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Reusing paper, recyling paper, plastic, glass, batteries, school gardening, trainings about zero waste are some of our sustainability activities at school.

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At my school we used to have an urban garden where we grew lettuces and carrots. Now, due to covid restrictions we had to stop it. We will continue in the future. Also, the students went to different forest affected by wildfires to check the dammage done to the land and what it takes for it to heal.

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Οur school is bioclimatic that is , it is designed in such a way that heat loss is reduced and energy is saved as well as its south orientation allows the optimal use of sunlight. Μoreover, there have been special sensors installed which measure particles in the air. These particles which come from combustion sourses are considerd responsible for causing serious illnesses and altering weather patterns. The measurements that are monitored daily give a clear picture of the quality of the air in the city and that can be really valuable in the long run as well.

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We are used to prepare a Christmas tre by using plastic bottles that are cut in order to create decorations

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I'm an art teacher, my classes are a privileged space for the realization of creative plastic works. It is possible to create the beautifulness out of garbage.

We live in a society that considers everything disposable, the single use of a product is one of the biggest pollution problems of the planet. My project will participate in a contest promoted by the Local Autarchy “Eco Natal 2021” and aims to make students and the community aware of the importance of the 3 Rs policy: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle and warn against excessive consumption at this time of the year. Christmas is for all budgets, just reduce consumption and distribute more affection.

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A few years ago we cultivated 8 different Greek herbs in my class. Each student belonged to a group that had to research, cultivate and at the end offer us an herbal drink grown by his group. When planting the seeds or roots we had the help of an agronomist.

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At our school, we planted some trees and now we eat the fruits of those trees. Also, we are surrounded by mountains around us and sometimes we go for a walk with our students.

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In my school there was once a campaign to recycle clothes. My proposal, inspired by that one, would be to collect toys, repair them, if they are not in good condition, and deliver them to interested families in our area. At the same time, students could learn about the materials, manufacture and distribution of toys,

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Organise a Swap Clothes event. The students will update their wardrobe or cupboard without buying new things. They will have the opportunity to exchange second hand clothes from other students. people and product. This way they can be aware of the amount of water and energy used to make clothes and some harmful chemicals used.

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As I work in a secondary school, projects from the school in Montpelier really inspired me. Our school is located in a valley where most of enery derives from hydroelectric power plants. It can be interesting to study the impact of climate change on glaciers and on the amount of water deriving from these. With the help of a physics teacher we could build a turbine and calculate the energy produced from a certian amount of water.

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We have an eTwinning project "Let's learn outdoors" were we work the sustainability, rise the awareness and the love for our place and our planet with younger kids.

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Şeniz Sebe                                                             Adana /Turkey                                                 Our school is eco-school  .It is voluntary to sort out the waste and reuse ,recycle and reduce them. For ınstance reuse making different type of food from stale bread,recycle, create awareness to consume less

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Şeniz Sebe                                                             Adana /Turkey                                                 Our school is eco-school  .It is voluntary to sort out the waste and reuse ,recycle and reduce them. For ınstance reuse making different type of food from stale bread,recycle, create awareness to consume less

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In the school,I really have to raise awareness for sustainability.We have a big garden and ıt will be easy to grow sth with students.

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At school,we are doing an eTwinning project about Sustainable development goals. We do and will do many activities about sustainability. For instance, we have a dormitory and we organized boxes for the waste food. We put food, bread, plastic materials and garbage seperately. Then, the food and bread is taken away to the animal shelter, and plastic materials are put into the recycle bins. This is only one activity. We will do many activities like these.

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We could enlarge the garden that we already have in our school and set garden walls in more school places. We could "greenify" our classrooms with plants.
Moreover, one more thing that we could do is to start recycling used oil. There are companies that organise this kind of thing for schools

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The school is a eco-school and we have several projects as food week, students help the younger to use correctly the eco-point,...

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We could start with school garden, and build from there. it would also be good to establish partnership with more experienced schools, maybe through Erasmus KA2 project.

