Saturday, June 20, 2020
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Monday, June 15, 2020
AMAZING ETWINNING PROJECT "WATER".
AMAZING ETWINNING PROJECT "WATER".
I have to say that for me and my students this etwinning project has been a wonderful experience. My students have collaborated in this project with different topics about environment, they have done activities to get different aims, interests, ideas and academic needs. There has been an integration with the rest of the subjects such as science, music singing different traditional songs, literature interpreting different poems, English language has been used to communicate between cauntries as a common language and to carry out most activities, we have known the art and the culture of different European countries, their customs and traditions and part of their vocabulary. 
There has been a great communication between teachers through webinar periodically to share the topics that were going to be discussed or possible doubts that we might had about the project and we had a whatsapp group to have a greater connection between us and to help us. 
We have collaborated periodically on the TwinSpace, we have shared materials, results, dissemination activities an we have created international groups to work teachers and students in mixed groups.
Students have evaluated and voted on different activities such as the name of their groups, they have given their opinion on the different activities and questions. Their parents were aware of the realization of our project and they have collaborated in different activities, for example in taking pictures of the landscape and vegetation in our area or in recording different videos. Colleagues and the management team of my school have collaborated in the dissemination of the different activities carried out in our project "Water" through Facebook, regional newspapers, radio, instagram ... They also get all the media to be able to have a webinar in the class with the rest of partners. It was a pleasant surprise to see our colleagues with whom we were collaborating.
I must to say that during the stage of confinement due to the epidemic, we have been able to continue working on the project from home it has been very positive for the students and teachers because we have felt very closed in this difficult situation, we have been able to give each other some advices and encouragement with videos, activities and with different messages.
We have used innovative and interesting methods of teaching and learning in different foreign languages to develop pupils´key competences with new technologies. They have used Quizziz, Kahoot, mentimeter... We have created a common book, a common journal and a picture that was travelling around our different countries, we have recorded some videos, our students said some words in other foreign languages and our students have recited a common poem.
And the most important thing is that students have developed interculturality to improve tolerance and mutual understanding that it is very important for their lives.
Finally, I would like to say that it has been a pleasure to work with you in this interesting project.
My students and I will never forget this wonderful experience, this etwinning experience.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
I wanted to reward some of my students at the end of the project because especially these ones worked really hard. So, I prepared certificates for them as an evaluation of our project.
Monday, June 8, 2020
Thursday, June 4, 2020
INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS DAYS
I also would like to add my students' products to this blog which they created for International Awareness Days. Thanks to this eTwinning project they have turned into global citizens which I mean they don't only do something about national days or festivals but they also create many things for global issues. Below you can see some of them:
A Video about World Environment Day
https://youtu.be/lcr5I7rJJOA
A Video about Climate Day
A video about Global Warming
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Climate change
MY VISION OF THE PROJECT. ASSESMENT
This project "Water" has supposed an excellent opportunity to meet people of many countries an share our points of view. It allowed us to work in a interdisciplinar way, creating a common product which was not only the addition of individual jobs but the contribution of many stududents from different countries to reach a common goal. Many collaborative tasks were used such as the recording of common videos with a poem, the creation of a common book where all the information was shared and worked through Quizziz...
This way of working has been very useful for our students to be motivated, given that the communication was granted during all the project. Thus, we used regularly different platforms such as Whatsapp, mails, chatroom, videoconferences, games... to be connected. As a result, the students improved their management of new technologies and met new partners and countries.
For all this reason, I think that we have got very good result for our students, in many aspects: improvement of the language skills of our students, improvement of the use of new technologies, a bigger knowing about different countries and the meetign of new classmates all over the world.
Nothing more to say that it has been an amazing project, where I learnt a lot of things, shared my time con hardworking partners and I used a more motivating and innovative teaching method. I hope we can work next year together in a new project and meet ourselves personally, or even particiapate in an erasmus plus experience together.
Great job dear partners!! Fantastic experience!!
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Countries working in the project
Countries working on the project. Teachers and students from different countries came together. They worked on water and climate change. They created material on how to prevent climate change. They linked the project to the lesson topics.
Golden City, water
There is a gediz river next to our city. Gold was extracted from this river. The first gold coin was printed. It is believed that this river brought gold. Our city was called the gold city because of this. Let's protect our water resources.
