School information
- School name
- 5th Primary School of Heraklion Crete
- School year
- 2023-2024
- School website
- City
- Heraklion, Crete
- Country
- Greece
- Sea basin
- Mediterranean Sea
- Region
- Coastal: <20 km from the sea
Project information
- Project name in native language
- Οι παραλίες μας: καθαρές για μας, καθαρές για όλους
- Starting date of the project
- End date of the project
- Level of education
- Primary school
- Categories
- Healthy Ocean
Objectives: The objectives of the project are for the students to:
learn about sea pollution and the percentage of it in their area,
clean nearby sea coasts,
create a piece of art using litter they found,
create a song about it,
raise awareness of sea pollution and protection of marine life.
Αctivities: The students have already spotted the most polluted coasts near our city and have learned how long it takes every different kind of trash to dissolve in the sea.
In November the students and their teachers will go on a shore cleaning in the nearby sea coasts. They will collect all kind of trash, along with pebbles and drift wood. They will record the percentages of each type of garbage per hundred, procedure that will be repeated on May. Then, they will create bar graphs of pre-winter and pre-summer beach litter rates.
Using the thash they found, the students will expirement on which of these sink to the bottom of the ocean and which ones remain on the surface. With the help of Cretaquarium staff, students will learn about the travels of the journey of the garbage due to sea currents and develop a map of the hypothetical journey of the trash they have collected.
Afterwards, the students will seek information on the internet on how trash affect marin life and create a ppt presentation on that topic.
With the collaboration of the schools music teacher, the students will create a song about their experience. With the collaboration of the art teacher, students will create a piece of art using the garbage they found during their two coastal cleaning attempts. This piece of art will be donated and displayed in the Aquarium of Crete.
Approach: cooperative learning, project-based learning, culturally responsive teaching, blended learning, experiential learning