Workgroups at school for Global Environmental Problems!

Today we had the Innovation Day of this year and as suggested by the name of the day we had to do something innovative!  So... students became teachers!  About 25 students from the 1st and 2nd years from our school were divided  in four groups each of which had another student as a "coordinator".  The title of the workgroup was "Save the Planet" and it had to do with sustainable development and environmental problems.  Each group had to investigate one of these four topics: transportation, forests, garbage and energy.  For the investigation, a lot of material was provided by the coordinators such as abstracts from articles and scientific research, videos, songs, etc.  Then each group was given a big piece of paper (A1) and some markers and had to present causes, consequences and solutions for each topic.  After each group presented its work, there was a conversation where we discussed whether the proposed solutions would be effective and easy to apply and a lot of other issues.  Before the end, we showed our videos and made a brief introduction to CO2nnect and SUPPORT!  The results of the workgroup were amazing as the students participating had a very nice time and also learnt a lot of new stuff!  This has always been the aim of our campaign: to combine fun with learning as this is probably the best way to learn!