"Hello, Dear Cli-Mates!" is a KA229 Erasmus+ funded project involving 4 partner countries: Romania (the coordinator), Italy, Spain and Turkey. This eTwinning project is planned to carry out and disseminate our local project activities with a wider community also involving other city schools. Climate change is a global threat to all nations in achieving a sustainable future regarding many vital areas (e.g.economy, agriculture, health). Many countries are suffering from natural disasters, abnormal weather patterns, increasing heat day by day. As educational institutions, we aim to prove our role in contributing to the fight against climate change with an international collaborative partnership considering the power of education in shaping future citizens with knowledge, competence, skills, attitudes and values in order to cope with the causes and effects of climate change, mitigate and adapt the changes at best level. Pupils aged between 10-13 will be involved in our project activities.
As for project aims, our pupils, teachers, schools staff and parents will:
1) Build and increase awareness on factors causing climate change, and
2) Learn the effects of climate change on natural, social, economic life and fields (e.g. agriculture, water, energy use, health, wild-life, biodiversity)
3) Produce suggestions and act to mitigate causes and effects of climate change
4) Learn European policies against climate change (e.g. SDGs-Climate Action)
5) Develop English as a foreign language
6) Improve pupils’ digital (web 2.0 tools) skills,
7) Promote intercultural communication
8) Realize role of education institutions against climate change
9) Promote cooperative, interdisciplinary, outdoor, experiential teaching methods
10) Enhance self-confidence, creativity, problem-solving, research and presentation skills
The eTwinning project of our Erasmus+ partnership will be coordinated by Spain and Turkey and end in May, 2022.
Teacher bulletin board, Twinspace Forum, regular online meetings will be used to keep in touch and promote better communication.
Task distribution and working plan schedule will be clearly set at the beginning of the project for sounder coordination.
The eTwinning partner schools apart from 4 Erasmus+ partners will not get involved in mobility activities but they will carry out the local project activities.
The working plan and activities will be revised, changed, cancelled or enriched with suggestions by new partners and the changes occurred due to pandemia process as in line with our Erasmus+ project aims.
Primarily:
Pupils and other project participants will increase awareness on the causes and effects of climate change and realize necessary actions.
They will improve English, digital, communicative, collaborative, creativity, research and presentation skills.
The basic concrete results will be:
Lesson plans in many disciplines
Exhibition of project outputs (e.g.Eco-friendly house/school models, Cloth bags)
Booklet of project-related experiments
Educative games kit
Some literary works (e.g.Dystopia, rap song, comics)
Eco-calendar
Cli-Mately dictionary
Project Rap song and video clip
Online magazine
