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

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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?

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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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