About Our Project
About:
The project aims to raise children's awareness of protecting and respecting the environment through knowledge of the beauties of our planet Earth, with a focus on the Green theme.
A profound respect for the environment goes beyond the concepts of utility and necessity to reach those of beauty and well-being. The project, in fact, aims to promote the importance of caring for greenery from an early age through education in the BEAUTY of green living as an essential experience that promotes our well-being and our sense of belonging to the Earth. The project, starting from the observation and analysis of the spaces in which we live (school, home, town...), aims to involve students in becoming protagonists and supporters of a green transformation, making them responsible for caring for the landscape. The activities will range from knowledge of the typical plants of each partner's territory and their characteristics, to their use in the kitchen and in the healthcare sector, up to the representation of greenery in art, literature and cinema. To this end, civic education workshops, educational gardens, direct field experiences and creative activities will be offered, also with the involvement of parents.
The path includes various moments of reflection and sharing between students, of open exchange and knowledge with partners, through the creation of cooperative products and peer-to-peer activities.
Aims:
Students will reflect and deal with some questions as: How does our perception of living a space change if we introduce plants? How do plants make our food tasty? How do experiences in nature help our well-being.? How does green enrich creativity in art, literature and cinema?
Knowing the main characteristics of some typical plants and creating green spaces in our living environments, reflecting on how our perception of living in a space changes if we introduce plants.
Know the main features of aromatic and medicinal plants and the importance of their use for our well-being.
Recognize the creative role of greenery in art, literature and cinema.
Contribute by adopting correct behavior in caring for the environment
Cooperate to achieve a common goal.
Project Plan:
October- November:
December: Green in Countries
January: Green foods
February: Green in books and cinema
March: Green in Arts
April: Green in the place I live
Reflecting on how human's wrong behaviors transform the natural landscape: students take photos or surf the net looking for images and news relating to facts and events that have transformed their territory and share them on a reportage (video in mother tongue with subtitles)
May: Fascination of Plants Day (18th May 2024)
EXPECTED RESULTS
Students develop citizenship skills
Students develop critical thinking
Students develop decision-making skills
Students develop creativity
Students plan and collaborate to achieve a common goal
Students learn how to improve and enhance the place where they live
Students undertake and complete a task responsibly
Students improve self-esteem and motivation
The project aims to raise children's awareness of protecting and respecting the environment through knowledge of the beauties of our planet Earth, with a focus on the Green theme.
A profound respect for the environment goes beyond the concepts of utility and necessity to reach those of beauty and well-being. The project, in fact, aims to promote the importance of caring for greenery from an early age through education in the BEAUTY of green living as an essential experience that promotes our well-being and our sense of belonging to the Earth. The project, starting from the observation and analysis of the spaces in which we live (school, home, town...), aims to involve students in becoming protagonists and supporters of a green transformation, making them responsible for caring for the landscape. The activities will range from knowledge of the typical plants of each partner's territory and their characteristics, to their use in the kitchen and in the healthcare sector, up to the representation of greenery in art, literature and cinema. To this end, civic education workshops, educational gardens, direct field experiences and creative activities will be offered, also with the involvement of parents.
The path includes various moments of reflection and sharing between students, of open exchange and knowledge with partners, through the creation of cooperative products and peer-to-peer activities.
Aims:
Students will reflect and deal with some questions as: How does our perception of living a space change if we introduce plants? How do plants make our food tasty? How do experiences in nature help our well-being.? How does green enrich creativity in art, literature and cinema?
Knowing the main characteristics of some typical plants and creating green spaces in our living environments, reflecting on how our perception of living in a space changes if we introduce plants.
Know the main features of aromatic and medicinal plants and the importance of their use for our well-being.
Recognize the creative role of greenery in art, literature and cinema.
Contribute by adopting correct behavior in caring for the environment
Cooperate to achieve a common goal.
Project Plan:
October- November:
- project application and joining of partners
- Promotional video editing
- Meeting and introduction on a bulletin board
- Logo working and choosing with survey
- Pre project survey (Parents , teachers, students)
December: Green in Countries
- Teachers prepare countries plant box
- Students will first get to know their own plants. They will prepare a board about them.
