This project dealt with Agenda 2030. The idea was that the students would work on some goals of the United Nations document in a collaborative, digital and creative way. The starting point for each goal would be a piece of art, a video, a photo,a song, a piece of literature or comics. Aims
To enlarge the students' vocabulary
To develop the students' digital competences
To use innovative applications, teaching techniques and Web tools
To promote a student-centered learning
To become more competent users of ICT tools in education positively
To develop the students' self-confidence and creativity
To increase their motivation to learn
To improve their social skills by working in a collaborative way ,as a team
To give the students the opportunity to get to know different cities, cultures, schools and make new friends
To make English a fun lesson
To promote sustainability and its 3 dimensions (economic, social and environmental) so that they can become agents of change
To show respect for diversity of cultural expression and be curious about all of them
To make students aware of Agenda 2030 and its goals
COUNTRIES AND SCHOOLS INVOLVED
GREECE
2ο Γυμνάσιο Ευκαρπίας, 2nd Junior High School Efkarpias, Thessaloniki
ITALY
ICS "Pescara 6", Pescara
ICS "Pescara 8", Pescara
POLAND
TÜRKIYE
Korgeneral Enver Akoğlu Ortaokulu, Bandırma
Mehmet Azman Çavuş Ortaokulu, Karesi
SOCIAL MEDIA
Before the project was approved, the teachers had two meetings to plan it.
We started with the students' and the teachers' pre-surveys.
It was agreed that the students would comment on the results of theirs in order to get a common product with the analysis.
We were in charge of commenting question 4 about the web apps we know and Inés carried the task out.
This is the presentation that shows the analysis of the results.
When the European Day of Languages came, our team did lots of activities to celebrate it.
We spoke about its logo, this year's slogan 'Languages for Peace', we discussed the European Language Tree and assessed our language skills.
We also made some posters based on the slogan.
We worked collaboratively with the other teams on a poster.
As we were going to deal with the goals of the Agenda 2030, it was necessary to know it so we did some activities to introduce it in class.
First, we spoke about some pictures related to its goals and wrote a wordcloud on the board with key words.
Then, we used those key words to make our own digital wordclouds.
We watched a video and played a GAME.
We watched another video and we played a game about it.
We drew and described each goal of the Agenda.
In order to choose a tilte for the project, it was agreed that each team would suggested two and there would be an international competition.
We worked in pairs in our team. Each couple suggested a title and then we voted to choose the ones that would represent us.
Our suggestions were:
- The Best World for 2030
- Sustainable Community
- The Students Help the World
- Sustainable Life with the Agenda 2030
- It's Responsibility, Not a Game
- Fight against Injustice
- There's not Planet B
- The World from Sustainability
'IT'S RESPONSIBILITY, NOT A GAME' by Daniella and Daniel.
'THE BEST WORLD FOR 2030' by Jaime and Manuel
After the international poll, the most voted title was 'THE 2030 AGENDA WITH ART', suggested by the Portuguese team.
In November the first students' meeting was held.
The Italian students prepared a lesson about Agenda 2030 and a GAME about it.
Once they have talked about goal 13, we stopped for 20 seconds to honour the victims of
the floods that had happened in Spain.
the floods that had happened in Spain.
After the presentation, we played the game.
The next day we worked with everything seen during the meeting in class for those students that hadn't been able to attend.
We started working on our logo. We decided that each team would choose one and then we'll make the logo of the project joining all of them.
These are all the works of art that the Spanish teams suggested.
After a poll, the winner was ....
By DIEGO A. M.
GOAL 1: NO POVERTY
We decided to organize an online meeting where two students from each school would act as leaders.
There would be a COLLABORATIVE PRESENTATION.
Some students would present paintings or photographs depicting poverty by famous artists or photographers and would ask some questions.
Other students would introduce Michael Jackson's song "Man in the Mirror" and ask questions about possible actions to change the world and not be a bystander.
It was agreed that the final product would be a poster with word clouds created during the meeting, along with pictures.
