The main aim of this project is to create, design and write a photonovel describing some aspects of the pollution of the Baltic Sea. By building international teams from Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Denmark, 5 schools from the Baltic region will gather around the ecological situation of the Baltic Sea to raise their students' awareness of its contamination and possible solutions that could be taken to protect our sea from dying out.
Meeting in Berlin
From 12th to 18th November, 2017 the first project meeting of pupils and teachers took place in which our school had been involved. This project has the name “Inter-nation encounter to raise pollution and global warming awareness around the Baltic Sea“ and unites such countries as Germany, Denmark, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania. In Germany our gymnasium was represented by the following group of participants: Solovjova Julija(IIIa), Viktorova Alisa (Ib), Vairich Aleksandr (Ib), Pavliukovec Jekaterina (Id), Kolcova Veronika (Id), Diana Mineikiene (the Lithuanian teacher), Natalija Domnenko (the German teacher). We spent the whole week in the capital of Germany Berlin. It is possible to claim safely that the meeting brought to participants many positive emotions and unforgettable impressions. At the meeting the project logo was created, the problem of pollution of the Baltic Sea and modern ways of suspension of this harmful process was discussed. Participants of the meeting got acquainted with sights of Berlin, visited lessons at the German school and communicated with each other. Whatever was the project subject, the most important, perhaps, is a real-life human communication which comes not easily to everyone. Participation in the project – an opportunity to develop new qualities, to learn something new from the most different fields of knowledge, to check the knowledge of foreign languages, to find new friends.
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Learning, Teaching and Training activities during the meeting in Lithuania:
- Starting to collect ideas for the 1st chapter, „Key heroes” competition of the photonovel
- Work on the project in four groups: names of the key heroes for the photo novella (picture stories)
- 2 workshops (draw the Baltic Sea on the water with Ebru art; „Diamante poems”)
- Local project work: Volunteering activity for the cleaning of the Baltic seaside on the Curonian Spit
- Meeting with the staff of laboratory of environmental monitoring the Lithuan Baltic Sea coast (the Center of Marine Research)
- A Visit to the Lithuanian Sea Museum-Aquarium, Dolphinarium an excursion to the Curonian Spit (sea life)
- A game by Kahoot „What do you know about the Baltic sea?“
- A sightseeing trip to Nida and Juodkrante;
- Meeting with the Mayor;
- „Thanksgiving Day” – acquaintance with traditions of „Aitvaro” Gymnasium;
- Presentation of workshops’ results;
- Evaluation of the project on the eTwinning platform: a questionnaire
Volunteering activity “Clean the beach”
Personal participation in natural rescue actions and contact with the nature is the most actual method of the climate rescue
The cleaning of the beach in Klaipeda is one of several actions which all project participants have supported. Everybody feels well on the beach if the beach has a clean appearance.
The aim of the action expresses the motto „ Talk less and act more!“.
End product - The project participants could value the state of the beach in Klaipeda. They have also made her personal contribution to his cleaning and have collected some bags completely with garbage.
Workshop “Ebru Art”
“Ebru art“ is one of the oldest methods to draw amusing patterns on the water.
After the discussion of the big problems which are connected with the pollution of the Baltic Sea the project participants got the possibility to represent the Baltic Sea, nevertheless, very bright and with love. They have made it with the technology of drawing on the water.
The aim –to develop a deep connection with the nature and to wake up the wish to protect the nature.
End product - exhibition of drawings.
Link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pFG9Lm-7N7QGXgS4A5FqUi5Jk3AXNTSP
Workshop “Diamante poems”
“Diamante poems” is composition of poems about the Baltic Sea.
During the workshop has well succeeded the transference of the thoughts about the nature and about the problems linked with it on the emotional and verbal level.
The aim – to make the challenges of the environment protection and climate protection for young generation more significant
End product – haiku (poem collection)
https://drive.google.com/open?
Drawing main heroes for our photonovella
Together with the new school year, the international project is keeping on its activities.
From 16th to 22th September, 2018 project participants: Director I.F. Fedorova, German language teacher N. I. Domnenko and Lithuanian language and literature teacher Diana Mineikene with her students (Veronica Belyayeva, Mikhail Kulikov, Denis Lisovsky, Nikita Maltsov, Alice Victorova) visited Vroclaw (Poland), where the international meeting on the ERASMUS PLUS project "International encounter to raise pollution and global warning awareness around the Baltic Sea" was held in accordance with the plan.
The week was hot for the project participants in every sense of the word. The protracted summer was filled with warm days, and the organizers of the meeting offered a wide range of cognitive events: a visit to the smoothie site on the Sky Tower, which is at an altitude of almost 200 meters; Familiarity with the zoo, founded as early as the 19th century; A walk through the Japanese garden; Visit to "Hydrobolis" - a new museum in Wroclaw which is called the best mega-attraction of Europe where the variety of multimedia technologies, artistic installations, replicas and identical reproduced models serve a single purpose: showing water in different fascinating forms.
Read more: http://experttur.com/europe/poland/201601/megaatrakcion-hydropolis.html (water knowledge center,).
We also went up to the Table Mountains in the south-west of Poland, took part in a walk on the ship on the river Odré, conducted a study of water samples from the water bodies of the city and the water pipeline. An indelible impression was left by a fascinating tour of the old city where dwarves "settled" in a variety of places,.
