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Combating Climate change

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Teaching in current times

The new situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has brought big changes in the teaching in the virtual classroom compared to the usual teaching. Online teaching has set new requirements for the rapid implementation of ICT and the integration of digital technology without time to learn about the possibilities and principles of using a particular web tool. The question of choice, approach and way of working arises. Teachers quickly set out to select the appropriate technology for teaching activities and certain groups of students while achieving the planned educational outcomes and expectations of cross-curricular topics.

Time to contribute in solving global problems

As part of the school course Socially Responsible Business, students of the 2nd grade of the profession economist with their teacher Nada Ratković, prof. mentor participated in many national, European and international projects solving global problems the world’s most important challenges: climate change. Through the school year students are participating in national projects „E-student for a greener tomorrow“, EU project „Students actions-Fighting climate changes“, eTwinning project „Breathe deeply & Think clearly“, international projects „Climate Action project“ and „SDG goal project“. The projects are significant because they can be presented for any general education and vocational subject. Every age, topic and school requires a different approach and gives students the future they deserve.

eTwinning project “Breathe deeply & Think clearly”
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MY WATER OF LIFE / The Impact of Global Climate Change on Water Resources

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“MY WATER OF LIFE” is an eTwinning project. In our international eTwinning project, there are 5 countries,16 partner members and 145 student including Albania, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey.

The Importance of the Project

Water, our source of life on earth, is rapidly becoming polluted due to consumption habits in the modern world. Global warming and climate change are dragging the world into an uncertain future, threatening even water-rich countries. Water literacy is therefore extremely important for the conservation of water, which is a vital resource for life. With this project, our students will learn by observing the behavior of water in their daily lives, how it is polluted and how it should be protected. With water awareness, our students will also contribute to the protection of the ecological system.

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Nature Based Solutions for the Future of Water

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Abstract

Water is a basic need for all living things. In parallel with global climate changes;

water pollution has created one of the biggest threats to the future. This threat is growing;

the water is running out. Now, the quest for the most efficient use of water resources

top of the agenda.

Real Life Problems:

– What are the causes of water problems?

– What are the Nature Based Solution (NBS) pathways?

– Dirty water cleared?

– How important is water?

We prepared a poster describing the lesson activities with the students.

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MY WATER OF LIFE / “The Effects of Drought Increase on Plant Diversity and Forests”

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*ABOUT THE PROJECT

Global warming and climate change threaten even water-rich countries by dragging the world into an uncertain future. Therefore, water literacy is extremely important for the conservation and conservation of water, which is a vital resource for life. With this project, students will learn by observing the behavior of water in their daily lives, by experiencing how it gets polluted and how it should be protected. The widespread use of water literacy among students will make an important contribution to the protection of the ecological system.

* AIMS

With this project, it was aimed to make students water literate by creating water awareness against the increasing water pollution in the world. In addition, it was aimed to use water, which is one of the most important resources in the world and used irresponsibly, among our students, parents and teachers in a more careful and economical way. In addition, with web 2.0 tools, it was aimed to improve students’ foreign language skills and to use technologies such as computers and mobile phones safely.

*MIXED COUNTRY TEAM 3.TEAM

“The Effects of Drought Increase on Plant Diversity and Forests”

Mentör Teachers:  Nazan Yılmazer & Maria Leonor Neves Alves

And  Our mixed team students

*For this purpose, in mixed country teams, “The Effects of Drought Increase on Plant Diversity and Forests” Researched, learned and awareness raised ..*

We formed mixed teams with our project partners. We, as the 3rd team, researched “The Effects of Drought Increase on Plant Diversity and Forests” with our students. We held a meeting for this first. We made research. We shared our research articles in the forum. We created slogan and posters. We combined it with the book. We shared it on Twinspace pages.

*e BOOK

You can see our e Book work by clicking the link below.

https://www.storyjumper.com/book/read/105391516/6081d8602d287

*ABOUT OUR PROJECT PARTNERS

We worked together with 16 teachers and 145 students from Turkey, Albania, Spain, Portugal and Italy.” My Water of Life  ”we put a lot of effort into our project. We created ” Water Literacy ” awareness. Thank you very much to all our teacher and student project team.

Our project “My water of Life”, founded by my teacher FATMA KILIÇ and of which we are a project partner, will continue to raise awareness about “water literacy” related to the environment.

Our project, which started on 15.09.2020, will continue until 30.05.2021.

Nazan YILMAZER  / Osman Nuri Hekimoğlu Anatolian High School / Konya / TURKEY

THE NATURE IS CALLING US / Global Climate Change

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Author: Gonca BAHAR

THE NATURE IS CALLING US is an international eTwinning project. The purpose of our project is to gain awareness of being environmentally conscious and leaving a livable world to new generations. To instil this consciousness to individuals, to raise conscious individuals who are respectful to nature also means to invest in the future.
It is possible to raise environmentally friendly individuals by transferring this awareness to them at the right time and in the right way. For this, collaborative work that will be carried out with activities that bring environmental awareness raise our project to its target.

Our project aims to expand our awareness in different layers of society by developing our students’ awareness of being respectful to the environment and being environmentally conscious. By targeting effective learning in communication with the group by using information technologies, students learnt to interact in a group and also use web 2.0 tools within the scope of these activities. They also improved their foreign language skills.

Our students in this project:
• Became conscious regarding water consumption and gained environmental awareness.
• Using the STEM approach, they gained awareness of the negative effects of global climate change on the world.

The project was held in partnership with schools in Turkey, Albania and Italy. There were 26 schools and teachers in the project with 300 students participating (approximately). In this project, mixed school teams worked as 13 teams in total, in order to draw attention to Global Climate change. Our activities took place betwen 20 – 30 April 2020.

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