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7th project meeting Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas Diogo Co, Vila Real, PORTUGAL
The 7th project meeting was held at Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas Diogo Co, in Vila Real Portugal from 12/2/2012 to 17/2/2012.
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Vila Real is a city in northern Portugal located west of the port city of Porto and north of the Douro River. In order of population, Vila Real capital has roughly 25,000 in the urban parishes. Located at the converging point of two rivers it has always been a busy agricultural and commercial town, mainly based around the lucrative wine and port trade. Extensive areas are covered in pine forest. Granite and the manufacture of mineral waterthe waters of Vidago and Pedras Salgadas are nationally famousare two important industries. 2.567 students study at the Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas Diogo Co and 297 teachers teach in it. The Agrupamento includes 21 Kindergartens, 23 Primary schools and one high school. During our meeting we visited two Kindergartens, two Primary schools and the main school of Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas Diogo Co.
We visited classes in all schools, the main schools modern library, admired the school gardens and had teaching sessions. In the two Kindergartens that we visited we met parents and grandmothers who were helping make the carnival costumes the themes of which were taken from our project. The students welcomed us with songs and presents and we also watched a show with environmental content. As it is used we planted a cherry tree in the garden of a Primary school. The school and the Parents Association offered us tasteful meals. Finally, we visited Gimaraes, Braga and Porto. Last but not least we would like the students, he teachers and the parents of the Portuguese partner school for their hospitality.
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Italy
Prendiamo un th.o facciamo un giro? Shall a cup take a we have of teaor ride ?
Hi, we've just come back from a wonderful project visit in Vila Real, Portugal. We enjoyed our Portuguese partners very much: we had unforgettable opportunies to visit their Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas. Teachers and students have always shown us nice performances and beautiful craftworks. Parents and students were just wonderful with us, and gave us their genuine hospitality and friendship. Thanks Joao and the other magic people! It was nice to have teaching sessions with 14-year-old students. Pierpaola, the Italian teacher of Art, worked out an interesting lesson about design and recycled materials. Have a look at the following pictures. Amazing, aren't they?
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A modern design lamp made up of carton board... ...and other funny recycled design objects!
Before having our project visit to Vila Real, our students have worked on energy topics during their technogy lessons. Lots of projects came out from this: here you have some.
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Our students of 3rd H class are still working on this and soon they will study other sources of energy. We'll let you know. Of course our students are still exchanging letters and e-mail with their school mates in the different Countries. In particular they are now writing to Danish and Portuguese classes and will arrange video conferences. Great! Waiting for the next visit to Poland... see you soon! Patrizia Salutij
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DENMARK
5th. grade worked with waste and recycling.
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They discovered how important it is, that we all, in our households, recycle instead of just throwing things in the bin. Its not only magazines, newspapers, glass and cans its everything!! Plastic bags, of course, but also things made of plastic like toys, kitchen utensils etc. Big things like garden chairs etc very important! And if they are made of combined materials like metal and wood or plastic, its important to take them apart before recycling. Your mobile phones contains a lot of metal including gold and silver. If you send your mobile for recycling, your save not only water and co2 but also contribute to less mining. (there is enough silver in 3 mobile phones to make a finger-ring.)
Elektronic
If you return your mobile to recycling you can save nature from the equal of drive a light bulb in one and a half year + 280 ten liter buckets filled with water. If you do not recycles your mobile then you contribute with the destroy of the environment. by Rasmus and Sebatian, 5th
Glass
We got a project in science, the project was about recycling. Our topic was glass. If you put youre glass to recycling this happens: all the glass are put in the same room in wich they are cleaned then they are sorted and melted together 40% of broken glass and 60% of soda and chalk. You decide whether to continue to let the glass bottle live like glass and save 1 liter of water and electricity for a light bulb for 16 hours and 16 balloons filled with co2. by Majken kk, Pernille, Magnus and Josefine.
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Metal
- If you recycle four chair legs of metal, you save the environment for 15 litre water and you save electricity equal to a 11 wats light bulb in 170 hour. If you throw the chair out, it come on cumbustion, after cumbustion you cant use it again because it is very bad quality. It takes 500 years to decompose aluminium in the nature. by Astrid and Natacha J
Paper
In science we had a theme about recycling. The topic our group worked with: paper! You take a magazine on 98 gram: If it was made of new fibers, rather than using old, it will cost extra 13 liter bottles of water and energy equivalent to
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pupil council
with ideas for green tip of the month. All students at school can give a tip every month, and the pupil council have an award for the best.