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Our school has been labelled “eco school” (more than once) by the ministry of education. We try to care about our planet by taking small steps, which are big leaps to all of us. As our school is located in a very beautiful and green space, it has always been our concern to protect our surroundings: we only have indigenous species/plants;	in Sciences and Biology classes our students have already marked and labelled species; students have built wooden boxes for birds which they hung in trees; students have also grown a vegetable garden (and we have even eaten lettuce from it); at the canteen students choose the portion they want to eat to reduce waste (furthermore, the food that is not served can be brought home at a small price);	students and teachers have also participated in “plogging” activities both inside and outside school;	students are also encouraged to carry out different projects about the need to protect the planet and speak about them; our Art students have built beautiful sculptures with waste for our school gardens; we have a photovoltaic system ...

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Our school has been labelled “eco school” (more than once) by the ministry of education. We try to care about our planet by taking small steps, which are big leaps to all of us. As our school is located in a very beautiful and green space, it has always been our concern to protect our surroundings: we only have indigenous species/plants;	in Sciences and Biology classes our students have already marked and labelled species; students have built wooden boxes for birds which they hung in trees; students have also grown a vegetable garden (and we have even eaten lettuce from it); at the canteen students choose the portion they want to eat to reduce waste (furthermore, the food that is not served can be brought home at a small price);	students and teachers have also participated in “plogging” activities both inside and outside school;	students are also encouraged to carry out different projects about the need to protect the planet and speak about them; our Art students have built beautiful sculptures with waste for our school gardens; we have a photovoltaic system ...

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İklim krizinin etkilerini anlama ve bunlara uyum sağlamada siyasi politikaların etkisi.

I am a biology teacher. In my classroom, I carry out the projects with the curriculum. It is important for my students and me to carry out collaborative work with European partners in my projects that I am the founder of.
Our projects are important for climate change awareness. Creating various modules for climate crisis awareness in the classroom. Progressive education is important. . We support our lesson plan before and after the discussion with projects. He also trains some classroom climate volunteers. With joint leadership, I would support the political, economic, social and societal dimensions of the climate crisis with various digital materials. Our previous projects are important stages for them. Climate Volunteers takes volunteers first, our second project, Green Innovation, addresses innovation, agriculture, food, water and energy management as a further level for the Climate crisis.

1st stage, https://twinspace.etwinning.net/106710/home https://climate-volunteers.weebly.com/

Phase 2, https://twinspace.etwinning.net/123007/home https://greeninnovationetwinning.weebly.com/

Discussion questions, How will immigrants be affected in the event of the climate crisis?
How are women affected by the effects of climate change?

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Voicu Corina, Romania-in my school we do projects about how to recycling!

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Voicu Corina, Romania-in my school we do projects about how to recycling!

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Our school is outside the city and with a big yard around it. This has given us the opportunity to do a lot of activities and projects with our students. We have planted many trees, fruit trees, plants, flowers around the school, stimulating students to be involved in environmental issues. Also, some school subjects are done outside; the school breaks are in nature, too. Students love the idea of taking care of plants, offering in the environment, and being part of different projects.

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In our school various projects and conferences are scheduled yearly to train teachers and students on how to integrate the theory they learn during the lessons ( about agricultural methods, farm animals breeding methods,characteristics of plants and anatomy of farm animals) with good practices that, anyway students develop during practice lessons such as olive trees prune, olive picking, olive oil making, grapes  picking and wine making. Each year University professors have conferences in our school on how to adjust farm practices according to the respect and protection of our environment. Some of the most interesting  are these:
- https://www.agrariopescia.edu.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Allegato_Corso-Cambiamenti-Climatici.pdf
- https://www.agrariopescia.edu.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/scheda-descrittiva-oltre-la-soglia.pdf
- https://www.agrariopescia.edu.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/scheda-descrittiva-orticoltura-didattica-a-scuola.pdf

Other practices are the use of aluminium bottles provided to every student by our Council authority t avoid using plastic bottles. Every student has to carry his/her bottle and use it for the whole 5 school years. Then the snack dispose machine has been eliminate from our school hall and students who do not have snacks from home can ask and have a healthy and fresh snack from the school canteen.