Saturday, May 23, 2020
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
My Student's Essay With International Honourable Mention Award
Go Green
I
think that people take Mother Natures creations for granted. We all think that
the little things in life aren’t important, but they really are. For example:
trees. They aren’t really little, but most people don’t think about how
important they really are for us. People cut them down for different reasons
without thinking about the damage their doing. We must know natures importance
and try to stop polluting and damaging our world. Nature is constantly
changing, even before the dawn of humanity. From the breakup of Pangaea to the
extinction of dinosaurs, from the Sahara Pump to the Ice Age, Earth has
completely changed from what it was millions of years ago. The balance of Earth’s
atmosphere has been greatly damaged by emissions of chemical compounds, thereby
increasing the pace of climate change. Nature is not simply an unlimited store
of resources to serve humans. It is a combination of all living creatures and
plants, including soil, water and air that plants, animals and humans depend on
to survive. Humans quite frequently harm nature for there own benefit. You
don’t have to be a genius or a millionaire to save our planet, everyone can do their
bit in helping out. ‘Sustainable living’ means different things to different
people. In my opinion sustainable living means living in a heathy world between
earths limits and reducing our impacts on the Earth’s resources, which is
living more simply and taking care of nature so that it can take care of us. Oceans
are one of the most important part of our planet and we must appreciate them,
just like everything else. Oceans generate half the oxygen we breath and
contain more than 96% of the World’s water. We can reduce water pollution by not
pouring fat or oil down the sink or in the toilet pan, because they go into the
ocean and is very harmful. We can also recycle. Recycling is very important and
helps our World in many ways. By recycling your household items you
could reduce the amount of rubbish sent to landfills and also reduce
environmental impacts by saving the amount of energy saved in collecting and
dumping the trash. You should use more items made with recycled materials. For
example: instead of using different plastic bags each time you go shopping you
could buy an eco friendly bag and use that all the time. Another important part
of “Sustainable Living” is saving energy. There are many ways you could be
saving energy at home by using the new intelligent programmable heating that
can learn from the humans behaviour and can control the room temperature, so
that no energy is wasted. Another question I ask myself is what are countries
doing to be sustainable? Well I would like to elucidate it for you. Some
countries are doing their job perfunctory, when others and doing their job
scintillating. Countries should be; using as many recycled products as
possible, protecting water quality bye reducing fertilizer use and minimizing
the amount of road salt, reducing heat build up and improving air quality.
Unfortunately instead of doing these, some countries increase the amount of air
pollution by creating more factories.Trees, shrubs and turf remove smoke, dust
and other pollutants from the air. Buildings should also be sustainably
designed. Significant amounts of children in poor countries are suffering from
all of these. In order to try to prevent all of this we could start planting
vegetables in our school gardens and own backyards. That would minimize the
amount of harmful chemicals farmers use on plants. Thus I think we can make it
possible.
Ellis Kaya/ Marmaris Profesyonel Ä°lgim Koleji
My Student's Essay With International Honourable Mention Award
A
Good Future for Bad Past
Most countries in the world are in economic
crisis. Most are exposed to climate change. They are all trying to be much
better for their people. But there is something more important than these
problems. We should be together to overcome these problems. All countries
should try to help each other. Only this way we can end the problems.
There are many problems in the world that
we must solve. For example, some countries have very poor education. But why
developed countries don't help these countries for the way of education. Other
examples are the problems of Global Warming and Climate Change. Like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana,
Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Maldives, Nepal, Philippines, Tanzania, East Timor,
and Vietnam cannot protect themselves against global warming and climate change.
There are other problems like water scarcity or air pollution in these
countries to cope with.
We can stop these problems. If all
countries in the world work together against these global problems, we can
offer a better future to the next generations.
How? It is very easy. Developed countries
such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the Netherlands
can offer both financial assistance and educational help to underdeveloped
countries such as Afghanistan and Nepal. For example, a certain number of
students from underdeveloped countries can go to developed countries each year
and receive education. In this way, if
the student studying there starts to work there, it both provides tax to the
state and contributes to himself/herself.
In the Middle East, which is the most
important oil resource of the world, there are wars just because of money and this
affects all the countries in the world.
The correct usage of resources without
wasting also provides us a more sustainable future. Other countries, except the
United States and all the Eastern countries, are slowly consuming all their oil
and usable fuel. And that's why they start Foreign Trade. However, if people
become conscious and learn to use their oil more properly, it will help the
countries that have to buy it.
