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COMENIUS 2011-2013TRAVELLING THROUGH THE SEAS OF EUROPE

INDEX

1. - DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT SUMMARYISSUES / PROBLEMS

2 .- OBJECTIVES APPROACHES

3 .- RESULTS EUROPEAN ADDED VALUEIMPACT

4 .- MAIN FOCUS PROJECT TOPICSEDUCATION / TRAINING CAMPSKEY SKILLS

5 .- PROJECT IMPLEMENTATIONDISTRIBUTION OF TASKSCOOPERATION AND COMMUNICATIONPARTICIPATION OF THE PARTICIPANTSEVALUATIONDISSEMINATION AND USE OF RESULTS

6 .- PARTICIPANTS AND ACTIVITIES

1. - SPAIN. - MANY SEAS AND ONE EUROPE2. - NETHERLANDS. - A SEA OF LIFE3. - FRANCE. - A SEA OF STORIES AND CULTURES 4. - GERMANY. - A SEA OF EDUCATION5. - ITALY. - A SEA OF LIGHT6.- POLAND.- A SEA OF MUSIC



1. - DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT

SUMMARY With this project, “Travelling through the seas of Europe,” we try to educate our students about the importance of our seas and encourage them to think of differentways that we can appreciate and protect our seas for the future.

The project involves learning about the various seas of Europe: history, geography,

legends, the influence of the sea, resources, communication, environment, living thingsand their relationships, problems and precautions relating to the pollution of thesevaluable treasures, culture, music and more. At the same time we need to create aconsciousness that is sensitive to the formation of, and contribution towards, asustainable environment with the seas ... in the end bring the sea to our schools andutilize it as a motivating element in education.

We will use an education line based on the story of the sardine traveller "ENIDRAS"who wants to learn many things about the seas of Europe and who will teach us, oneach imaginary trip, a variety of fun sequences.

Several schools in Europe, near the coast, have come together in this project toencourage students from 3 to 12 years old to work and learn together, utilizing newtechnologies to obtain information for the project, and looking for improvedcommunication through English, ultimately finding similarities and differences throughthe comparison and exchange of information.

Each country will focus on one of the thematic blocks which will comprise the variousactivities carried out by all of the countries: 1. Many seas and one Europe, 2. A sea oflife, 3. A sea of stories and cultures, 4. A sea of education, 5. A sea of light ,6. A sea ofmusic.

Furthermore, the project also aims at improving the communication skills of studentsand teachers to promote educational exchanges between schools in Europe. Whenstudents realize the importance of our oceans for the future of Europe, it will help topromote tolerance and understanding amongst nations.

The project will also focus on "best practices" with the incorporation of habits,attitudes, behaviors , etc. For a better European education, with the participation of allelements of society and the educational community, seeking cooperation and exchangeof good practices in education in order to improve its quality.

ISSUES / PROBLEMS

We intend to address several issues:Knowledge of the diversity of our seas; facts which are common knowledge for eachcountry but which are experiences that need to be shared in order to improve the skillsthat the students acquire in their earliest ages. Including the sea as part of oureducation and creating awareness that our future and the future of the seas should belinked, thereby seeking to improve any socio-economic opportunities that the seas canprovide us.The environmental concern for European seas in the future; an area in which humanshave made transformations and changes, making it necessary to create aconsciousness regarding the care and maintenance of our seas for future generations.

We want our project to provide an authentic and stimulating forum for the use ofEnglish within the communicative abilities of our similarly situated European friends.Good manners, at school, within the family, with friends, at home, in public places,taking care of our environment and our cities, in transportation ... it is definitely a goodidea, as a general idea, to be courteous.The use of new ICT technologies in education,



2 .- OBJECTIVES

Our interest is to work in a Comenius multilateral partnership to achieve the followingobjectives:

• Improve the quality of the school, in its educational aspects, through the achievementof objectives which improve educational performance of students and which improve

initial and continuing training of teachers, trainers and managers of our educationcenters.