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Il compito green n.1 - semina e pianta ai tempi del lockdown

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I like both ideas. We have animals and garden in our school but not for children :/
I have an idea about creating vertical garden on a wall of our school but haven't started yet.

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In the context of engaging both the school and the local community we are aiming at promoting tree planting sessions in our school yard with the collaboration of the forestry department. Enriching our school garden with endangered local flora will hopefully further stimulate our students to actively get involved in environmental issues and contribute into establishing our school herbarium.

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In 2023, it will be mandatory, here in Portugal, to separate all household waste, so I thought of making my students aware of the separation and valorization of biowaste, developing a composting project in collaboration with the municipality.

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Last school year, together with my students and other schools, I studied the types of plastics and created many challenges with the Litterati smartphone app. With this application we were able to label and geolocate the garbage.
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/151015/home

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Studying plastics and creating an envinronmental impact with the app Litterati

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As a music teacher, with just one 90-min. lesson/week, my action is limited. Nevertheless, I always try to bring these ecological issues to the discussion.
One little example:
I've developed several eTwinning projects in recent years about these matters - A Voyage of Sea Discovery, BLASTIC, Litter@sea, ClimACT News -, and even my Erasmus+ "On the edge" had environment, ecology and nature, as topics (not all topics had to do with these issues, though).
But I can't keep doing the 'same', year after year. I want and need to diversify the themes of my projects. So, this year, one of my projects is called "PASSPORTal". It has to do with landmarks.
One doesn't really need to develop projects about sustainability, climate change, pollution, etc. to address these issues as well. So, in my PASSPORTal project, kids will find out how to reach other countries in a more sustainable way, how to be prepared to not not use plastic bottles during a trip, and things like that.
Environmental, sustainability education can and should be addressed in any kind of project.

But, of course, I'm amazed with the so many wonderful projects and initiatives shared on this Padlet. Wish I could be there and learn from your exemplary schools!

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This school year my students were involved in the Climate Action project, and now we are carrying out the projects: Green Gardens and Blue School. Students are excited and eager to find viable solutions.

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Meet S.E.C.H, the agent of change!
Sustainable Education and Cultural Heritage eTwinning project

Mother Earth has an agent of change! SECH is a detective who solves mysteries of all kinds. Due to COVID pandemic wanderlust has gripped him, and now he is suffering and frequently likes to vanish on some journey in different countries, discovering their cultural heritage and the environmental issues of the world around them. Students aged between 5-11 are invited to join him and learn about cultural heritage and sustainability. SECH hopes that the impact of solving mysteries will be result in a growing awareness and appreciation for cultural heritage of partner countries, and in a meaningful sense of responsibility regarding the protection and preservation of the environment.

Mother Earth has spread in the world a map of amazing countries, with wonderful places and enchanting traditions. It has a message that people seem to ignore. SECH is here to take us through different adventures. Let’s help him to find the clues in each section of the map and reveal the secret.

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SECH, the agent of change/eTwinning Project

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Mariana, Romania. Students and teachers of our school do this every year:plant flowers and trees, working on different projects regarding the environment. 

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Mariana, Romania. Students and teachers of our school do this every year:plant flowers and trees, working on different projects regarding the environment. 

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My school is an Eco school. Also this year we are participating in an etwinning project about climate change. In the photo you can see our christmass ornaments made by tree leaves.

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Our school has been labelled ecoschool in 2018 by the ministry of Education. We have many projects going on linked to sustainable development:

We have working team composed of students, teachers and staff.We meet three times a year to discuss future projects to implement and decide on actions. Students have created a logo for this purpose.

we have implemented different bins for waste - paper /cardboard/garbage every waste is sorted

we have implemented two compost bins

we have planted trees in the courtyard

eco-representative students are in charge to switch off lights, shut windows to save energy

at the canteen students can choose their portion of food to avoid wasting food

we participate in a  community vegetable garden in the school neighbourhood to learn how to grow our own food

there are workshops to learn how to make slow cosmetics

there are  workshops to learn  how  to upcycle clothes

we have created a virtual company to learn how to sell in a e-shop

participation to a project for the creation of sustainable companies "creating together"

we have cleaned beaches with the surfrider foundation

we have created and played games about environment

we are involved in Etwinning projects about climate change and environment

we also have an instagram page for our sustainable actions #E3DSVPBX

Everyday and by small acts our school tries to improve environmental sustainability and our school teachers and staff are ready to continue encouraging students and make them capable to take decisions for tomorrow.

