Our Forests – Our Future

Putaan koulu

Putaan koulu

• a lower secondary• c. 50 teachers• C. 500 students• Back to our own school

building in Aug. 2015

Our Erasmus+ team

September 2014

• Bulletin boards in the teachers´ lounge and in the hallway

• Multimedia presentations: our school and out country

• Website: https://peda.net/tornio/peruskoulut/putaan-koulu-7-9/eff

• Logo contest• Mathematics in forest: measuring trees and timber

(age, hight , weight, thickness, volume etc)

Logo contest: our candidates

September

• Making wild food in home ecinomics eg. mushroom soup, berry pie, moose stew

September

• Mathematics in forest: measuring trees and timber (height, weight, age, thickness, volume)

October 2014

• Vistit to Aromatech factory • The Arctic Circle of Finnish Lapland may be

cold, but it is far from lifeless. This last wilderness of Europe is teeming with life: the clean rivers, forests and marshlands offer a resort for a plentiful flora, consisting of rarities and specialities not found anywhere else.

Aromatech

• Since the establishment of the company in 1991, Aromtech has focused on the research of Northern plant species in view of their value for human health and well-being. Dedicated work has resulted not only in new, richer sources of well-known bioactives, but also in completely new product concepts. Such trademarks as Omega7®, Membrasin® and Ribesin®, are recent examples of Aromtech’s nutraceutical products which offer targeted formulas with substantiated health effects. ArctiCare® a range of unique active ingredients for personal care, is continuously enriched by newly doscovered attributes of Plant

Aromatech

October

• Teachers´Forest Day in Keminmaa(organized by 4H) :2 teachers

Etc. Games you can play in a forest• Forest as a learning environment in Oulu: a

two-day workshop: 3 teachers (by Suomen metsäyhdistys – the Forest association in Finland)

• Starting the photo contest – the Spirit of the Forest

November

• Comparing the statistics about forest fires (mathematics)

• Dissemination: an article in a local newspaper about Erasmus+ and Nordplus+ in our school: http://www.pohjolansanomat.fi/Paikalliset/1194934561236/artikkeli/putaan%20koulun%20oppilaita%20lahtee%20reissuun.html

November

• Getting ready for the meeting in the Netherlands

The kick off meeting in Tilburg 16.-21.11.2014

Christmas cards

Visits to Stora Enso paper mills in Kemi

• The 8th graders visited Stora Enso paper mills in Kemi 1.-4.12.2014 (two groups a day