• Promote educational efforts to reinforce the values of equality, solidarity, nonviolence, non discrimination, and training for Peace and for the improvement ofeducational behavior, good manners and civility to the project "Good Education",increasing awareness that a good education in attitudes, habits and behaviors arenecessary for life in society.

• Improve the quality and participation in school activities for students with specialneeds: immigrants, and students unmotivated by school life.

• Improve understanding of European social reality we live in, cooperate with theenvironment, and acquire a set of values and attitudes which promote key basic skillsthrough education and training system.

• Create intercultural dialogue through the experience of each individual discoveringnew knowledge, promoting the improvement of the environment and promoting apositive atmosphere in the classroom, school and the European contexts.

• Seek cooperation between education and the world related to the sea that cancontribute to improving the focus of studies and the professional orientation of our

students in the future.

• Promote the use of computers as a teaching tool, reinforcing the use of technologiesin school.

• Promote measures for learning English as a second language as a communicationtool, with skills to seek, obtain, process and communicate information by encouragingstudents to come into contact with other cultures through oral and written language.

• Eliminate communication barriers caused by language differences, bringing toperfection the techniques and working methods that contribute to the development ofsocial skills among students

• Develop various contents related to the knowledge and interaction of the physicalworld, in this case the sea, within the primary education curriculum.

• Create a communicative approach by the implementation of various educationalactivities along with the teachings of our mascot, the sardine "ENIDRAS," which he willbring when we go through all the seas of Europe, learning something new every day.

•We can achieve these objectives through the use of interactive multimedia lessons,

group work in different subjects: science, environmental education, first language,music education. Artistic education, games and more, ...



APPROACHES

The focal points will be six thematic blocks which encompass the diverse activitiesassigned to each country: 1. Many seas and one Europe, 2. A sea of life, 3. A sea ofstories and cultures, 4. A sea of education, 5. A sea of light , 6. A sea of music.

These activities and resources will be presented at the various meetings held in the

mobilization of participating teachers, who will submit the work done by the studentsand the activities proposed for each thematic block.

Our intention is to improve communication between students through regular mail, e-mail, blogs, and videoconferences, where the results will be documented on the projectwebsite. ICT will play a vital role in the development and presentation of project results.

The project should leave an indelible impression on the participants, being able to bringthe sea to the school through permanent murals, the development of a Europeanaquarium, the development of a digital book with the teachings of the sardine"Enidras," editing a school song dedicated to "The Seas of Europe”, and through

various other innovative school activities.

We would also want to achieve maximum exposure for our project in thosecommunities which are located nearest to the sea, which should be most familiar withour goals and should be best able to participate and take advantage of our results.

3 .- RESULTS

PowerPoint presentation: School and seasThe bulletin board

Build and disseminate the petsExhibition of travelling petsThe collection of each school (shells, corals, etc.).The Digital Photo AlbumA small dictionaryThe project websiteChristmas cards An album with seafood recipesThe digital book of short stories: of the Sardine EnidrasCrafts over the sea PowerPoint Presentation: The history, navigation, the boats.Europe Day ExhibitionCurricular teaching aidsMurals of the seaVideoconferencingMulticultural Festival of the seaPowerPoint presentation on good mannersCollection of materials from the sea.Teaching JobsPresentation of various traditional gamesPowerPoint Presentation: Sport in the sea

Diverse audiovisual material Song of the seas of Europe,European aquarium with the faces of studentsDuring the meetings parents prepare healthy food to members



EUROPEAN ADDED VALUE

It is essential that students begin to learn about their European friends at an early age,in order to obtain positive development of their basic competencies.

This project offers an ideal opportunity to develop communication skills, and the use ofICT, to transcend cultural, linguistic, and geographical barriers within a Europeanframework and, accordingly, prepare students to work together as European citizens in

the future.Knowledge of the diversity of the seas of Europe, and environmental concern for ourcommon waters, will help to create a European consciousness of respect andmaintenance.

First-hand experience, involving the participation of European partners, is veryenriching especially in the context of these educational endeavors and cannot beadequately replaced with mere academic learning about Europe.

