E.S.B.F. (Earth should not be a frying pan!)
Students from Greece and Italy joined hands during the school year 2019-2020 to manifest disappointment about Global warming and Climate change, understand the importance of joining hands to achieve common goals and spread their voice on promoting the implementation of awareness-raising actions about sustainability as well as an Eco-friendly lifestyle, establishing passion for volunteerism and active citizenship.
A Sit in, proposed by students, to sensitize all school classes and raise awareness to the planet problems, a PARADE to sensitize the local community and to join Greta Thunberg's actions were initiatives that Italians undertook at the beginning of the project while the Greeks participated in a strike against Climate Change organized by teens from their city's secondary schools. They shoot photos and took an interview from a teen about her motivation to participate in a strike action against Climate Change.
Greta Thunberg has allowed them, with her continuous action and her ascendancy, to carry out many disciplinary activities. They carried out Italian and Greek grammar with Greta (sentences on the subject were taken for the exercises), mathematical problems (questionnaires and collected data to make charts and write comments), informative texts, scientific experiments and so on.
A series of activities were designed to highlight students' initiatives. Five international teams: Waste, Light-Energy, Water, Plastic & Paper, Environmental Care were created to give them the floor to express ideas and opinions. Constant communication in forum threads, even during the Covid-19 lockdown, led to five original products made within the teams using ICT and web2.0 tools that students themselves decided in an inspiring and clever way:
Waste team prepared a brochure using genial.ly tool with a list of objects and the place where they have to be thrown away.
A Sit in, proposed by students, to sensitize all school classes and raise awareness to the planet problems, a PARADE to sensitize the local community and to join Greta Thunberg's actions were initiatives that Italians undertook at the beginning of the project while the Greeks participated in a strike against Climate Change organized by teens from their city's secondary schools. They shoot photos and took an interview from a teen about her motivation to participate in a strike action against Climate Change.
Greta Thunberg has allowed them, with her continuous action and her ascendancy, to carry out many disciplinary activities. They carried out Italian and Greek grammar with Greta (sentences on the subject were taken for the exercises), mathematical problems (questionnaires and collected data to make charts and write comments), informative texts, scientific experiments and so on.
A series of activities were designed to highlight students' initiatives. Five international teams: Waste, Light-Energy, Water, Plastic & Paper, Environmental Care were created to give them the floor to express ideas and opinions. Constant communication in forum threads, even during the Covid-19 lockdown, led to five original products made within the teams using ICT and web2.0 tools that students themselves decided in an inspiring and clever way:
Waste team prepared a brochure using genial.ly tool with a list of objects and the place where they have to be thrown away.
Light-Energy team made radio spots to raise people’s awareness on saving light and energy. Students from both countries recorded messages using their phones during the Covid time which are now included on a radio channel in the soundcloud tool.
Plastic & Paper team advertised a day dedicated to recycling preparing a poster with the Canva tool.
Environmental Care team used google drive to write questions in a common document, in a mode of rules, for a game related to environment and its care.
Water team used postermywall tool to create a poster so as to demonstrates students' will on consuming less water because “every drop count”!
Kids spread also their voice about the environment care with 3 TV shows. The two partner teachers, Marina and Angeliki, wanted students to be aware of the planetary problems, understanding that even the youngest one can change the world and help it, first by changing his behaviour, and then by spreading the voice and inviting other people to follow their example.
These TV shows, which have a mode of real news programs, were made in English once every three months using the green screen technique. Interviews, activities, ideas, proposals on the "environment" theme were presented by students. What gives the project an added value is the fact that both students and teachers collaborated from home, for the creation of the second and third TV shows during the school closures.