Agriculture in most countries is quite
scarce, hormones are added to fruits or vegetables. There are few places where
agriculture can be done because climate crisis increases.
Because of the climate crisis and global
warming, Arctic ice is melting, causing parts of Italy and especially Venice to
flood. The water in Venice increases by 1.48 centimetres every year. And if this
is not averted, Venice will be submerged by year of 2049.
In
India, China and countries like these, air pollution has skyrocketed. It is
hard to find fresh air , visibility is low. You can prevent this. The density
of exhaust fumes can be reduced and the use of perfume and deodorant can be
reset.
The world's problems do not end there, the
waste that ships release into the sea while swimming causes dozens of fish to
be poisoned and even killed. And when people eat these fish, they actually get
poisoned. There are dozens of undiscovered species of fish in the waters, and
we destroy them before we can even see them. And we have to stop it.
And all the countries in the world can
unite and do many things about it. Campaigns can be organized. They can unite
and stimulate people and, most importantly, create awareness.
As a result, there are dozens of reasons
and things for countries to unite and provide a more sustainable future for
young people and everyone. A better future means a better generation and a better
world.
Tuna Nazlı Durmaz/ Marmaris Profesyonel İlgim Koleji
My Student's Essay With International Honourable Mention Award
My
name is Meryem Ece and I am eleven years old. I live in a small town in Turkey.
Recently, I have seen some articles and I have watched some documentaries about
climate change. We are experiencing the worst climate ever experienced in the world.
Scientists can not predict what kind of climate it will be later. If we
continue to do what we are doing, all living things will be affected but the
humans will be the most miserable ones. I tought that if we want to do
something ,we must do our best.
I know, it is too late to change evertything
but we can try to change as much as we can. I think that a little change can
make big differences. I am in a group of students who have been trying to
change something in our school and at our homes. Maybe we won’t make a magic to
sweep climate change but everybody (our teachers,friends,parents) tries to help
us and improves our plans, I am sure that we will help nature.
My first plan is to sell something in
our school fair and with the money we earn, we will buy saplings. And we will
plant them.
Secondly, we spoke to our principal to put
recycle bins into our classes. We brought cardboard boxes into our classrooms
so that nobody could find an excuse not to throw them.
These are all for now, but I am sure
that we will do much more things like these. But,as I said before we cannot
change the most crucial things without large countries like China and the USA.
The earth has mostly damaged by these countries. On 1 April 2016, the United
States and China, which together represent almost 40% of global emissions,
issued a joint statement confirming that both countries would sign the Paris
Climate Agreement. On June 1, 2017, United States President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would cease the participation Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation.
Nobody
has the right to damage our world to earn money. You can earn money from
different ways but when you damage the earth, maybe you won’t and can’t reform
the nature as it was before.
Don’t be desperate. If we all want to
do something, we can do. All we need is support and an international plan.I
hope, we will have a healthy and a clean nature.
Meryem Ece Horoz/ Marmaris Profesyonel Ä°lgim Koleji
EVALUATION OF THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON WATER RESOURCES IN TERMS OF SELECTED EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES
EVALUATION OF THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON WATER RESOURCES
IN TERMS OF SELECTED EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES
Dr. Pelin Gençoğlu
pgencoglu@erciyes.edu.tr
(Hasan KARABACAK -Turkey )
Climatechangereferstothechangethatoccurred as a result of
manyyearsfromtheaverageclimatesituation in a regionalor global scale.
Thischangeoccurs in atmosphericevents. The main reasonforthis
is; Increasingthegreenhouseeffect of humanactivitiescauses global warming.
Climatechange; cooperationwith global warming. Thecause of
global warming is; is thegreenhouseeffect. Thegreenhouseeffect is theincrease
of thetemperaturevalue of thegreenhousegases in theatmosphere on theearth.
Climatechangethatoccursdueto
global warmingcausessocialandeconomicproblems, especiallytheenvironment. One of
theareaswherethiseffect is seen is waterresources. Theavailabilityandcontinuity
of waterresources has a veryimportantplace in keepinglivingthingsalive.
Forthisreason, studiesfortheprotection of waterresourcesareveryimportant.