This is the kind of experience that the project will provide to our students. Apart from

the added value of the professional experience for our teachers who will serve asagents for this exciting European project.

For students

Learn about their European friendsPositive development of core competenciesDevelopment of communication skillsImproving language skills through the use of EnglishGet forming an European awareness and maintenance of respect.Meet other European countries and other lifestyle

Activities related to the seaShare games, sports habits ... with children from other countries.To improve the welfare on a personal level, class and school

For teachers

Exchange information and broaden their horizonsImproving curriculum objectives and professional experienceObserve good educational practicesImprove our teaching techniquesShare experiences, strategies and materialsVisit other European countriesUnderstanding the European cultural variety

IMPACT

This project will help teachers and students to expand their horizons – regardingEuropean citizenship in general (similarities and differences).It will assist teachers in improving curriculum objectives.Students will gain experience with lifelong learning skills such as teamwork, improving

the environment, and the utilization of new technologies.It will promote creativity and a sense of entrepreneurship among students.It will help to develop a greater and pro-European knowledge in the participatingschools and their local communities.



4 .- PROJECT MAIN FOCUS

Environmental problems, care of the seas and natural elements common to all, climatechange (European, world) make it more important than ever to promote and enhancethe theme of the seas of Europe in the curriculum our schoolsFrom different regional communities environmental activities are undertaken to bringthe school to the sea, our project aims to expand and bring even more to students andeducational communities regarding the interesting world of the sea in all its aspects.

This is the focus of our project.

At the same time, increased opportunities for mobility within the EU underlines theneed for education to inculcate skills, attitudes and skills in students seeking a stake inimproving their foreign language, their native language and ICT skills.

The project will also focus on "Good manners" with the incorporation of habits,attitudes, behaviors, etc. For a better European education, with the participation of allelements of society and the educational community, seeking cooperation and exchangeof good practices in education in order to improve its quality.

This project provides an exciting and authentic environment for the development ofstudents and teachers and for the creation of a special interest in order to start thisprocess at an early age.

TOPICS

Knowledge of the environment: through the different areas of the curriculum work thethemes of knowledge: the seas, living, environmental education and sustainabledevelopment, intercultural education, learning about other European countries

Geography: European countries will meet, seas, hydrography, climate

Foreign language (English): Teaching, Learning and Communicating in foreignlanguages

Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology

Music: the song seas of Europe.

Arts : elaborate pet, crafts, shell collecting ...

Physical Education: Games, sports marine-related

New technologies: communication with other European students. Digital Competition

Social and civic competences: Good education in habits, attitudes and behaviors

Learning to learn

Cultural awareness and expression



5 .- IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT

DISTRIBUTION OF TASKS

The coordinating school of the project will oversee the work and promote the participation ofeach school by maintaining permanent contact with the other partners.

Each school will record the activities undertaken during the project meetings: CDROM, DVD,Video, and PPS ....,. There will be a bulletin board where we will publish all information receivedfrom the partners and prepare a pet traveling exhibit that will be exchanged at each meeting andwhich will travel through Europe. A digital album of each meeting will be developed.The host country will deliver 10 natural elements from their own sea to every school library(shells, coral, etc ....)The creation of a Website project will be the digital workspace for the collection of allinformation and materials as provided in the draft

1 .- SPAIN .- OCTOBER 2011 .- MANY SEAS AND ONE EUROPE

In Spain, each school will bring PPS presentations about their own school and the

characteristics of the sea of each country. We`ll organize all project activities.Presentation of the finished pet. Exposure at each school. Educational resources.Making an alphabet of the sea in different languages. Small dictionary.

Each school presents the work in their schools on pets, with material collected by students forpermanent exhibition. The theme of the seas of Europe is working in school until thismeeting. It will work the story: The sardine "Enidras" learns to....

PowerPoint presentation about the school and the characteristics of the sea of each country

The bulletin board, where they publish all information received from partners

Build and disseminate Pet .- Each member made a pet project-The sardine Enidras goestraveling, knowing all the seas of Europe and learning. Are exchanged at each meeting andare part of the permanent exhibition in each country.

