School information
- School name
- Centro de Educação Integral
- School year
- 2024-2025
- School website
- City
- São João da Madeira
- Country
- Portugal
- Sea basin
- Atlantic Ocean
- Region
- Coastal: <20 km from the sea
Project information
- Project name in native language
- Todos ligados pela água
- Starting date of the project
- End date of the project
- Level of education
- Primary school
- Project website
- Project contact
- Categories
- Ocean and Climate
Objectives:
● Developing students' active role in the sustainability of water resources.
● Foster a sense of responsibility for protecting aquatic ecosystems.
● Involve students in water conservation efforts.
● Improve literacy about oceans and the water available on the planet.
Activities:
● Build a story and charact about living beings that depend on water, freshwater species, marine species, human beings, other animals.
● Theatre demonstrations by pre-school students.
● Collect data on existing and already reported problems in relation to the water available on our planet. Over the months, in addition to online research, application of questionnaires and interviews, they will go to the places (rivers and beaches) where the impact is evident.
● Awareness-raising talks for families given by primary school students.
● Dissemination of the bad practice report by 2nd cycle students.
● Investigate what will be the good practices that each one can do in their role (at home, at school, in companies, on the street, ...)
● Workshops on good practice organised by the 3rd cycle students.
● Investigate the impact of local businesses on water, work to find out what existing solutions can help these businesses reduce the negative impact.
● Second-cycle students will investigate what are the reasons for water quality to be at risk. They will visit places where this poor quality is evident and follow the trail over the months to the sources of this negative impact.
● Awareness-raising activities for local businesses by secondary school students.
The methodology that will be used is Project-Based Learning, Collaborative Learning, STEM Learning; Outdoor Education, Game Based Learning, Student Centered Learning, Students from the age of 3 to secondary school will feel part of a bigger project and a key part of the final success.