Conserve water, conserve life!
This project aims at highlighting the importance of the protection of water resources in the world.
We would like to raise our students’ awareness of our water footprint, that is the amount of water we use to produce the goods and services we need.
We would like to inspire and enable them to work together and think about actions we can take to stop the waste of water.
Classes 1E and 2B
Subjects English and Science
Partners Finland, Greece, Lithuania, Italy, Poland and Portugal.
Competences
- Multilingual competence: students will use English for communication and they will practice their linguistic skills.
- Basic competence in science: they will learn about environmental issues.
- Digital competence: they will use a lot of interesting ICT tools and they will develop ICT skills.
- Personal, social and learning to learn competence: they will manage their own learning, either individually or in groups.
- Citizenship competence: they will be aware of the importance of our water resources and will take actions to safeguard
- Cultural awareness and expression competence: participants of the projects will have the chance to get familiar with the diversity of many different cultures and develop positive values and attitudes. Students will get to know each other and hopefully make friends.
Conserve water, conserve life!
This project aims at highlighting the importance of the protection of water resources in the world.
We would like to raise our students’ awareness of our water footprint, that is the amount of water we use to produce the goods and services we need.
We would like to inspire and enable them to work together and think about actions we can take to stop the waste of water.
This project also aims at connecting cultures across Europe to promote understanding and friendship among our pupils. Thanks to the eTwinning community our students will be able to live and appreciate the European multicultural experience.
It is a multidisciplinary project and we are going to use the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) methodology: English, Geography and Science teachers are going to collaborate to carry on this project with their pupils.
Subjects: Foreign Languages, Informatics / ICT, Geography, Science.
Languages: English
Pupil's age: 11-12
Tools to be used: chat, e-mail, forum, other software (PowerPoint, video, pictures and drawings), TwinSpace, web tools (quizlet, padlet, kizoa, learning apps …), Google Form and Google Drive, software for ebook.
Aims and competences:
Learning about water footprint
Being aware about our daily water consumption
Thinking about ideas to protect water resources
Developing creativity through collaborative posters
Improving presentation skills with collaborative work
Encouraging cooperation
— Multilingual competence: students will use English for communication and they will practice their linguistic skills.
— Basic competence in science and technology: they will learn about environmental issues.
— Digital competence: they will use a lot of interesting ICT tools and they will develop ICT skills.
— Personal, social and learning to learn competence: they will manage their own learning, either individually or in groups.
— Citizenship competence: they will be aware of the importance of our water resources and will take actions to safeguard
— Cultural awareness and expression competence: participants of the projects will have the chance to get familiar with the diversity of many different cultures and develop positive values and attitudes. Students will get to know each other and hopefully make friends.
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Work process:
2020-2021
September - Preparation and starting activities. Pupils create their own profiles. Permissions from parents for publishing their photos and videos.
October - Introductions: students say hello to each other on a common padlet and then prepare a presentation to introduce themselves and their schools. They can prepare documents with pictures, or slide presentations, or videos.
Pupils read or watch each other’s presentation and get in touch with at least three for each country, by asking for more information. Starting to exchange emails using TwinMail.
November – Logo competition. Students create their own logos, then each school selects 3 of their own best logos which are next uploaded in the TwinSpace in order to be voted by all partners using Google Forms.
December - Merry Christmas: students exchange Christmas wishes using various webtools (padlet, learning apps…).
January – February CLIL activities on water (lesson plan, quizlet…). They create documents, presentations, posters, videos…
March – April International groups of eTwinners think about what actions we can take to safeguard our water resources. They work collaboratively on Google Drive. A selection of the main actions can be related in an ebook.
Poster creation for World Water Day (22nd March 2021).
May – Evaluation: pupils fill in an online questionnaire on the project (Google Form).
June – Dissemination: presentation of the project activities to be uploaded on one’s own school website.
Expected results:
All documents, presentations, pictures and videos will be filed in the TwinSpace.
Pupils will improve their English skills.
Pupils will use new ICT tools.
Pupils will have a better understanding and knowledge of the meaning of water footprint.
International groups of eTwinners will produce a collaborative presentation about what we can do to safeguard our water resources.
We also hope to create a real connection and friendship between the partner pupils.
The project will last from September 2020 to June 2021.