Travelling pets exposition, which is exchanged at each meeting to travel to Europe

The collection of each school (shells, corals, etc., the host country will provide 10 naturalelements of sea itself to develop a collection together.

The Digital Photo Album. - It is a component of dissemination of the project. Each countryproduces and sends it to each member with the images of the meeting, showing the majoractivities and becoming part of the permanent exhibition at the school.

A small dictionary will be built with words in all languages of the association and will becompleted at each meeting with input from partners. The school, family, greetings, sea, fish,beach, food, etc..

The project website should be initiated at the beginning. - to enable communication betweenall and to complete the different sections and project folders. We will agree the process ofbuilding our Web

At Christmas, there will be different Christmas cards to be sent to each school for exhibitionat the bulletin board and prepare typical food recipes with seafood.



2 .- NETHERLANDS.- MARCH 2012.- A SEA OF LIFE

In the Netherlands each school presents their work in schools on the theme of the storiesthrough legends, songs, traditions of different countries on the sea and bring the album ofrecipes developed to show students. An instructional guide to find your own sea:Geography. Living things. The Sea as a source of wealth. The culture of sea craft to the sea,

fish,

An album of recipes with foods made with seafood in each country and are prepared in thestudents' families, known and practical dishes. The album is also exchanged at each meeting.

The digital book stories: BLOG Enidras sardine begins at the start of the project iscompleted with input from students OF different countries, telling the story of this little sardinetravelling through Europe's seas learning.

Crafts over the sea, so that smaller schools can receive a didactic our project will be made

various craft related to the sea,

3 .- FRANCE.- MAY 2012 .- A SEA OF STORIES AND CULTURES

In France, the participating schools present various casual games in the playground, and thecelebration of Europe Day with a small dossier on PPS. The project will be evaluated andorganized activities for the second year. Present the murals in schools over the sea. Writing:poems about the sea: Editorial. Exhibitions on the sea. Ecology: Let's take care keep theocean clean sea campaign and Videoconferences

PowerPoint Presentation: The history, navigation, the boats.

Europe Day Exhibition: Writing: poems about the sea: Editorial. Exhibitions on thesea. Ecology: Let's take care keep the ocean clean sea Campaign

Curricular teaching aids. Each thematic comes with a set of flash cards to be drawn forstudents of all countries to achieve the goals outlined in the project

Murals on the sea. Should be in every school a memory that lasts over time, you makeseveral murals in each school, during our project, and visualized through the differentpresentations

Videoconferencing with the use of new technologies, will do some video conferencingbetween different partners, consistent with the age of the students and using English asworking language



4 .- GERMANY .-OCTOBER 2012 .- A SEA OF EDUCATION

In Germany, each school will work activities of theater, drama, movement, taking as argumentthe seas of Europe. In a "Multicultural Festival on the sea" Here are these activities have beenundertaken in recent months of work. Also good education activities and improved behavior

Multicultural Festival on the sea, Europe's culture and all culture related to the world near

the sea, can be developed in the Multicultural Festival, to organize each country, andpresented in audiovisual format.

PowerPoint presentation on good education and improving the behavior

Collection of materials from the sea. Each country would provide a number of elements andmaterials in your own sea in each of the meetings to be leaving each school, a reminder ofEurope's seas to serve for the study of the students.

5 .- ITALY MARCH 2013 .- .- A SEA OF LIGHT

In Italy, present the didactic work made in classes each country on issues related to theconservation, care and improvement of the seas. Sport in the sea. Educationalactivities: typical games.

Work related educational aspects that are working, especially the sports world and the sea.

Presentation on various traditional games

PowerPoint Presentation. Sport in the sea

Develop diverse audiovisual material on DVD, CD or video, to allow disseminationto teachers of different countries, each meeting is provided in the work on computer.

