Erasmus +: Spanish Mobility from 4th to 9th March 2019

Erasmus +: Spanish Mobility from 4^th to 9^th March 2019

As part of the Erasmus + Project, Agenda 2030: That’s our Challenge! We will participate in the 4th Mobility. During a week we will be doing many interesting activities and sharing our experiences at IES Clara Campoamor, Alaquàs (SPAIN).

Here you have different activities that we will do during the mobility:

 

- Welcome and breaking ice activities.

- Visit to the castle of Alaquàs.

- Workshops about the project.

- Global Goals (3 and 14) Presentations

- Visit to the Oceanogràfic, the largest aquarium in Europe.

- Alaquàs and Valencia city tour.

- Visit to the Albufera Natural Park.

- Farewell ceremony and dinner.

We wish you never forget this week!!

Save our Ocean

To #SaveOurOcean we must:

- End harmful fishing subsidies

- Stop destructive fishing practices

Together, we can achieve the #GlobalGoals

School Canteen: a healthy meeting point

We all know that we spend half of our every day in school, where healthy food is needed to keep us energetic, so our nutritional practice plays an important role there. Therefore, according to Goal 3: Good Health and Well Being and Goal 4: Quality Education, we arranged an interview with the lady owner of our school canteen in class. We had an interesting conversation with her answering our various questions about: best selling products, nutritional value, processed sugar ingredients, food packaging, cost and profit and student response towards diet habits.

It was a very useful and enlightening procedure having to do with one of the most famous and crowded meeting and “eating” points in school.

Photovoltaic Constructions in Motion

The Erasmus students of the Mathematics/Physics Club of our school were engaged in constructions aimed at understanding energy and its characteristics (conversion, transport, conservation, degradation) and energy consciousness (saving, use of renewable energy sources). Specifically, they created structures that are based on photovoltaic elements, such as small cars and helicopters made of recycled paper and wood. Students using gears, shafts, motors and wires made experiments, took decisions, collaborated and gave motion to their own constructions.

          This experiential learning was innovative, rewarding and enjoyable and, at the same time it served Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy and Goal 4: Quality education.

SOS: Save Water and Electricity!

Our Erasmus students took an action inside school that could teach us to start saving water and electricity in our every day practice. The best way is to get smart with how we use both of them. So, they wrote down and painted some effective slogans on “Water conservation”, as well as “Electricity conservation” and put them all around the school unit (classrooms, offices, corridors, laboratories, school yard).

The smart pictures with phrases that can be easily remembered helped the dissemination of the energy aim of Agenda 2030, especially Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 12: Responsible Production and Consumption and Goal 13: Climate action. The next step was to exhibit all the slogans on stands during an open school event, so their meaning was disseminated to our fellow citizens, too.

Shadow Theater: tradition vs innovation

The Erasmus students of the Literature Club and Math-e Physics Club organized a cross-thematic action on the Shadow Theater. Taking advantage of the talent of a pupil as a modern "karagiozis player" (the hero of the traditional greek shadow theater), we got to know this particular art both through the theoretical presentation and through the "performance" set up in the classroom. He used hand made figures and traditional acting technique, while presenting the history of this worldwide famous folk art (from China to Greece).

Since the Shadow Theater includes elements of Literature (theatrical texts, student improvisations of theatrical writing), Mathematics (construction of figures and scenery, proportions of shapes) and Physics (light-shadow, motion) is offered for the innovative cross-thematic approach we have successfully implemented, according to Goal 4: Quality education.

Open Event of our school: "Health and wellbeing for teenage students"

The open event entitled "Health and well-being for teenage students" was organized by our school in collaboration with the 2nd Department of Pathology of the General University Hospital of Ioannina and took place on 23rd January 2019 with great success and audience attendance.

The event was part of the Erasmus+ / KA2 "Agenda 2030: That's Our Challenge" program. The aim was to disseminate the objectives of the program to the general public and, in particular, Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing, Goal 4: Education and Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals.

The results of the projects regarding teenage health were presented, implemented by Erasmus pupils, under the supervision of members of the scientific staff of the Clinic. In particular, by making the somatometric measurements and analyzing the statistic data obtained, the students understood the connection of "physical literacy” with health and nutrition.

At the same time, student slogans on the sustainable development of Agenda 2030 were displayed in the exhibition area, while experiential actions were implemented by the students themselves, such as measuring pressure and calculating the Body Mass Index for the people who attended. Our students were distinguished for their collaborative spirit, interactive participation and excellent presentation.