COMENIUS PARTNERSHIP LET´S CLEAN UP

EUROPE. VISITING BARBATE. January 2012

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C.E.I.P. FRANCISCO GINER DE LOS RÍOS

OUR VILLAGE: BARBATE

Keep School clean

Trafalgar Cape

Natural

Park

A view from the top

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Hello friends,

it is my turn to write something about this special event we have

celebrated at our school these days. When I´m writing this you have left and

suddenly school is more silent than used to be the last week. No doubt, it was

so different and special to share our time and our workplace with you that,

coming to reality again one has the sensation that we left something to do.

And it was so, for we couldn´t do the scheduled and we have even change

the places where we were going to celebrete some of the acts. It was the

weather fault., we couldn´t fight against the elements. Anyway we manage

ourselves to have a nice time.

As organizators of this visit we prepared the questionaire on energy as

we agreed in the first meeting in Sicily. We knew that energy is not usually

taught at primary levels but it is important to know the price environment

is paying cause the reliance our society has on non renewable energy

sources. We must be aware of the importance that for Earth has we change

this dependence of fuel and change habits and behaviors to achieve a

sustinaible development without degrade or endanger life in our blue

beautiful planet.

Thanks for being so nice partners. See you.

3 QUESTIONS ABOUT ENERGY

1. Have you ever used the word energy? Say different ways in which you use the

word energy.

(when you are tired to play and need some food to go on, when a toy doesn´t

work because runs out its battery, when dad´s car stopped because it needs

some gasoline to drive…)

2. What gives you energy to do all the activities you do everyday? (food)

3. What makes cars, lorries, planes, boats move? (Fuel)

4. What do you do to make your toy work again? (Changing batteries)

5. What makes a sailboat to move, a windmill to rotate? (The wind)

6. What makes the waterwheel turning? (The waterstream)

7. How do plants and trees make their own food? (underline the role of sunlights in

the process)

8. What is energy? (what makes things go perhaps may be more

comprenhensible than “the ability to work” for children)

9. How do we get the energy we use to make machines works, cars move, to heat

the water…? (petrol, gas, coal, electricity…)

10. Where does the electricity come from? How do we get it? (From power plants.

Burning fuel, gas, coal or from the sun, wind, waterstream…)

11. Which are some machines that use energy at home? What forms of energy?

12. What is the most powerfull energy source on Earth? (The sun. Without sunlight

nothing would exist)

13. In what ways does energy come? (light, heat, chemical, mechanical, sound,

colors, electrical…)

14. Energy doesn´t disappear when you used in a device: it just changes into

another form.

Find the energy input and output from a radio, a computer or a tv. What

gives the radio power? What do you hear, watch or both? What about a bulb?

15. Where do petrol, gas and coal come from? What are fossil fuels?

http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/fossilfuels.htm

(from the ground) (Are formed from de remains of living things trapped in pore

under the ground from prehistoric times)

16. Why aren´t fossil fuels the best choice for energy sources? (Burning can be bad

for environment, it is the main cause of global warm and climate change.

Beside this, it took millions of years to form and can run out, that´s because it is

more and more expensive….)

17. What are renewables energy? Signalize the main differences with fossil fuels.

(Clean. Not ending….)

18. What is nuclear energy? Is it renewable or non renewable? What can be the

consequences of using it? Look for examples of this danger.

19. How can I help prevent Climate Change? http://cooltheearth.org/

20. Look for information about energy used in your country: make graphics about

the percentage use of different energy sources: coal, petroleum, gas, nuclear,

solar, wind…. Collect the graphics from your project partners and compare with

yours.

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SOME OF THEM are

EXPERIMENTS.

Renewable energy

collage

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ENERGY is very important in our life: plants and trees need energy to make their feed. They get it from the sun. Animals get energy from food.

Cars, planes boats get energy from fuel.

Many devices at home need electricity to work. You can see how important energy is in our world.

