During our lat project meeting in Assen we made tables with the actions,events and project activities,
which partner schools organized from 2015 to 2017 in order to solve the problems in their schools and regions.
which partner schools organized from 2015 to 2017 in order to solve the problems in their schools and regions.
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No.
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Partner school
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Ecological problem
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Taken action
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1.
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Gimnazjum z Oddziałami
Dwujęzycznymi in Juszczyna
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Air pollution caused by burning rubbish and bad
quality coal.
Contamination of soil and brooks by throwing away
the rubbish on the river banks and in the forest.
Problems connected with wasting electricity, water
and poor knowledge of necessity of recycling rubbish.
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Including the project topics into Biology, Physics, Chemistry,
Geography and English lessons.
-Students have learnt about
dangers to the environment and how they can reduce them. Identify the reasons
for those problems and show that we can protect the natural world by recycling, saving water and electricity
and using the alternative sources of energy.
Involving students into doing the multimedia presentation on
alternative sources of energy.
-Additional lessons:
English lesson- vocabulary connected with
the environment and its protection,
Physics lessons about sources of energy, Chemistry
lessons; harmful results of burning chemical
rubbish, Biology lesson:”What can you do
to change your bad habits and help to protect the environment in your
region?” - Drawing posters showing the
ecological problems in the area.
-Meeting with the representative of the local Ecological Organization
”Gaja”.
-Organizing meeting with parents and giving them multimedia
presentations on the reasons for pollution in their region. -Publishing the
articles in the local press about bad influence of the burning rubbish on the
environment. - Organizing educational trips: to the
hydroelectric power station on the Żar Mountain, to sewage treatment plant in Żywiec Participating in the actions:
Participation in the international
meetings, lessons and workshops connected with environmental issues.
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2.
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Gymnasium Unter Den Eichen Uetze
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!.Waste and waste separation in school.
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Fairtrade-School:
an own marketplace for selfmade food (food) from the students à less waste of recycling materialsü
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Due to change
of the canteen owner - Convince the new canteen owners to offer no sweets and
drinks in plastic cups or plastic bags à negotiations are still running
a shared waste separation of all 4 schools
at the school center à negotiations are still running
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3.
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Bedriye ve Kadir
Uysal Ortaokulu in Uşak
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Air Pollution caused by using coal instead
of natural gas.
Water Pollution caused by dumping of factory
wastes.
Soil Pollution caused by using pesticides
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In lessons connected with our project
titles, informing students about the danger of using too much coal on living
things and environment. In Biology lesson, giving information about
greenhouse gases and their harmful effects on environment and living things.
Explaining also these gases has invisible harmful effects for our body when
we breathe them. In Physics and Chemistry, telling students the importance of
using renewable energy types. Taking them to the plants of solar panels and
wind turbines. In English lessons, because of the curriculum, in each level,
teaching the subjects and related words about air and the other pollution
types.
Distributing brochures which give
information about the harmful effects of smog on the air and explaining how
important to take the factories out of the city and encouraging Natural gas
usage in factories extended
Explaining students what the water pollution
is and importance for people and our earth in science lessons. Celebrating
each year “The World Water Day” and
emphasizing the importance of water in our life. Organizing educational school excursion to Günalı
irrigation channel and Uşak domestic waste water purification plant.
Showing presentations to students and parents
especially work on land about how the soil was polluted and the importance of
keeping it healthy that is essential to maintaining a beautiful planet.
Educating them about harmful effects of
man made waste consists of many chemicals and the usage of pesticides.
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4.
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dr.Nassau College
Penta in Assen
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In Assen
we don’t have severe problems of water- or air pollution. In some places we
have soil pollution caused by former factories or petrol stations. A part of
our school is built on an area where in former times a dry cleaning company
was run. But before building our school the soil was cleaned. The biggest
problem in Assen and in the whole of the Netherlands is that we are dealing
with is the high consumption of energy
and throwing garbage away.
E-BIKES
The municipality and our school
stimulate the personal to make more use of bikes instead of using cars or
public transport. They give a grant to everyone who buys a new e-bike for
traveling from home to school.
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In the
lessons of biology, geography and physics we talk with the pupils about these
problems. We also do projects in a nature reserve near our school, in one
project we let them find solutions for the problems of throwing garbage away and of degradation of
the nature reserve by for instance building roads and houses. In another
project we try to make them aware of the importance of the area for good drinking water.