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http://os-ljgaja-ng.skole.hr/?news_id=1905 Our student won the prize for her greenhous for strawberries. She built it herself with the help of D&T teacher.
In 2017 students built a bug hotel in our school's yard to attract bugs.
http://os-ljgaja-ng.skole.hr/?news_hk=1&news_id=1508&mshow=1323
In my other school, there's a plan to create a real greenhouse for fruit and vegetables which the students will grow and take care in their extracurricular activities.

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Last year my students and other schools participated in an educational project - friends of nature. During the project, we have recycled fir cones making ornaments for the Christmas tree, we have made toys made of plastic bottles, CD, we have planted flowers in the school garden,

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Last year my students and other schools participated in an educational project - friends of nature. During the project, we have recycled fir cones making ornaments for the Christmas tree, we have made toys made of plastic bottles, CD, we have planted flowers in the school garden,

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Our students are developping a project about circular economy. Six classes and 12 teachers decided to use the circular economy as a base to sustainability.
The Circular Economy complements digital learning and provides a unique lens to raise the students’ environmental awareness.
Using an online learning platform ours students will learn about sustainable fashion, using a learning-by-doing approach.
Group activities will promote their creativity, confidence, train analytical and problem solving skills.

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https://youtu.be/O0ihGIElAMQ
The project is called "Building Resilience to Disasters and Climate change" and it was developed in 2020.
Our final product is a wiki page.
https://sites.google.com/view/diaryonclimatechange/home
This is our collaborative essay.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bFXfpO0_xp8mRv8tLtqy9mivuDSjA-rMF1rmXP7HP6o/edit
This is our blog, the Romanian one.
https://teentitansclimatechange.weebly.com

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Dissemination of  2020 eTwinning project ''Building resilience to disasters and climate change''

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I live in Isparta, one of the cities in Turkey known as the region of lakes. There are many precious lakes around us. Salda lake, which is likened to the surface of Mars, Eğirdir lake, which meets the drinking water of the city, and Gölcük lake, which is a natural wonder as a crater lake, are some of them. Our students have visited these lakes, which are easily accessible, many times. They experience how our lakes, which are a source of fresh water, are withdrawn with each passing day. Those whose families are engaged in agriculture tell their problems to their classmates. This is a great project topic for us.
1-The problem is observed at the site with trip-observation
2-Water ambassadors game is played by students
3- Water footprint calculation is done
4- Poster designs that draw attention to the subject are made
5-Waste recycling seminars are organized to draw attention to the importance of recycling.
6-A project competition on the subject of zero waste is held at the school.

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Birds and sustainability . We were rasaurched, recycled and than we made birds feeders .

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One of the roles of teachers is to develop 21st-century competencies in students, and developing environmental awareness plays a very important role. Namely, we are witnessing increasing climate change caused by human impact on nature. Therefore, it is important to make students aware of the importance of thinking and acting in order to improve living conditions and make students responsible citizens.

Since my students are eight years old, I wanted to show them in a simple and close way how important it is to act immediately and continuously. I decided to show them how important birds are in maintaining the ecosystem, how we can help them in the winter when it is cold and when there is not enough food.

We also got involved in the eTwinning project 'Plants and Animals of the Homeland', and started research.

The first task was to explore the school environment, to understand what an ecosystem is and how it works using NBS resources, to study plants characteristic of our homeland. Students researched, drew, photographed, and made a video in the AdobeSpark application.

The image is author's own and has been provided by the author - Attribution CC-BY

The image is author's own and has been provided by the author - Attribution CC-BY

The second task was to study the birds that live in the school environment and to investigate which are the migrants and which are the tenants by entering them at the table. We used NBS and Oppla portals. After that, they had to describe one bird as desired with a few sentences, and at the and they played games.

