ReutilizArte

Hosted by OSOS , contributed by anaimiguel on 20 December 2019

This project aimed to change the attitudes and behaviors of students, parents/guardians and the rest of the community. It brought awareness to the importance of reusing materials, saving raw materials and energy, avoiding environmental pollution and reducing the need for conventional waste treatment. Their interdisciplinary planning emerged from the articulation and interaction that was established among parents/guardians, students and teachers from several subjects of the curriculum
•In general, it consisted on giving a new "life" to materials that would go to the recycling bin or to the waste.

This project was developed by the class “E” of the 5th grade (students between 10 and 12 years old), of the School “E.B.2nd and 3rd cycles Manuel de Figueiredo” from Torres Novas-Portugal.

 
Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives: To promote environmental awareness; To promote a change of attitudes and behaviors towards the environment, in order to prepare students for a conscious, dynamic and informed citizenship facing current environmental problems.
Teacher: anaimiguel
Age group
9-12
Students participating
28

Sentir

After an analysis of daily behavior-social/behavioral/environmental practices and sustainability-the students came up with the following question:  

Why reuse?

Soon, other questions arose:

1. What is “reuse”?

 2. How to reuse?

 3. What materials can or can not be reused?

 4. How and where can the average citizens purchase reusable material?

Imaginar

•Building of robots made from reused materials and writing a descriptive memory (subjects of Citizenship and Development in articulation with Portuguese);
•Building Musical Instruments with reused materials (Musical Education);
• Classroom door decorations (commemoration of Halloween) – “inter-class” contest (Visual/Technological Education, DT/FC and English);
• Creating masks (Visual/Technical Education);
• Reusing yogurt packagings ;
•Collecting used or damaged clothes and recycling them (Technological Education )
 
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Criar

According to the interdisciplinary project design of the class  "ReutiliZARTE“, the following activities were implemented:

• Research and treatment of information and pictures on recycling and reuse.
•Design and build of a robot with reused materials;
•Visualization of videos and debate on environmental education;
•Creation of masks, reusing plastic bottles and other materials, using the main transformation techiniques of the used materials.
•Used/damaged clothes transformation, using bleach, acrylic paints and stamped images, and later taking part in the “ECO-Escolas Fashion Show”.
Create a video
•Making a video.n
 
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Partilhar

In the platform that was used, Google classroom, in which all the students accessed at the beginning of the year, it was made available a set of documents, pictures, texts and videos on the subject addressed. This platform allowed us to monitor the evolution of students' work, as well as the dissemination of it to all students in the class and their respective guardians.

The dissemination of this project to the rest of the community was made through the participation of the students in the Eco-Escolas Fashion Show, with the clothing transformed by the students/teachers and parents/guardians, and respective publication on the School’s website.

An exhibition was also set up at the school with all the work done by the class.

In the platform that was used, Google classroom, in which all the students accessed at the beginning of the year, it was made available a set of documents, pictures, texts and videos on the subject addressed. This platform allowed us to monitor the evolution of students' work, as well as the dissemination of it to all students in the class and their respective guardians.

The dissemination of this project to the rest of the community was made through the participation of the students in the Eco-Escolas Fashion Show, with the clothing transformed by the students/teachers and parents/guardians, and respective publication on the School’s website.

An exhibition was also set up at the school with all the work done by the class.