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!
Trip to the Netherlands
Here is what a student wrote about her experiences in the Netherlands:
Between the 7th and the 11th of February of 2010 a group of 10 students from our school along with two teachers, Mrs. Maria Loizou (Physics Teacher) and Mrs. Maria Panagiotou (Greek/History Teacher), and Mr. Chomatas, representative of the City Council of Limassol, visited the Netherlands and specifically a place called Noord-Brabant to attend a conference held by a European Lifelong Education Program called "SUPPORT Partnership and Participation for a Sustainable Tomorrow" which was titled "Youngsters in the driver's seat for local sustainable development". The aim of the conference was to sensitize youngsters about their extremely important role in society as well as their perspective and substantial participation in rebuilding our society with the installation of viable conditions that serve sustainable development as the main purpose.
When we got there, we got separated into mixed groups of students from all over Europe. Each group had to study a case and suggest solutions about it. Through this process we acquired a lot of knowledge and we were given the opportunity to meet and get to know peers, exchange views as well as learn more about their cultures, lifestyles, way of thinking, customs and traditions!
The Newspaper of our School
Members of our team are involved in the creation of the school newspaper and -as always- we are going to take advantage of that! We have agreed with the teachers and the students who are responsible for the newspaper that one of the students of our team will write an article in each of the first editions of the newspaper about the environmental problems in general!
This way we hope that we will be able to access all of the students in our school and maybe after they read what we have to say they will think twice before using the car to go to a shop only 200 metres from their home!
This way we hope that we will be able to access all of the students in our school and maybe after they read what we have to say they will think twice before using the car to go to a shop only 200 metres from their home!
Results of the International School Competition
This evening we were really excited to read the results of the CO2nnect International School Competition! That was because the juries honoured our project report with the first prize! We were elated to read their comments about our work, too!
Click here to read the comments of the juries about our project
We, hence, want to thank the Juries for giving the first prize to us and congratulate ALL the other schools for their terrific and remarkable activities and project reports!
We, hence, want to thank the Juries for giving the first prize to us and congratulate ALL the other schools for their terrific and remarkable activities and project reports!
We also want to reassure you that this prize, which is the recognition of all of our hard work, won't be the happy ending of our activities in our community. On the contrary, it will be a trigger that will push us to be even more active and creative in order to sensitize everyone in our community, for a better planet!
We want to conclude with just one (promising) phrase: the best is yet to come!;)
Read our book the INNOVATIVE way!;)
Our books are now available to read in a new, innovative way! You can flip the pages on your screen like you'd flip them if you had the book in front of you! This is the site that contains our books: http://co2books.webs.com/ and here are all the links to reading the books:
Click here to read "Μια Σαλιγκο-Ιστορία" (original, greek version of A Snail's Life)
Click here to read "Τα Τρία Σκιουράκια" (original, greek version of The Adventures of the Three Squirrels)
Click here to read "A Snail's Life" (front and back covers are from the original, greek version)
Click here to read "The Adventures of the Three Squirrels" (front and back covers are from the original, greek version)
The covers used for the English version of the books are the original ones from the Greek version.
We hope you enjoy reading them!
PS: The books were created with the free version of Flash Page Flip.
Click here to read "Μια Σαλιγκο-Ιστορία" (original, greek version of A Snail's Life)
Click here to read "Τα Τρία Σκιουράκια" (original, greek version of The Adventures of the Three Squirrels)
Click here to read "A Snail's Life" (front and back covers are from the original, greek version)
Click here to read "The Adventures of the Three Squirrels" (front and back covers are from the original, greek version)
The covers used for the English version of the books are the original ones from the Greek version.
We hope you enjoy reading them!
PS: The books were created with the free version of Flash Page Flip.
New Plans for the year!
Although we have submitted our project report that doesn't mean that we're done with this campaign! As a matter of fact we have already started to make new plans for the campaign since we have a lot of new students in our school!
Our plans include the creation of a simple application for the computer which we will give to students in small CDs and those applications will contain games, crosswords, puzzles, etc, all concerning the environment! We know that if not all then at least 95% of the students of our school own a laptop or a desktop so we think that they may find this idea entertaining and educating!
We will also talk to the new students while they are having lessons, like we did last year for all students. What's more is that we are going to add some students to our club from other classes so that we can more easily access every one in the school!
Our plans include the creation of a simple application for the computer which we will give to students in small CDs and those applications will contain games, crosswords, puzzles, etc, all concerning the environment! We know that if not all then at least 95% of the students of our school own a laptop or a desktop so we think that they may find this idea entertaining and educating!
We will also talk to the new students while they are having lessons, like we did last year for all students. What's more is that we are going to add some students to our club from other classes so that we can more easily access every one in the school!
Our project report
Our project report was uploaded to co2nnect.org this week.
Here you can see the project reports of all participating schools: http://co2nnect.org/results/?vis=rapporter
And to read our project report go here: http://co2nnect.org/innsendt/pdf/vedlegg/85/4ac3c01ccde0a/lykeio_agiou_ioanni.pdf
If you are interested in watching our videos you can find them in the sidebar of this blog (on the right of this post) or you could just follow these links: first video, second video and the video of when we planted trees.
To read our stories you can find the links below the videos in the sidebar or you can just follow these links: A Snail's Life and The adventures of the Three Squirrels. You can also download them.
To find out more about our campaign (even some stuff that wasn't included in the project report) read all of our posts which can be easily accessed through the archive in the sidebar. Don't forget to visit some of our favourite sites related to our campaign or to the environment by using the links in the sidebar (which are below the title Sites you have to visit!).
By the way, we saw some really good reports there! A lot of students from all over the world have worked really hard for this campaign! It's very nice to see that although we live thousands of kilometres away from these students our aims are the same! Only difference is the approach!
Good luck to everyone!
Here you can see the project reports of all participating schools: http://co2nnect.org/results/?vis=rapporter
And to read our project report go here: http://co2nnect.org/innsendt/pdf/vedlegg/85/4ac3c01ccde0a/lykeio_agiou_ioanni.pdf
If you are interested in watching our videos you can find them in the sidebar of this blog (on the right of this post) or you could just follow these links: first video, second video and the video of when we planted trees.
To read our stories you can find the links below the videos in the sidebar or you can just follow these links: A Snail's Life and The adventures of the Three Squirrels. You can also download them.
To find out more about our campaign (even some stuff that wasn't included in the project report) read all of our posts which can be easily accessed through the archive in the sidebar. Don't forget to visit some of our favourite sites related to our campaign or to the environment by using the links in the sidebar (which are below the title Sites you have to visit!).
By the way, we saw some really good reports there! A lot of students from all over the world have worked really hard for this campaign! It's very nice to see that although we live thousands of kilometres away from these students our aims are the same! Only difference is the approach!
Good luck to everyone!