organic seeds so that we could start our crops. With great joy, they gave us seeds of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant,peppers and many others.
We got soil and bags and in mid-January we started planting them. After few weeks the first plants started to emerge. With a lot of care and love and having made a watering program we grew them and distributed them throughout the village. Now everyone has our own organic vegetables.
We had a brainstorm activity about the future of the cultivation. Will we be able to cultivate are own fields in Earth or not? Just to be sure, we got ready for cultivation in other planets While our schools were closed I created and sent to my students instructions for building a rocket with recyclable materials through an e-book. It looks a lot like a normal book that you turn the pages. Each of us made our own rocket into which we will put the organic seeds that we will keep from our plants.