The image is author's own and has been provided by the author - Attribution CC-BY

The image is author's own and has been provided by the author - Attribution CC-BY

The third task was recycling. The students brought plastic bottles to school. They were reminded of what recycling is and why it is important for environmental protection. After watching the tutorials, they received leaflets with instructions on how to make it and went to work. The creative and diligent hands of the students created beautiful houses that lined up one after the other, waiting for the birds to cheer.

The image is author's own and has been provided by the author - Attribution CC-BY

We published the results of our work on the eTwinning portal in the group 'Plants and animals of our homeland', wanting to encourage project participants to the same activities, and to preserve and sustain the environment.

The last task of our small project about birds was to make various types of bird feeders and place them together with the made houses on the trees in the schoolyard. The students made two types of feeders, one in a net from a potato bag and the other in a pine cone.

Together we took them to the schoolyard, placed them on trees in the hope that indeed our project will help the little birds to survive because in this way we have achieved the goal of our project, which is to preserve the environment in which we live every day.

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Returning to school, the students asked me what our next project is because we can certainly do a lot more to make our environment healthier and better to live. The idea was born immediately.

The next project is to make a school hanging garden!

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Birds. Green spaces and urban regeneration - The STEM Discovery Campaign Blog

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One of the roles of teachers is to develop 21st-century competencies in students, and developing environmental awareness plays a very important role. Namely, we are witnessing increasing climate change caused by human impact on nature. Therefore, it is important to ... Continue reading →

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in our school there is a volunteer club where students discuss enironmental issues in and around the school. They are already made stickers with eco messages like turn of the light, turn of the water. Currently they are making Christmas decorations from waste and bird feeders for birds around school.

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In my school we teach pupils how to sort out their waste. Some pupils had made a video to explain their mates how to do it.
Other groups made birdhouses. I remember sharing a project with Spanish teachers . They had  their groups make kites with things thay had found (sticks, plastic sheets, photocopies they were not used...). They had hund them on the ceilings in their in their school.
During a school trip in Ireland in a seal rescue place, the staff had brought plastic bottles found on the beach and had made a pouffe.

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Our students make compost from plant waste. We collect and sort plastic waste and make a filament from it, with which we make various decorations and pendants.
A few years ago, we replaced all the classic light bulbs in the school with LED lighting.

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I do 'green topics' every year with my students in our English lessons and we usually do it as a PBL lesson where students have to choose a problem to deal with in their households. Most of the time it's just simple things, like recycling or upcycling and they love these activities.

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In our school, we have a small photovoltaic system  that powers consumers such as light bulbs. We have heating cells that supply some radiators with heat energy. Also, we have a biomass stove, which is only intended to promoting biomass energy. Related to that, i could propose some ideas such as extending solar heating to the whole school and to expand the photovoltaic system, so that we can power all the appliances in the school.

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This year, the students stated in their civic education that they lack flowers around the school.
So I would try to arrange a few flower beds with them until Planet Earth Day. There is a lot of space around the school where this could be achieved. A work plan should be made together with them. From filming the space, the look of the flower garden, studying the flower beds, procuring the plants, planting and caring for the flowers.

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In my school there was an ecology project where students made and decorated benches for sitting, but inside were containers for used plastic, paper, batteries. We also had a composting container and students brought food remains and deposited it there. Some art teachers made with their students Christmas decorations from recycled materials.

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In my school there are small vegetable gardens, where students from 4th to 8th grade plant vegetables, being a teacher of Physics and Chemistry, I will propose two ideas that I saw in the videos and I think they are very good:
- the installation of a compost bin that uses food waste from the canteen;
- the installation of photovoltaic panels that provide energy for automatic irrigation.
I think these are two good ideas to involve my 11th grade students in the younger ones' activities, making the vegetable garden activity more sustainable.

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I have worked on climate change and sustainability on Minecraft.

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I have worked on sustainability and recycling in some of my eTwinning projects. Photos are of these examples. This year, I am planning to establish an eTwinning project at the primary school level on sustainability in the 2nd term.

