EXPECTED RESULTS

-          involvement of a large number of participants;

-          information materials;

-          education projects;

-          PowerPoint presentations;

-          articles published in school magazines;

-          dissemination of information with the help of local mass-media;

-          participation of a large number of guests;

-          improvement of cleanliness in classrooms and in school.

ACTIVITIES

Activity 1: And you can participate (November)

Activity 2: Experimental devices for the determination of physical quantities (November-December)

Activity 3: New and sky (Adventures in Space) (January-February)

Activity 4: Leave the earth to breathe! (March)

Activity 5: Recycle - And you can help the planet! (April)

Activity 6: Astronomy Day - visiting the observatory Amiral Vasile Urseanu - Bucharest (May)

Activity 7: The stock clock (June)

OBJECTIVES

-          stimulating students’ creativity;

-          awareness of the dangers generated by environment pollution;

-          promoting environment protection measures;

-          developing students’ civic spirit, group and individual initiative;

-       developing students’ ability to explore and investigate in order to identify solutions for environment problems;

-          forming a coherent scientific language;

-          modelling students’ aesthetic sense;

-          realising an exhibition with the devices built;

-          meeting representatives of environment protection institutions;

-          being aware of interdisciplinarity  of science and environment protection;

PURPOSE

-          To assert, know and stimulate students’ creative potential;

-          To stimulate students’ interest in recycling waste to useful objects;

-          To make students aware of the importance of keeping the environment clean;

-          To make people around aware of greening the surrounding environment;

-          To exploit recyclable materials in order to build experimental devices.

ARGUMENT

Through ecological education, children have to acquire knowledge, attitudes and motivation to act individually and in a team in order to solve problems related to environment protection. In this way students cultivate their love and respect for the surrounding world, they form attitudes of disapproval of those who break the regulations concerning environmental protection and cultivate their interest in promoting the idea of a healthy natural environment.   

            The student is helped to understand that people depend to a great extent on the natural environment where they live and that it is wise to protect it as well as possible.

            Education is of paramount importance in developing students’ intellectual and practical abilities and in forming healthy beliefs for environment protection. The major objective is to stimulate the child to perceive, know and master the surrounding environment. Nature is very beautiful yet mysterious. We cannot act against it; we must understand it, work with it and not against it. This is the reason why we try to encourage our students to build by themselves the devices necessary to explain different natural phenomena. And what is handier to use if not waste – plastic bottles, textiles, electronics and various packages in this way we wish to teach them not to throw away objects they no longer need, to keep their houses clean.

            By means of these experimental devices we wish to develop in our students the necessary abilities to identify viable solutions for environmental problems.