Thewater in theworld is in
constantmotion. There is a watercycle. That; Available in solid, liquid,
gaseous form. Climatechangeaffectsthewatercyclenegatively. Drought, famine,
floods, decreasedsnowfallarethenegativeeffects of climatechange on
thewatercycle. As global warmingincreases, waterdemandwillincrease.
Thiswillcausewaterscarcity.
climatechange has causedthereduction of waterresources.
Glacierscontinuetomelt.
Watertemperatureincreasesduetoclimatechange.
Thereare global waterdemands.
Theamount of floodto global warming is constantlyincreasing.
Themostimportantcause of
climatechange is fossilfuels in particular.
Waterandthereforewaterresourcesarevital in ordertosurvive. Theimpact of
climatechange on waterresourcesmanifestsitselfthroughprecipitation.
Elementsthatdeterminethewaterresources of a country;
surfacerunoff, underground runoff, precipitationandevaporation.
Intheresearchconducted in 30
Europeanmembercountriesandcandidatecountries, theproblems of
countrieswiththesameclimatearethesame. Thisindicatesthatcountrieswiththesameclimatearesimilar
in terms of waterresources.
Depending on global warming; climatechange;
causesmanynegativeeffects on theenvironment. Thesedisadvantages:
The main problemsarisefromthethinning of theozonelayer, urban
andregionalairpollution, desertification, deterioration of soilquality,
decreasedfoodproduction, decreasedbiologicaldiversity, decreasedforests,
epidemicviruses, decreasedwaterresources.
Hasan KARABACAK – Teacher -Turkey
Monday, May 18, 2020
A WONDERFULL TRIP IN PROJECT WATER
I was so lucky to be part in this project. All teachers member of this project are great partners and I have enjoy every day working with them.
I have meet many friends and I have learn so much about them and and their work.
The project was very good detalied by administrators and I have enjoy a specially our common works
In one words for me this project will be: collaboration, because everything was be in great collaboration between partners.
my students have enjoy this project because they filled important to make so many things about environment. the have learn so much about climate change and the role of human in world.
With this project we have grow their awarness about environment and this is great.
We have done so many works in this project, but I'd like to show you some of them
PRESENTATION OF OUR CITY, TIRANA
https://www.ourboox.com/books/tirana-in-artwork/
PRESENTATION OF OUR COUNTRY ALBANIA
https://www.ourboox.com/books/my-country-albania/
OUR SCHOOL
WORKS IN PROJECT
HAPPY ETWINNING DAY
AN AMAZING eTWINNING PROJECT EXPERIENCE
An Amazing eTwinning Project Experience
As an English teacher , I always wanted to be part of an
international project and fortunately eTwinning platform has been making it
real for a long time for most teachers. Here, I would like to mention about our international eTwinning project- WATER.
Participant countries for the project are, Spain, Italy,
Albania, Romania and of course Turkey. The theme of the project is
environmental issues like global warming and climate change. I will not give
details about the project here of course. The aim here is just to come together
again with partner teachers and share our ideas in one platform. Below is my
impressions about the project.
If I describe the project in one word it would
be “ COLLABORATIVE”.
What I liked the most about the project is to see
the enthusiasm and positive change in my students. ( They raced with each other
to be more creative 😊) and they become more sensitive to
environmental issues)
The most important thing I learnt is the
importance of team work. ( You need to act together and communication plays an
important role in an international project)
I would like to add a few more things;
1.
Global Citizenship : Thanks to this project, we
learned to be global citizens with small steps for example by creating
something for Earth Day or World Water Day. We celebrated most of the international awareness days.
2.
Importance of e-safety: for each web 2.0 tool
we repeated e-safety rules.
3.
Importance of foreign language, actually
importance of learning English😊
T4. Taking care of the environment: My students
planted trees, flowers and they took
care of their own flowers in the classroom.
I am really glad to be a part of this awesome team. Thank you
Hasan, Ana, Ürün, Gloria,Eleonara,Donika,Maria and Francesca. I really would like twork with you again in other projects.
k Below I also added some
of my students’ tasks related to the project like posters,drawings,videos and the e-book (which I liked the most :) they worked on it collaboratively on Earth Day. ) I also added my students' essays about climate change on a seperate post. They received Honourable Mention Awards from TSL( Trust For Sustainable Living) which is a global education charity.
Here is the link of my students' e-book: https://www.storyjumper.com/book/read/81723455/5ea0549a803cc
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Friday, May 15, 2020
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