Project participants are working on creating a photonovella (they took many photos to later use them in a photonovella).
On the first day of the meeting our students presented the first chapter of the photonovella. The project participants were also presented the illustrated and animated versions of the first chapter. The main participants of the meeting will continue the work started in Klaipeda on the creation of a photo-meeting about the tireless representatives of good and evil (Tidy and Shady) and their struggle to protect the ecology of the countries of the Baltic Sea region.
All planned activity was done. The week raced unnoticed. We are waiting for more meetings in Denmark and Estonia.
We thank all the project participants for their determination to change the world.
Action "DAROM"
Gymnasium “Aitvaro” (Klaipeda) joined the action "DAROM" on the occasion of the „World Cleanup Day“. On September 20th, at 12 p.m. the participants took hands in a live chain. With their appearance, clothes, posters, balloons, they expressed concerns related to the environmental problems, preservation of our land, oceans, air, wildlife... The participants then demonstrated their flashmob.
Lithuania took the initiative to become the world leader in this action and in 2020 is intending to organize such a flashmob in more than 150 countries.
This means that this year the Lithuanian schoolchildren will try to do it for the first time, and next year students in tens of thousands of schools around the world will follow this action.
MEETING IN ESTONIA
From 9th to 14th September, 2019 there was a meeting on the project “Inter-nation encounter to raise pollution and global warming awareness around the Baltic Sea” in Tallinn (Estonia).
During this meeting the participants studied the ecological situation in the region of each partner, got acquainted with the wealth of nature in the Museum of Nature Tallinn and in mixed groups took part in an interactive game-quest on the territory of the park adjacent to the museum, which helped them to further immerse themselves in the environmental situation of Estonia as one of the Baltic regions.
The project participants visited Lahemaa National Park. It is the perfect place to observe nature.
Lahemaa is one of Europe's most important forest reserves, home to many large mammals. It is a habitat of elks, boars, brown bears, lynxes, foxes and other wild animals.
The visit to Lahemaa National Park, located on the northern coast of Estonia, left a great impression.
During one creative workshop the participants of the project composed fairy tails reflecting the problems of the Baltic Sea, and drew posters on the content of the composed fairy tails, and also, working with a computer, created infographics related to the topic of the project.
On the other day, the project participants visited Tallinn's treatment facilities and learned a lot of important information about how much it is necessary to work to prevent the Baltic Sea from polluting human waste.
Throughout the week the project participants also worked on stage presentation of the idea of a comic book which will become the final product of the project. On the last day of the meeting, the participants of the project presented the results of their work. At the end of this presentation there were very sincere words addressed to the viewer asking to preserve the Baltic Sea.
The meeting was warm and useful and remembered by the participants of the project.
Еducational program "For Animal Safety in Smiltinе"
October 16, 2019 became memorable for the participants of the project and pupils of the 1b class. On this day they took part in the educational program "For Animal Safety in Smiltinе" - four cured seals were released in the Baltic Sea.
This spring, the Lithuanian Maritime Museum sheltered 16 weakened and wounded seals that were in a very difficult condition. The animals weighed no more than 13 kg and were effectively doomed to death. The released seals have special devices on them to monitor their movements.
Baltic grey seals are a rare endangered species listed in the red books of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Russia. These seals already live in the Baltic Sea for 10 000 years.
The Visiting AB “Klaipėdos vanduo” Dumpiai waste water treatment facility
The project participants visited AB “Klaipėdos vanduo” Dumpiai waste water treatment facility. They learned a lot of facts about the wastewater treatment plant.
This facility plays an important role in ensuring environmental protection of water bodies.
Living on the Baltic Sea coast, we care about its purity and try to learn as much as possible about how to protect it from the harmful effects of human activity.
National Visitor center of Preserved areas of Lithuania
The final event for the project participants and other students of the gymnasium was a visit to the „National Visitor center of Preserved areas of Lithuania“ in the capital of our country Vilnius.
The purpose of the center is to interest visitors in the national and regional parks, protected species of plants and animals, features of the landscape, to encourage independent travel and to discover the natural wealth of our country.
The exposition is not only interesting in terms of content, but also surprising in terms of visual solutions. The visitor feels as if he is surrounded by nature: meadows, birds, grasshoppers around. You can imagine being on a meadow or in a forest.
Each guest can get acquainted with the system of protected areas. Not everyone knows that Lithuania has 5 national, 30 regional parks, 3 state natural and 2 cultural reserves, about 300 reserves, more than 500 state protected natural heritage sites.
Any visitor of the exhibition can become an active participant who can touch, listen and feel.
The knowledge of the nature of its homeland, its problems and ways of salvation is the responsibility of the young generation. And this is a great advantage of the international projects which give an opportunity to get acquainted with such an important topic and to learn a lot of new and useful things.
Transnational Project Meeting
The final meeting on the project, which was attended only by teachers, took place in Berlin in early March 2020.
At this meeting, were summed up the results of the project, was started work on the preparation of the final report and were also discussed plans for the future. The results of the projects pleased all participants - pupils and teachers therefore he project participants decided to participate in the organization of the new project. This idea was made by the coordinators of the current project (Berlin).
The meeting was productive, warm and memorable.
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