3. A Comenius Project is an European Project where
schools from different countries work together in a
common topic project.
The topic of the project is about the environment.
The countries that take part in the project are:
Austria, Finland, France, Ireland, United Kingdom and
Catalonia.
4. Finland and France did Comenius projects
before.
Centcelles school also had experience, however
this is the first time we are the coordinators.
This week we celebrate the 1st Comenius
Meeting, where we will concrete the most
important points of the Project.
5. The main objectives of this project are:
Generate intercultural dialogue and be
tolerant to cultural differences.
Create awareness to our environment.
Make our students use English in real life
6. And the Concrete objectives are:
To realize how geographical conditions such as
seasons, agriculture, food, clothes, sports,
climate, climate change, mountains, population
have effect on our culture.
To be aware of our area and environment. Make
the effects of geographical conditions better.
To take care of our environment.
7. To make children and adults being aware of ecological
dangers and more careful about natural environment.
To compare clothes and seasons among the countries
of the project.
To understand the importance of learning English,
make pupils use English for international
communication and they will use English in real life
situations.
8. To promote intercultural dialogue through school
partnership in Europe.
To make our students be open and tolerant about
culture differences.
To know the schools and the educational systems of
each country and in consequence to analyze new
methodologies of the learning.
9. To use the new technologies as a pedagogical
support.
To exchange other cultures among children.
To exchange work, methodologies and languages in
the project meetings.
10. Activities:
Creation of a logo for the project.
Creation of a web/blog.
Comenius corner.
Initial and final survey about recycling and
environment.
Weather comparisons.
To prepare boxes to recycle in the class: paper, plastic
and waste.
Ecofriendly action posters. Explain things we can do
to protect the environment.
11. Travelling teddy bear.
Europe Quizzes.
To plant trees or plants in the vegetable garden
school.
Write a report of each visit and activities in the blog.
To make seasons comparisons about countries.
Videoconferences among children.
Creation of pen pals.
To take photos of the landscape and make a photo
story.
Art project with recyclable materials.