“Let’s do something for our planet”

Lifelong Learning Programme 2008-2010

Meeting in Italy, AltamuraWith financial aid of Europeene Committee 

• 2° CIRCOLO DIDATTICO GARIBALDI – ALTAMURA - ITALIA istituto coordinatore

• SIR KARL POPPER – SCHULE – VIENNA – AUSTRIA – partner• KINDERGARTEN 2 JANNI RODARI – GOTSE DELCHEV –

BULGARIA – partner• CEIP MANUEL ORTIZ I CASTELLO – JUNEDA – SPAGNA –

partner• ECOLE SIMONE SIGNORET – LIONE – FRANCIA – partner• OSKARA KALPAKA RUDBARZU PRIMARY SCHOOL –

RUDBARZI – LATVIA partner• SCOALA CU CLASELE I – VIII GHEORGHE MAGHERU –

CARACAL – ROMANIA – partner• GRADINITA DE COPII CU PROGRAM PRELUNGIT NR 2 – HUSI –

ROMANIA – partner• GOTEBORGS HOGRE SAMSKOLA, LILLA SKOLAN –

GOTEBORG – SVEZIA - partner

The parteners:

8 November 2008Withdrawal from the airport and

setup in the hotel Svevia

9 November 2008 Withdrawal from the hotel Svevia and tour

for the historical center of Altamura.

Study visit of school and region The visit to National Museum of Altamura

Altamura National Archeological Museum also is very interesting. It is composed of 4 sections: Prehistoric, Archaic, Classic and

Hellenistic, late Middle Ages. It hosts several finds from Lamalunga cave, where a 250,000 year-old human fossil known as Altamura man was also found. Dinosaur footprints aged about 70 million

years were found in a cave four kilometers away from the town. This area is accessible subject to a previous agreement with people

in charge of Altamura National Archeological Museum.

The visit to the Stones of Matera• Matera's Sassi are the best surviving and most

complete examples of rock-cut settlement in the Mediterranean region. They have been developed in close harmony with the natural environments.

• Nature has provided this location with a belt of soft tufa, with two natural depressions. The caves here have been used since prehistoric times. Population pressure drove people out of the city of Matera, into these Sassi.

• Vestigiile culturale din zona peşterilor numită „Sassi di Matera” din Matera au fost înscrise în anul 1993 pe lista patrimoniului cultural mondial UNESCO

• Un exemplu de viata simpla, cu utilizarea la maxim a resurselor naturale: Conditiile de mediu (stanca), lumina solara, apa de ploaie

From the 17th century on, this area wasleft to the poor. At first they lived in the bare caves, later these developed into house-like structures.

The Sassi were evacuated by law in 1952. 15.000 people, living in extremely poor hygienic circumstances, had to be resettled to new quarters.

2007Name changeFrom "I Sassi di Matera" to "The Sassi and the park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera"

10 November 2008 Reception in the school Aldo Moro

Meeting in the school “Aldo Moro” of the international staff

Every school makes a Power Point with a school presentation related to their own scholastic system –

school context – culture and traditions of the maximum duration of 10 minutes to be introduced during the first meeting. Vision of the CD of the different countries and

exchange.

Presentation and exchange of the mascotte Ecolino.

• Mascot of recycled material called Ecolino produced by all schools.

• Mascote realizate din materiale reciclabile. Noi am ales calusarul, avand traditii legate de cultul naturii, in zona Romanati

The visit to the pre-primary and primary school.

11 November 2008 Meeting on the job

• Planning meeting for activities to be done before next meeting. Revised plan .

• S-au stabilit detaliile activitatilor viitoare-actiuni de educatie ecologica: poluarea reciclarea materialelor, energiile ecologice, animale si plante pe cale de disparitie, animale fara stapan…

Visit to the Trulli of Alberobello • These gleaming houses

(whitewashed each year) are curious, rounded structures with gray, stone, cone-shaped roofs. They are trulli, common in the province of Bari and Taranto, yet unknown in the rest of the world. A great number of trulli may be found in the town of Alberobello, which is nearly a city. The town's historical center is on a hilltop, amid the scent of almond and olive trees, and has been declared an International Human Resource by UNESCO.

Synthesis of the job of the international staff 12 November 2008

All schools

Mascot of recycled material called Ecolino produced by all schools.

Every school makes a Power Point with a school presentation related to their own scholastic system – school context – culture and traditions of the maximum duration of 10 minutes to be introduced during the first meeting.

Meeting in Italy, AltamuraSchool presentations and CD distributed.Presentation of Ecolino and distribution.Study visit of school and region. Planning meeting for activities to be done before next meeting. Revised plan

A Website/Blog will be created where teachers continuously can share their work and ideas as well as pictures of student’s work. The blog will have different sections recycling, earth, water, air, energy, and glossary.

Each schools gathers information about environmental strategies and solutions that are already in place in their country, town and school. This is presented in a Power Point presentation.

The visit, at the 11,30 in the Town Hall: regard of the Mayor and the alderman to the Public Education

Final evening of regard All schools Kindergarten Primary school

Other person/perso

nsAll schools will together make a net based

glossary of environmental terms in English and all partner languages. This will continuously be added to during the project. This glossary will at the end of the project be illustrated with student’s work or photos and printed into a book.

We can now begin to collect words. Children can draw pictures to illustrate the words these are exposed in schools and then saved so some of them can be used in the final book.

Romania will start the glossary and send it to Austria.

Austria will start the glossary on the net.

Each school will distribute a common questionnaire about earth, translated into their language, for students to answer.

All schools will also collect the data, organize and analyse it and make a presentation of the results including graphs using percentages. Each school makes a CD with the presentation of their results, data and graphs to take to Lyon.

Each school saves 8 examples of filled in questionnaires which can be exchanged between all partner schools in Lyon to compare handwriting

The kindergarten students may also take part in the questionnaire. In that case each school should adapt it to their level using picture alternatives.

In each school all students from the age of 8-12 should answer the questionnaire by hand. The older children can help to collect and organize the data and make graphs. The results from these questionnaires will later be used by the students to write an action plan about how to help earth.

The younger primary students may also take part in the questionnaire. In that case each school should adapt the language to their level.

France distributes a questionnaire to all schools about the environment inspired by WWF.

PLANS• Photos of recycling bins in partner countries should be

sent by each school to France and website.Each school makes preparations at their school so we in Lyon can discuss and make plans for how we would like to work with the subject water. Every school will in different ways investigate and look for solutions for problems on earth: you can study the ground as a resource, the maintenance of the ground, biological cultivation and the health of man, respect of open spaces, endangered animals, recycling, energy. This work should be presented in a Power Point presentation in Lyon and examples of student work displayed on eight A3 posters that can be brought to Lyon and distributed to the other schools. We will bring our Power Point, movies and photos on a CD.

Dinner with typical foods offered by scholastic community

See us in Lyon-France !(1 - 6 March 2009)

• All schools may present a CD with environmental strategies and solutions in their country, town and school, if they want to. The CD will be exchanged among the partners, not viewed, not spend time showing it if the agenda gets to tight in Lyon.

• All schools will present CD with the data acquired by the schools. We will from these make one common CD with all the schools’ results which will be distributed to all schools.

• All schools exchange samples of questionnaires in English, in A4 format. Every school presents how they have worked with the subject Earth in a Power Point presentation.

• Each school also brings 8 posters A3 illustrating samples of their work. These will be exchanged with partner schools and displayed in their schools.Intermediate evaluation of the project with the schools’ partners.

• Planning of the investigations into water.Planning of the visits of study over the meetings established.

• We decided at a later discussion that we should not share information using memory sticks because of the risk with viruses.