By giving information/education
about the high consumption of energy, we hope that they change their habits
and be economical with energy and raw materials. In specific we give lessons
about reducing the use of energy and the cause of the greenhouse effect with
the consequence for rising sea level.
All the rooms in our buildings are equipped
with automatic light switches that
make the light only lit if there is someone in the room.
We also teach about the use of solar panels. One building of the Dr.
Nassau College has a lot of these solar panels on its roof.
SUSTAINABILITY CENTER
New in Assen is a sustainability center
where classes and inhabitants of Assen can get information about building
energy-neutral. They give for example information about isolating buildings,
using woodchips for heating, solar-panels, toilets that use less water, roofs
with plants for isolation and so on. All our students will visit this sustainability
center once in their school career.
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No.
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Partner school
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Health problems of our students
connected with their lifestyle and reasons
for the weak interests in learning
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Solutions
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1.
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Gimnazjum z Oddziałami
Dwujęzycznymi in Juszczyna
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- weak vision, spine curving
and obesity(15%) -students
spend a lot of time in front of the computer and TV sets, they do not walk,
even 100m a day, they prefer having fast food, sweets and fizzy drinks to
eating fruit and vegetables -our
students do not often want to take part in the Physical Education lessons -they
prefer having fast food, sweets and fizzy drinks -being busy with modern gadgets and computer
games, they are bored during the school lessons and are too lazy to learn Mathematics.
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-introducing more
interesting methods and games during the PE lessons,
-checking the students fitness and discussing the reasons
for the bad performances,
-organizing a
meeting with a well-known sportsman,
-meeting with a
dietician; workshops on the healthy diet,
-workshop with a
nurse on the healthy lifestyle and healthy diet,
-culinary lessons
connected with making healthy dishes,
-involving students
into preparing multimedia presentations on harmful influence fizzy drinks and
sweets on the body and mind,
-including topics
connected with healthy lifestyle into Biology, PE and English lessons,
-organizing educational trips
( visit to the Bread Cottage, baking bread
, trying it and comparing with the bread bought in a shop, making
traditional butter and cheese, a
chocolate workshop in a Chocolate Museum in Cracow).
- sports
competitions,
-participation in
the international meetings, lessons and workshops.
Additional lessons:
Mathematics lessons -introducing the
calculations joined with the results of project evaluation into, making them
more interesting by analyzing their own participation in the project work
Art workshop-making and drawing posters
connected with the healthy lifestyle,
Biology lesson about healthy lifestyle-“What can we do as individuals to make changes to our
lifestyles and help natural world to be healthy for us?”,,
English lesson- vocabulary connected with healthy lifestyle
-cooking lessons: preparing a healthy dish for
dinner.
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Gymnasium Unter Den Eichen Uetze
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1.Alcohol abuse.
2.Too little physical exercises.
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- „Tom & Lisa“ : an alcohol prevention project with students (8th
grade)
- Cooperation with Police: alcohol prevention with students (10th
grade)
- Topics in lessons (Biology/ English): abuse and effects on body and
soul by drugs
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Offering more sports
working groups in the afternoon and introducing sports days in collaboration
with the open all-day school
- Participation in „Youth training for Olympia“ in 2016 (Handball- grades
5-7)
Introducing a new profile for 5th grade (in 2017):
PE-Class
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Bedriye ve Kadir
Uysal Ortaokulu in Uşak
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Obesity
Diabetics
Smoking
and Drugs
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Observing obesity face-to-face in our classrooms and
increasing number of obesity. Giving these "super-sized"
students advice about balanced diet and avoiding fast food or unhealthy food.
Explaining them in the science lessons and organizing seminars given by
dieticians.
Encouraging
the students to take part in a sport activity and doing exercises daily.
Cooperation with PE teachers to keep healthy these obese and overweight
students.
Showing
students presentations and giving tasks that give information about the Sugar
free food and drinks and harmful effects of sweets at school canteens.
Providing
to be sold healthy food and drinks at school canteens by talking school
management and canteen keeper.
Organizing
seminars about smoking and drugs given by officers from our local police
department.
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dr.Nassau College
Penta in Assen
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Overweight
Smoking,
drugs
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Water
taps in schools
Healthy
canteen Healthy
school yard Pupils
have breaks outside compulsory Do
It program (Biology lessons) Smoking banned from
school P.E. classes and
sports tournaments Use
of dancing plates in P.E. lessons
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