Our project IS IT WASTE OR MONEY? is meant for primary school children, their teachers and parents from the partner schools.

By cooperating with schools from our partner European schools, we wish to raise the students’ and their parents’ awareness to the environmental issues and find ways to recycle and convert waste into useful and even art products and to find means to preserve the nature.

Objectives

1. To learn about various natural sights around us and Europe
2. To raise the students’ and their parents awareness about the need to preserve the natural environment
3. To involve the educational community in the valorization of the natural environment
4. To discover ways to turn waste into useful things and arts and crafts products
5. To plan simple actions for recycling at home, at school and in the city
6. To appreciate the gifts offered by nature
7. To assess the consequences of climate change
8. To raise the students’ and teachers’ self esteem through communicating with their peers from the partner schools
9. To exchange experiences and learn about the methods teachers from other schools use to teach their students about environmental issues

Activities

We will study the plants and animals specific to the regions from the countries involved during the Nature study or biology classes and see how they can be preserved in future. We will visit nature reserves and museums. We will learn how to recycle waste materials (paper, plastic, etc.) to make art products and make a fashion show with designs made from recycled materials during the Arts and crafts classes and show them in exhibitions, maybe even sell them in the local community. We’ll plant trees and flowers and take care of them; design educational games and draft a code of good practice in nature. We’ll make a multilingual mini dictionary about nature in Europe.

Methodology

All partners will be involved equally in the activities within the partnership.
We’ll use communication via ICT media and direct communication during project meetings. We will evaluate our partnership by various means: questionnaires, comments on the blog and Facebook group, quality of planned products, etc.
We will disseminate our results and activities on the project blog and website, as well as in the local massmedia.