GOAL 2: ZERO HUNGER
Students would create an e-book that would include: a short presentation of the problem, apps which allow people and supermarkets to save food, drawings by the students, recordings of the students reading the content, a link to a poster with tips to save food and recipes and games.
To start dealing with it, we saw some videos.
We made wordclouds with tips to save food.
We worked on the forums.
Carolina read a problem related to food waste.
Reyes read the information about the app FoodCloud, which helps not to waste food´
Inés F. made a drawing related to this app.
Inés P. made a drawing about Plant Jammer, an app that gives you recipes to cook with leftovers.
Vera read the recipe for meatballs using leftovers.
Jaime added some pictures to the recipe.
GOAL 4: FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND QUALITY EDUCATION
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GOAL 16: LANGUAGES FOR PEACE
We dealt with these goals on the European Day of Languages with lots of activities as you can see at the top:
- Discussions and posters about the slogan of this year
- Assessment of our language skills
- A common poster with all the participants in the project
GOAL 5: GENDER EQUALITY
We worked on different activities to begin with the topic.
We learnt about EMMELINE PANKHURST
We found this website with songs related to WOMEN'S RIGHTS and we finally worked on 'SUPERWOMAN' by ALICIA KEYS.
As a common product, it was decided that we'd create an ebook about important women in our countries and then we'd make a quiz about them.
In our team, first we chose our candidates:
1. AITANA BONMATÍ
2. ALEXIA PUTELLAS
3. GLORIA FUERTES
4. VICKY LÓPEZ
5. MARÍA SCHELGEL
We voted and we chose ALEXIA PUTELLAS.
Jaime, Julia, Mario and Manuel would find information and pictures about her and would write and read on the book.
GOAL 11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES
We decided that there would be a contest.
The aim of the contest was to let the students think about different ways to improve the sustainability of a city to make it greener. They would suggest10 tips to reach this goal represented in a collaborative poster made by international teams.
There would be 3 teams called: WATER, LAND and AIR.
For each school there would be two students who would collect the ideas of the classmates to share in one of the three international forum created on eTwinning.
Each team would suggest 0 tips for a greener city and would create a digital poster in a collaborative way.
The best poster would be voted by all the schools.
The awarded team would receive a certificate of the contest.
GOALS 12, 13, 14 & 15: SUSTAINABLE & RESPONSIBLE TOURISM
As a starting point, we worked on this WEBSITE about the topic.
Then, the teachers suggested different ways of working with it:
- A presentation
- Quizzes
- Games
- Guides
- Posters
- A sound map
- Walks
- Designing a sustainable accommodation
The teachers voted and chose the activity to work on.
GOAL 13: CLIMATE ACTION
The teachers in charge of this goal made a Padlet where all the participants could express their feelings and solidarity with the victims of the terrible floods that happened in Spain.
When Christmas came, we made some cards with our best wishes.
In order to celebrate Safer Internet Day, we assessed our digital competence and took a QUIZ created by the UK Safer Internet Centre.
As part of the project, we thought of tips / slogans to make a COLLABORATIVE POSTER.
In pairs, we worked on them and we came up with these ideas:
- THINK BEFORE SEARCHING ON THE INTERNET
- THINK BEFORE DOING SOMETHING, WE NEED SAFETY
- SAFETY ON THE INTERNET ISN'T A JOKE
- YOUR SAFETY IS IMPORTANT, ON THE INTERNET TOO
- THE INTERNET IS GOOD, DON'T SPOIL IT
- IF YOU ARE SAFE ON THE INTERNET, YOU'LL HAVE A BETTER LIFE
- USE YOUR MIND BEFORE DOING ANYTHING
We voted and chose the ones we liked the best.
The winners were:
SAFETY ON THE INTERNET ISN'T A JOKE by Julia and Inés F.
IF YOU'RE SAFE ON THE INTERNET, YOU'LL HAVE A BETTER LIFE by Vera and Daniella
We researched about the countries involved in the project when we had to make tourist brochures.
In February, the founders met to deal with the next steps and prepare all the teachers' meeting.
A week later, all the teachers met to speak about the following steps.