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Bio-plastic Normally plastics are oil-based. It means, that you use oil from our underground to produce. Maybe not all kinds of plastic needs to be so long-life durable? We made experiments making bio-plastic from potato starch, glycerin and vinegar. Oil-based plastic takes 500 years to disappear in nature bio-plastic only 2-3 weeks!! And you can use it for a lot of things: plastic bags, kitchen utensils etc.
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We also made experiments on renewable energy. Building a simple windmill - you can see it on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnhMfXHMc6M (5th grade made the video) or on the common Comenius website. We also made experiments to find out about how well suncells works. We would like to show this and more to you all face-to-face on a web-cam-meeting. Ask your teacher!!
4th grade
Made designer chairs out of old boxes. We simply made a form, cut in big old boxes the same form, painted and folded. Voila!! Have a look, how nice they are:
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Research for recycling at home
This year a new lesson was added in primary education with title Environmental Education. Students of the 6th grade prepared a research about recycling at home. At the research participated all students of the school. The results were disappointing as many of the students do not recycle properly. Only half of them recycle PMD and paper and most do not recycle glass, clothes or electrical appliances. Also very few make their own compost from organic litter. See all results in our website.
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eTwinning award
Seven of the schools that participate in Comenius, they also take part in Etwinning. Etwinning is an internet platform that offers opportunity to many schools of Europe to cooperate through internet by teleconferences, students' communication and presentation of their products. Our school was the only primary school that received the European Quality Award. With this award we also take part for the big European prize of this year.
You can visit eTwinning if you press the following link. http://www.etwinning.net/el/pub/profile.cfm?f=1&l=el&n=85987
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Eco codes
Two classes prepared Eco codes. Class 2B focused on Litter and made little poems about recycling and diminishing litter. You can see their powerpoint presentation at the following link: http://www.slideshare.net/panikkx/ecologikoskodikas Class A made drawing about the things that we should pay attention in order to save the environment. Watch video in our website.
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The students of class C1 drew a beautiful banner about recycling. In translation it means
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BELGIUM
In our school the children started collecting all kind of waste materials. In june we are going to have a big fashion show. All the clothes are going to be made of garbage. Some classes already started creating their clothes.
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PORTUGAL
Inside Story Headline
This is what we did over the past three months: - Preparation of the Comenius Meeting in our Agrupamento . We did a lot of research work on the internet about the partner countries
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- Free Garden Plots . We started to organise the school gardens, divided them into parcels and gave to six different classes that were interested in taking care of them. . Some students made drawings of the plots in order to organise and decide the and type of plants. . We have already planted many plants, trees and bushes. them layout
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- Organic Garden We have organic gardens in most of our schools. We are now planting our crops: cabbage, beans, peas, broad beans, onions, garlic, strawberries, aromatic plants lettuce,
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- Carnival Parade We organised a Carnival Parade on 17th February. Most of the costumes and fancy dresses were made at school with the help of the students parents and grandparents. Most of these costumes were made out of recycled materials and old clothes.
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- Lecture on the topic What can we do to protect the animals? (for kindergarten and primary school students, teachers and parents) - Celebrating the Worlds Forest Day . Many of our teachers and students are organising different activities to celebrate the Worlds Forest Day. Here are some of the most interesting: theatre play Recycling is innovating; planting trees; walking in the woods and parks near the schools; picnic with parents; outdoor games; singing songs; display with students works;
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GREECE
Hello from Greece.
We had a lot of activities during the last four months. In December we won the eTwinning National Competition in the ComeniuseTwinning projects category. The awards were ICT and other school equipment.
In December we made cards for the partner schools and class 4c made Christmas ornaments with useless materials.
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The students of 5th & 6th grade have created a lot of artistic work on energy and environmental problems.
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The 2nd and 3rd classes are working on the sea and its protection and have visited the seaside nearby and done experiments about the pollution of the sea.
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During these 4 months we had chat sessions with the Danish and Cypriot schools and some of our students have exchanged e mails with students of partner schools.
The students of class 4c wrote the Greek art of the eco tale and the students of 5a illustrated it.
We have sent our Polish college the material for our Cook Book where we describe step by step our teaching sessions during our meetings. Finally we participated in the Earth Hour on March 31st by switching off the lights in our houses for one hour.
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