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Sustainable STEM

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I would like our students to get the opportunity to grow crops at school because we have a nice yard we could use. We could have our own vegetable garden or flower garden. We planted some trees in last couple of years but we could go further.

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Our eTwinning project is about this subject this year. We are doing good work with students.

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Recycle build and donate - eTwinning project

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eTwinning project.

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Our school encourage to involve as many students as possible in  activities such as planting trees and flowers, cleaning different areas, recycling materials. We are trying to develop long term abilities for doing this not only in school life, but at home life. We also present them to parents and we ask for their support. This year my students participated to a project regarding wasting problem - from natural resources to ordinary products (like clothes). They presented to the rest of the school students the wasting effects, pointing the its importance. We done activities of creating new products friendly with nature from old or used materials useful for them.

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In my school we teach students to do proper recycle and what materials can be converted to other roles. Like, for example, using coffee capsules as fertilizer.
Then we give those materials to places that convert them in the circular economics that we pretend and do their reuse and recycle.

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As an Eco school, we use to promote sustainability in our school. We are mostly focused on recycling and waste management,but this year we will expand our activities. The Erasmus project about Climate Change in which we are participating, offers us new opportunities to improve our initiatives and be more creative. You can see more activities here :http://2dim-n-eryth.att.sch.gr/wordpress/?page_id=565

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European week for waste reduction 2021 with Edison Robot

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An etwinning project called Act Green and an erasmus project about eco friendly behaviours are being implemented in my school this year

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I organized a project in partnership with a local NGO and the aim was to encourage students to recycle.

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In the previous year students carried out a green project in my school.
They created an environmentally friendly garden and were awarded for this initiative.
Now they are engaged in the care of their garden.

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In my school there used to be a flower and vegetable garden. Students used to plant different herbs and take care of them every week. They learnt from an early age to act locally, think globally.
I would like to continue this project.

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I am planning to have some cross- curricular activities in my project. The idea that every teacher could take part in teaching climate literacy is really appealing. Deforestation, food or waste management are the topics I would like to explore in greater depth.
Furthermore, I am thinking of joining the Go Global exchange opportunity. This way I could be all the time part of a network of Eco schools.

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Our school is situated next to a very beautiful forest and has a huge yard.We created a small school garden and planted vegetables in it.This year we are planing to create a small green house so we are going to involve our pupils in the procces of the food production.We believe that this is one of the best ways for the children to udopt an eco friendly action and behavior about environment and about our planet.

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I am considering to develop a project on composting with the collaboration of municipality. The municipality has already started a campaign on composting so we can raise awareness on it and practice it both in the school and homes

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Zero Waste project is a good idea for all level of students. That is one of the projects I am conducting in my class. Trying to learn and apply 5R principle.

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In previous years I used the Ecomapping tool (which has been discontinued!), based on a sort of PDCA cycle (Plan- Do - Check - Act) aimed at continuous improvement.
Schools would conduct some audits on their consumptions, waste production, wellbeing at schools, etc and then define and implement improvement actions. I think it was very effective and engaging.

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Ecomapping is a visual and easy-to-use toolbox that gets employees involved in good environmental practise.

It is the first step towards integrating environmental considerations into the day-to-day activities of small organisations.

Ecomapping is useful for the implementation of ISO 14001, the EMAS regulation or for green productivity.

Ecomapping is

an inventory of practices and problems

a systematic method of conducting an on-site environmental review

a collection of information which shows the current situation using visual language and a sketch of your workplace

an adult learning and awareness-raising tool

a tool which allows employee involvement and participation

Ecomapping is environmental management "light"

it helps in learning about and collecting data

it supports training and communication and internal audits

it is the basis of environmental documentation for your organisation

everyone in your organisation can use it as a support for their work and training

everyone in your organisation can participate without having to read heavy written procedures and instructions

it is a method which allows your small organisation to define and prioritise problems

Environmental management components of ecomapping at a glance

Ecomapping brings your key environmental management information together on a single A4 page.

The development of ecomaps on water, soil, air, waste management, etc. is not a goal in itself. The main interest lies in the fact that it is a participatory learning process that brings immediate positive action and results.