- It will be introduced to other countries.
- They will ask each other questions about these plants in a webinar.
- Classes exchange their seeds.
January: Green foods
- Aromatic plants in my Country (Genially Map and games for partners)
- Our best (simple) recipes with aromatic plants (video tutorial creation)
- Partner’s recipe try (couple of partners)
- Green greeting cards exchange
February: Green in books and cinema
- Reading tales and focusing on green elements and topics.
- Games creation for partners upon “green” elements in famous storytales
- Digital storytale common product: rewriting storytale without green elements.
- Watching together and sharing opinions upon the movie “Wall-E”
March: Green in Arts
- Painters who paint nature paintings in different countries can be researched. countries can promote the pictures to other countries.
- Coding and augmented reality activity (Pixel art for Green, Arts & Culture, … )
April: Green in the place I live
- Green corner creation (school presentation: our classroom before and after)
- Green corner at home (presentation on padlet)
Reflecting on how human's wrong behaviors transform the natural landscape: students take photos or surf the net looking for images and news relating to facts and events that have transformed their territory and share them on a reportage (video in mother tongue with subtitles)
May: Fascination of Plants Day (18th May 2024)
- Photos sharing and best photo survey
- Common Treasure Hunt in our School Garden (using apps: Google Hearth, BirdNET …)
- Final project surveys (parents , teachers, students)
- Evaluation
- Collaborative magazine useful for dissemination
EXPECTED RESULTS
Students develop citizenship skills
Students develop critical thinking
Students develop decision-making skills
Students develop creativity
Students plan and collaborate to achieve a common goal
Students learn how to improve and enhance the place where they live
Students undertake and complete a task responsibly
Students improve self-esteem and motivation
Integration Into The Curriculum
Our Pre-project Survey Working
Parents Survey
Şehit Erkan Kendirci Elementary School 2nd-F grade students' parents participated in the pre-project survey activities of The Beauty of Green eTwinning Project between October 26-27, 2023. The survey was prepared and applied with the Google doc program. The Parents expressed their ideas before the project.
Students Survey
Şehit Erkan Kendirci Elementary School 2nd-F grade students participated in the pre-project survey activities of The Beauty of Green eTwinning Project between October 23-24, 2023. The survey was prepared and applied with the Google doc program. The students expressed their ideas before the project.
Project Logo Works
Şehit Erkan Kendirci Elementary School 2-F grade students participated in the logo event of our class for The Beauty Of Green eTwinning Project between October 30-31, 2023. Students have designed logos for our project. Then, the students voted on the logos that will represent our class among the designed logos. The result of the vote is Ülkü D. the logo designed by was chosen first
Şehit Erkan Kendirci İlkokulu 2-F class students participated in the project logo voting activity for the The Beauty Of Green eTwinning Project on December 8, 2023. Students from 8 schools from 5 countries participated in the voting to determine the project logo among the logos.
Green In Countries
Endemic Plant
Şehit Erkan Kendirci Primary School 2-F class students participated in the Turkey plant box activity for The Beauty Of Green eTwinning Project on December 1, 2023. Students recognized Saffron, an endemic plant native to the Black Sea Region. They painted the saffron flower. They prepared the school board.
Şehit Erkan Kendirci Primary School 2-F class students participated in the Plant Boxes activity for The Beauty Of Green eTwinning Project between 11-12 December 2023. Students watched the presentations sent by other schools and recognized the plants. They colored coloring pages of plants. They prepared a school board.
Plants Cards Exchange
Şehit Erkan Kendirci Primary School 2-F class students participated in the Turkey plant cards activity for The Beauty Of Green eTwinning Project on December 4, 2023. Students prepared New Year cards introducing the saffron plant. They sent the cards to Italy and Greece by mail.
Recieve cards from Italy & Greece
Within the scope of The Beauty Of Green eTwinning Project, Şehit Erkan Kendirci Primary School 2-F class students received their cards from Italy and Greece within the scope of the plant cards activity they participated in.
Planting Seed
Şehit Erkan Kendirci Primary School 2-F class students participated in the seed planting activity for The Beauty Of Green eTwinning Project between 1-5 December 2023. Students started to plant and grow the seeds of their choice.