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Climate-Change-Project
Ísland – Eistland – DanmörkCoop i E-twinning
• Motivation for starting up the project• Learning perspectives• Nordplus – fonds• Activities• Students present the ”Climate Change
Project”• Statistics on ”Empowering students in
collaboration”• The Climate Change video• Questions
The Climate Change ProjectAgenda
Climate – optional subject
• In the year 2009/2010 we had an optional subject at our school due to the ”Climate year” and COP 15 being held in Copenhagen
• The optional subject consisted of 32 students (13 years), who voluntarily wanted to focus on the climate change in an international perspective.
Learning perspectivs Climate-Change-Project
The optional subject has been based upon an international collaboration project with Estonia, Iceland and Denmark. We have called it : “The Climate Change Project”.
Through the collaboration we want the students to get an understanding for the climate changes in the three countries.
Make them see their own way of living in a larger perspective, and this way come up with ideas of how to reduce the emitting of CO2
Put the Climate Change on the agenda in the local communities.
Through the project we want to develop the student’s intercultural, language- and communication competences.
Nordplus• We applied for a mobility grand through
Nordplus and got tree x mobility – 3 x 30 students
• Denmark -> Iceland• Iceland -> Estonia *• Estonia -> Denmark • The project started in 2009 and our
application went through in 2010 - the project is still active
”Think Global – act Local”
”Think Global – act Local”
”Think Global – act Local”COP15
”Think Global – act Local”
”Think Global – act Local”
”Think Global – act Local”
Grunnskóli Vestmannaeyja: Climate-change-project / Eva S. Káradóttir
Heimasíðan
Empowering students in collaboration
I have asked 41 students from Estonia, Iceland and Denmark
what they think is most important in different
scenarios..
Students from Iceland, Estonia and Denmark
1. Denmark44% (18)
2. Iceland37% (15)
3. Estonia19% (8)
Activity rate when collaborating international..
Lower Same Higher0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
6 6
2
31
4
35
10
12 students = 30 % 12 students = 30 %
16 students = 40 %
Number of students
How does the following things make the teaching / learning at school interesting and thereby
makes you interested and active?
• When you are using media like blogs, wikis, Facebook..
• When you are collaborating with other countries• When you learn about a really exciting subject• When your work is project based
Activity in the different situations..
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
When using media like Facebook, blog, wiki..
1 1 4 1 2 6 7 8 7 3
Collaborating with other countries 0 1 0 0 2 3 6 11 8 9
Exciting subject 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 13 10 10
Project based 0 0 1 3 3 6 4 10 10 3
1
5
9
13
Num
ber o
f stu
dent
s
Activity scale
28=70 %
33=82,5%
23=57,5%
18=45 %
Have you worked voluntarily with the project from home?
Yes No
5=62,5% 3=37,5%
9=60%
6=40%
17=94%
1=6%
Estland Iceland Denmark
24,4 % total
75,6% total
Through your work on an international collaboration project have you voluntarily talked (through chat)to your collaboration partners from home about other things than the collaboration
subject?
No15%
Yes, but only about
the project
5%
Yes, and about other things too
80%
What do you think made your project a success?
Lear
ning
abou
t oth
er c
ount
ries
Lear
ning
abou
t oth
er o
ther
cult
ures
Get
teín
g a
new p
ersp
ectiv
e
Using
a fo
reign
lang
uage
act
ive w
hen.
.
Using
Faceb
ook,
wiki
s and
blog
s0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
4.8% 4.8% 4.8% 0.0% 4.9%7.3% 17.2% 7.3% 7.3% 9.7%
31.7%34.2%
17.0% 19.6%23.4%
39.0%34.2%
63.4%
31.7%36.6%
17.2% 9.6% 7.5%41.4%
25.4%
1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10
Mean: 6,6 Mean: 6,2 Mean: 6,7 Mean: 7,7 Mean: 6,5
Activity scale: 1=low, 10=high activity
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