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EUROPA - Environment - Emas - Training Material and Case Studies

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european commission - The eco-management and audit scheme of the EU is to foster improvements in the environmental performance of overall economic activities by committing individual organisations to evaluate and improve their own environmental performance. Training Material and Case Studies

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I have been running sevral project in the last years. Usually there students and teachers from all over the worlds. So my students have an opportunity to learn about real problems in different part of globe.

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By participating Less Consumption Less Waste, Zero waste etc projects we try to raise awareness about Sustainability.

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In our kindergarten, many of the group's activities have moved to the kindergarten yard, this is based on an Erasmus project in which we are coordinators. Thus, children learn to love and protect the environment.

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I have done a "Climate Action Project" during October and November this year and my 5th graders loved it; they were willing to participate in all the activities.

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In my school (11-14 yo) we have an organic garden with teachers and students dealing with it, using daily organic waste to fertilize it. We used to prepare cream and oil from aromatic plants

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A project I would love to implement at my school it would be about recycling old textiles and trying to reduce the use of plastic bags in the kids household by having each child make their own textile bag and paint it.

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Personal and local actions for global effects

"You are not just the drop in the ocean, you are the might ocean in the drop".
I would like to start my project with this wonderful quote by Rumi, in order to elicit students' power to act for the future of our environment. Starting from this assumption, I would get students involved in a more active and conscious way to be a  good citizen. I'd surely start from the analysis of their carbon footprint, and then  involve them on tracking their habits via UN apps. Presentations would help older students to show and spread new ideas first  inside the school and then to families and people living around via leaflets and infographics. Flipping the classroom could be a good methodology to let them acquire more info for their presentation work. Finally, I would get them engaged in the reality of their city, Naples. Students should chooce a relevant issue, research reliable information and then do interviews with local stakeholders. A debate activity could be useful to discuss viable solutions. -

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In this school year we are doing an eTwinning project on sustainable goals with the participation of 20 teachers and more than 300 students from 10 countries. The name of our project is "Climate Literate". You can find details about our project in the link below:
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/192476/home

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I'm thinking about a project about recycling waste. But in this project, students will not just collect and recycle waste. They will also create digital games, stories, pictures, posters, poems and songs.

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This year, students from my school participate in an environmental education project involving biodiversity in the protected area Jiu Gorge National Park

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In my school I have organised a project about the climate changes. Save the heart of our Planet! was the name of my project. The students have learnt about how to save our planet, about plastic pollution, how we can try to keep it save.

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Being a Blue School we take part in actions related to the ocean protection. This year our aim is to reduce litter at sea. We have already organised some clean up actions, but we are more focused on promoting a prevention campaign for the commmunity, for fishermen and tourists.

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I wasn't aware of the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR). The idea is brilliant and a hands-on approach for students. Thus, I'm going to sign up for next years edition for sure.

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I congratulate everyone for their great ideas. As for me, I am a researcher working on developing educators' capacity to implement sustainability education. The whole idea is that if the teachers have the knowledge, skills, values, attitude, and commitment, the ripple effect will make a whole-school idea come to life. Therefore, we are working on developing a continuous professional program on teacher education for sustainable development. Teachers' competencies cannot be under-emphasized in all of our ESD endeavors.

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This week we are participating in the European Waste Reduction Week (EWWR) and we are promoting, in collaboration with families, the “Take and Bring” activity. It consists of the exchange, among students, of books and toys that they no longer use, thus contributing to practical solutions for working with the concept of circular community. The theme is also being worked on in several curricular areas, promoting the creative writing of stories with the creative process based on elements of nature. It would be interesting to develop a project in which students could create the city of the future taking into account the environmental policies of the coming years and debate the current role of students in the development of sustainable societies..

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I would like to tackle the problem of plastic pollution with my students. We could have different stages of our project- find information about plastic waste, plastic in oceans, microplastics, make leaflets for the whole community, film videos, create memes.

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The eTwinning project I did with my colleagues last year was based on reducing waste, recycling, conserving water and making a greener world. At the end of our project, our students adopted nature-friendly behaviors. They considered it their duty to protect nature. This year, we will develop our project by adding new ideas. Our students will be more sensitive about sustainable environmental awareness in the future.