Each school prepares the song "Seas of Europe" as a hymn in their own language

6 .- POLAND .-MAY 2013.- A SEA OF MUSIC

In Poland the children will sing songs and listen to the other schools that show on DVD, theywill construct a large mural of fish "European Aquarius" with pictures of all the participatingstudents as a permanent reminder of the project.Songs about the sea, popular children's exchange seafood.

Song of the seas of Europe, music plays an important role in the education of students inEurope. We will create a song dedicated to the seas of Europe and will be the studentsthemselves to interpret it,. At the end there will be a compilation CD.

European aquarium. To mark the end of our large project, each country would providevarious elements of construction paper each of the seas, to build a large aquarium in eachEuropean country with photos of participants



COOPERATION AND COMMUNICATION

Spain will be the coordinator of the Association and will maintain an overview of theproject maintaining the schedule and encouraging participation through a systematicfollow-up of the web page created for our project.

We have already created a project which is being made by TwinSpace with the

cooperation, communications and the participation of all the members and the teachersfrom different countries.

The main objective to prepare materials that will be useful in the future of our project;moreover we want to open this space to all the countries which have the influence of allthe European seas

Each national coordinator will be responsible for presenting the project to their ownschools and will disseminate information throughout the school and the community bymaintaining bulletin boards up to date with the project‘s activities.

Each school will ensure that all students participate in prescribed activities;Completing the final projects and meeting each deadline; following the project andtransmitting information and materials to other participating schools on the datesagreed.

All participating schools will communicate by mail, telephone, fax, email and ICT, theEnglish-language Website, and when agreed on they will also hold videoconferences.Spain will host the meeting in October 2011 and Poland will host the last meeting in2013.

During the meetings, the calendar scheduling the different work projects will be

prepared for the future stages involving the interaction between the participatingcountries.

PARTICIPATION OF EUROPEAN PARTNERS

All students and teachers will be able to participate in the activities at each school.The skills required for their implementation are present in every school by sharing ourtalent and resources relating to: ICT resources, the English language, the digital mediaand technology, art, music and more. ...

Students should discover the similarities and differences through the exchange ofinformation. In addition to improving communication skills as a result of culturalexchanges between schools in Europe, students will be made to understand theimportance of our seas for a European future and will promote tolerance andunderstanding among nations. The active participation of all partners will be ensured by:The ongoing participation of the project within each school through the curricula andannual action plans

With a quarterly monitoring of the activities provided through internet communicationand the exchange of crafted materials.The project is planned so that each school will participate in all activities mentionedabove; the host country must organize and supervise the work performed, as well asdevelop the assessment and conclusions



EVALUATION

The evaluation plan of the project would be grounded on 2 main pillars:Pre and post evaluation questionnaires are the main tools for the self-evaluation tounderstand the degree of the pupils’ awareness before the project and after the projectimplementation. Also interviews and keeping portfolios related to the project themesare another evaluation tools for self-evaluation.

Keeping the minutes of project meetings, questionnaires of project meetings preparedby the coordinating institution and interim evaluation reports submitted by the projectpartners are the internal evaluation activities to understand whether the project ismaking any progress so far and what might be the next steps. Collation of projectactivities to include curriculum, pupil activities and extended school activities.

Impact will be measured through pupil, teacher and where possible parent surveys.Impact will also be measured by analyzing work and activities planned and the actualwork produced.Evaluation will be continuous through the communication amongparticipating teachers, improving and expanding the planned activities, suggesting the

appropriate improvements as they may arise with the contributions of all participants.At each meeting of the project, the coordinator will remind the group of the objectivesof the project. There will always be a prior agenda, sent in advance, notes will be takenof the resolutions adopted, creating a document which will reflect the conclusions andproposals for improvements. Discussion will be held regarding each section and therewill be a review of progress and achievements. Future action to deal with obstaclesencountered will be adopted to fit the needs identified.

Surveys and self-assessments will be conducted at each joint meeting in order todiscuss the results as a group, creating graphics for a better understanding betweenthe educational community members of each country

The project's objectives will be displayed on the walls of each group or class and willencourage students to participate in the activities proposed.