We can get energy from renewable source: sun, wind, tidal, Earth heat. These are clean energy sources.

But Most of the energy we waste it is produced by burning fuel.

Burning fuel pollutes the air and it is the main cause of global warm. Besides this petrol is a non renewable energy source. So one day it will run out.

To Reduce consumption of non renewable energy source it is a priority.

LET´S CLEAN THE AIR WE BREATHE!

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1st. We made a questionarie on energy. 2nd. All of us and our partners schools answered the questions. 3rd We made e easy experiments or use books, computers, comic to get information to learn on energy. 4th We talked at the classroom about the questions on energy. 5th. We answered the questions with the help of the teachers. 6th. We prepare all the materials, experiments and decorations of our school . Our partners made some books with their answers to the questionarie.

Our friends bring some

presents from their countries

too: sweets, books, a picture and other gifts.

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Thrusday 24th. 9,30 h a.m. WELCOME - BIENVENIDOS – BENVENUTI – WITAMY – VITEJTE - HOSGELDINIZ

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Thursday 24th

Europe map filled with plastic

taps. It was made as

presentation of Comenius

Project.

Our partners visiting the

exposition we prepared on

energy.

Some experimental

artcraft made by 4º

pupils.

Real solar pannels and windturbine

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Children pay

attention at the techical

explanation about how

solar pannels

and windturbine works

10 Nice experiment made by the 2nd grade classes to

show how sunlight, after some time, clear up the

Colors of the thin cardboard and draw the shape of

the animals.

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Paella Onion

Tunna

What do you prefer

to eat?

I´m the one.

TherThere´s

headmaster

cake for

dessert!

ItIt

looks

like

good

Food is not only a

cultural question

but a time to share

and have fun all

together.

Having lunch a

traditional recipe of

our village at

school: “onioned

tunna

What ´s this?

And what

do I do

thinking in

Engllish?

13 PLANTING A TREE: A WAY TO SAY “SEE YOU SOON”

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The group

from Poland

with their

tree María “Coordinator”

The group from Sicily with their

tree

Our school tree

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Great idea to say goodbye to our

friends with a little “fiesta flamenca”.

Thanks to Juan, Finca El Abuelo

manager, who read our minds and

proposed this good idea. All of us

enjoyed it and even one of the italian

girls joined to the dance. It was

fun!

An italian student with

lot of art dancing

flamenco

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IN CADIZ

Visiting canned and salted

fish factory. Traditional

work Barbate.

List of participants Meeting in Spain. Barbate.

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ITALY TEACHERS

María Scarcipino Pattarello (Coordinator)

Giuseppe Paratore (Headmaster) Maria Bisicchia Maria Benfanti

Francesca Barbagallo

STUDENTS Andrea Ventura

Salvatore Diperna Ilaria Giardina

Alfio Ranno Matteo Messina Stimoli Federica

Greco Alice Chiarenza Daria

Cantarella Francesca

CZECH REPUBLIC TEACHERS

Stana Gotteltova Alex Kozak

STUDENTS

Monika Patrmanova Anna Stezkova

Katerina Hamplova Josef Kubr

POLAND

TEACHERS Agnieszka Adamus

Izabela Sroka (headmistress)

Dorota Grabowska (teacher)

STUDENTS Anna Dudek,

Angelina Kasztulska Paulina Piasecka Alev

TURKEY TEACHERS

Mustafa ÖZDEĞİRMENCİ Atila ATEŞCİ Cenk VAROL

Mustafa AYDIN Ayla ALTINTAŞ YILDIZ

Sema ÜNLÜ SAK ŞAHİN

STUDENTS Talha Berat COŞKUN

Arif Esat YILMAZ Deniz KALAYCI

And of course the

Staff, teachers and

students of

CEIP Francisco

Giner de los

Ríos de

Barbate.

Andalucía. SPAIN

Comenius Partnership Let´s Clean Up Europe

2012/2014

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