MR. ECOLOGIC IS COMING

D. Ecológico nos visita

Our goal“You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother.”(American Indian, Chief Seattle, wrote to President Franklin Pierce in 1854...)

The Project is aimed at those schools that wish to work on Environmental Education, not only one-time or sporadically, but also inverse in a continuous and constant educational process.

AgeMost of this projects will be developed by the third cycle, 10 and 11 year old students, 5th and 6th grades. 

DurationThe project is intended for a school year..

Subject areas•Natural Science.•Social Science.•English.•Spanish and Literature.•Digital Culture

Key Competences

-Mother tongue-Languages-Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology-Digital competence-Learning to learn competence-Social and civic competence-Competence in personal initiative and entrepreneurship-Cultural awareness and expression competence

OBJECTIVES

Sensitize, train and educate about the importance of sustainable development, making more participatory and conscious individuals through improved environmental management of schools.

Prepare the Center to the visit of Mr. Eco, for which the starting point will be the study by the students and the rest of the educational community, the real situation of the center with regard to waste management, energy expenditure, water use, quality of human relations.

Compare the results obtained with primary schools in our partner countries of our Etwinning project.

Establish an agreement or action plan among all partners, to solve environmental problems identified.

PRODUCTS Comparative dossier with the results of the different ecoaudits: Water ecoaudit. Waste ecoaudit. Use of paper ecoaudit.  Energy ecoaudit. Decalogue with the 10 most voted rules for our centers to become

greener spaces. Video with the celebration of World Environment Day. (5th June).

WORK PROCESS

The Project will be divided into three sections:Knowledge about the partners.Phases of ecoaudits.Improvement plan.

Block 1

-After making contact in the etwinning platform, the coordinators will prepare a Facebook group called MR. Ecologic is coming in which all the teachers involved will participate as well as legal representatives. Teachers must also have an active twitter account for more immediate communications.

-If we want our students use social networks we may use the Edmodo Platform.

-Of course we will create a section for our Project in the official website of each school.

-We will use Skipe for online communication.

-We will also create a YouTube channel where we can upload all the videos about the development of the project.

-For tools, spreadsheets, drives ... docs, ppt ... we will have to make a consensus among the participating countries to use all participants the same.

-Project Facilitators teachers or tutors will create groups with TeamUp: http://teamup.aalto.fi/

Knowledge about the partners

Block 2

The e-activity is in the first phase of our project, Mr. Ecological visits us, detection.

To prepare in each of the schools Mr. Ecological visit first we will conduct a study to know the starting point. In this case we will see what type and amount of paper the school buys.

OBJECTIVES  Know how much paper the school buys

and what kind of paper is. Reflect on the use and consumption of

paper and its environmental implications. The final product of our task will be to

show in a big poster the results depending on the number of trees that we have consumed during the school year (one ton of white paper equals approximately 7 to 10 trees), making graphics, statistical data ...

Develop a Decalogue among all the countries with the most voted proposals to reduce or improve the use of paper..

EcoauditsWhat is your rol?

Block 2

Once the groups have been created, the cards are dealt and tasks are distributed as follows:

GROUP 1: Study  of the uses by the teachers. GROUP 2: Study of the uses in the secretary

´s office. GROUP 3: Study of the uses by the students. It is compulsory to ask the teachers, students and

person in charge of purchases at the Secretary´s office not in the Management office. Then it is necessary to calculate how much paper the school buys per person, if it prioritises recycling, if copies are made on both sides, what kind of papers are used in other areas of the school: dining, extracurricular activities ...

The same groups are responsible for investigating which one is the most appropriate and  some measures are proposed to reduce or improve their use. 

COLABORATION The activity is collaborative, as it is to see the

results in each School.

The Decalogue: Take advantage of your paper, it will be made by a vote of all the proposals of the schools.

Ecoaudits What is your rol?

Block 2

OBJECTIVES Identify the features of the

lighting system, number of lamps and their status.

PROCEDURE

We will assign each of the school units to a group andthis one will analyze the lighting, the number and type of lamps, their status and impressions of people about it.

Each group will draw conclusions about their observations and these will be presented at a meeting jointly providing solutions to improve the current situation.

Ecoaudits:Analysis of the lighting system

Block 2

Ecoaudits:Analysis of the lighting system

Block 2

Ecoaudits:Analysis of the lighting system

Twinspace

In TwinSpace, the groups will upload images of their work as well as a final video with the conclusions

It is compulsory participation in a Forum after each ecoaudit to propose improvement actions.

Evaluation Group work will be assessed mainly, as it is the thickness of the

project. Para ello usaremos esta rúbrica:

SPREADING

We will seek the maximum  project spreading, We will always make in contact with the Department of Environment in the town, it will open the way to more local communication media: TV, radio and print media.

In addition, the project will have its own website: www.mrecologiciscoming.com and all centers will create links on their own websites.