DISSEMINATION AND USE OF RESULTS

An electronic newsletter would also be prepared in seven languages and will be spreadamong the schools, district provincial directorates and education centers in the partnercountries. There will be a space, accessible for the partners’ teams and pupils of participating schools to share the documents. Also we will give links to web-sourcesrelated to the project topics to be known by the other institutions.

The results of the work of the project questionnaires, reports, recommendations andfeedback of the pupils and partners will be made available to the project partnersthrough that web-space. The project meetings will be a very good forum for havingdiscussions with project members and sharing the results and experiences in thisproject with our European Colleagues. Accordingly, all the project partners will beresponsible for publicizing the project events in local and national media. So the

outcomes of our project enable to provide the mobility and exchange of informationamong people.

It would be amiable to expect the pupils and teachers seeing the outcome of ENIDRASactivities to share their experiences with their colleagues, friends and parents in theirown setting or the pupils involved in the project



The improvement of the environment and the care of the seas will be shared by all themembers through email, videoconferences, the blog and the website.

The materials produced will be used by teachers beyond the end of the project, sinceteaching on the same issues will continue in the following years and will also bedisseminated to other schools in partner countries through Web links, institutions andnational faculty organizations.

Dissemination through the press and television in the local communities will get theattention of society on the goals outlined in our project.Millions of European citizens live near the seas of Europe; they will be the aim of theoutreach efforts of our project through digital networks.

A unique badge for the project will be developed and will be placed in an easily visiblesite as a distinctively European emblem for participating schools; just as there willinclude participation in the celebration of Europe Day in May with a wide range ofactivities.

Specific attention will be given so that all manufactured products, incorporated designs

and communications, documents, folders, etc., comply with all the regulations that existin order to maintain a clear and concise visualization of the project.

6.- PARTICIPANTS . ACTIVITIES

MOVILITIES

Spain 24 mobilities 20.000 € 21 Teachers 286 PupilsNetherlands 12 mobilities 18.000 € 30 Teachers 472 PupilsFrance 24 mobilities 25.000 € 15 Teachers 287 Pupils

Germany 12 mobilities 18.000 € 20 Teachers 100 PupilsItaly 24 mobilities 20.000 € 94 Teachers 702 PupilsPoland 12 mobilities 15.000 € 56 Teachers 702 Pupils

No ParticipatingOrganization

Total number ofpupils/learners

Number ofteachers

Total ofparticipants

1 CEIP MAESTRO MANUELAPARCERO

286 21 307

2 CBS DE WISSEL 472 30 502

3 ECOLE JEAN MOULIN 287 15 302

4 KITA AM BLUMENACKER 100 20 120

5 DIREZIONE DIDATTICA “D.

ALIGHIERI” 702 94 796

6 SZKOŁA PODSTAWOWA NR

1 IM. JÓZEFA WYBICKIEGO702 56 758



MATERIALS

1.- SPAIN .- OCTOBER.- MANY SEAS AND ONE EUROPE

PowerPoint presentation. School and seasThe bulletin board

Build and disseminate the PetsTraveling pets ExpositionThe collection of each school (shells, corals, etc.).The Digital Photo AlbumA small dictionaryThe project websiteChristmas cards

2.- NETHERLANDS .- MARCH .- A SEA OF LIFE

An album with seafood recipesThe digital book of short stories: of the Sardine Enidras BLOGCrafts over the sea

3.- FRANCE.- MAY .- A SEA OF STORIES AND CULTURES

PowerPoint Presentation: The history, navigation, the boats.Europe Day ExhibitionCurricular teaching aids.Murals on the sea

Videoconferencing

4.- GERMANY .- OCT0BER .- A SEA OF EDUCATION

Multicultural Festival on the seaPowerPoint presentation on good mannersCollection of materials from the sea.

5.- ITALY .-MARCH .- A SEA OF LIGHT

Teaching JobsPresentation on various traditional gamesPowerPoint Presentation: Sport in the seaDiverse audiovisual material

6.- POLAND .-MAY .- A SEA OF MUSIC

Song of the seas of Europe,

European aquarium with the photos of students

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