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This is the logo of an eTwinning project about sustainability I joined 2 years ago:
https://live.etwinning.net/projects/project/20
3063

About the project:

This project is to raise awareness about pollution and waste at school and what pupils can do to improve the situation (agenda 2030). They will also recycle waste to create objects to give to charities.

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I read what my partners in this course already wrote and it looks like that everything had been said. Schools and schools problems are very similar around Europe. I would like to work on a project that involves/combines at least two of the ideas I read: lighting bulbs, organic garden, reducing consumption, recycling, for example. But, I would like to do too is to involve the Local Council to work with us like I read here, an idea that I had before arrive to this Padlet.

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A few years ago in the school where I worked, the "Piedibus" project was carried out in which the school bus was replaced by a snake of boys who went to school on foot every morning. Obviously, this project was possible because the school was located in a small town but it nevertheless contributed to spreading awareness of the need to minimize the use of cars.

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I am one of the founders of a project through which my school applied for financial funds for arranging a park in the school yard, with trees, flowers, alleys and benches where students can carry out activities in nature. The project was successful and obtained funding. We are waiting for the arrival of the funds to start the works for the park.

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It would be my dream, after having the right infrastructure, involving the Local Council and voluntary organizations, to have a sustainable mobility plan around our school area. Instead of witnessing countless numbers of cars and buses congesting the school entrance, I would like to see our students coming to school by their bicycles, scooters and on foot, through a well prepared, organized and safe path.

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As I have already mentioned in another activity my school is a school which works environmental projects almost every year.
We have already prepared our own organic garden and are going to plant the new plants.Children love working there and learn the importance of producing your own food in an eco friendly way.

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A project related to energy consumption. One day a week we do classes outdoors, without consuming electricity, without phones or tablets.

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My school is a vocational  high school for girls and we've already began to prepare a garden for our school so i think we will adapt the idea of an organic garden

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In my school we have a big green area with trees (fruit, avocado...) and part of it is used to plant some vegetables and herbs. The products are distributed among the school community. There are also some ducks in a small lake. Younger students from the cluster may visit our school and older students lead them in a guided tour to engage them from a younger age.

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I have been running different projects for 5 years. Last year 6 years old kids worked with a school from Malta and one from Spain to an eTwinning project called Plants will save us. Two years ago students ar primary and secondary schools collaborate in an eTwinning project about Climate change. We are still working with 6 Countries (Erasmus project) at climate change. Kids aged 6 are still working in an eTwinning project about water while students in the 5th class about energy. European projects can be a great tool to deal with this topic .

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It is increasingly necessary to start from the lowest levels of schools, integrating a sustainable development program. If we cannot get the students to make it their own from the first years, then it is very difficult to connect them with these programs. If they participate but not out of conviction or desire to change, but out of obligation and of course the results, they leave much to be desired and we cannot waste any more time, a change is urgent now.

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My school is a vocational high school. I would like to create ecological institutional gardens with the contributions of the departments in my school. In addition, there is an agriculture department and greenhouses in my school. Here, a project to increase the use of renewable energy can be implemented. Awareness can be created by focusing on compost fertilizer production with the residues formed in the greenhouse.

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More and more schools around the world are adopting whole-school approaches to climate action. In a wholeschool approach, students’ classroom learning about climate change is reinforced by the formal and informal messages promoted by the school’s values and actions. In other words, students – girls and boys alike - and other members of the school community live what they learn, and learn what they live.

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Sustainability is a very wide-ranging field of study.I would like to do a garden with ancestor seeds as a project topic related to this topic.We could exchange seeds with people from different cities and different countries.Thanks to this, we could even get new species from ancestral seeds.

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This year, the students of my class are participating in an environmental education project that involves the effects of wind energy on the environment.

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This week our school is participating in the European Week for Waste Reduction [EWWR2021], by organizing an information and awareness campaign within both the school and the wider local community about the importance of reusing and recycling clothes.

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https://youtu.be/BdgCf00nmxs

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