PARTNERS

Rabia Erdem                                               Didem Çağan

Pınar EZEL                                                     Betül ERDOĞAN

 Nagihan Kesici

 Georgia Karabali                                      Aikaterini Aisopou       Ourania Mela                                                Georgia Tzani              Fotini Liassi

Ana Mugarra Martínez                                          

                                                       Anna Gold-Cywińska

 Predescu Janina     

TEACHER :  GEORGIA KARABALI

PROBLEM: Students use plastic water bottles

CHALLENGE: Use reusable water bottles (by Ana Mugarra)

According to the questionnaires, before the challenge, most students used single-use plastic water bottles and were unaware of the problems their use creates for the environment and for us. After the challenge, watching relevant videos and discussions, most use reusable bottles and the pleasant thing is that through the challenge, they learned relevant things and want to continue helping our planet.

Before starting the challenge, students anonymously completed a questionnaire regarding the use of water bottles. Then we watched videos about the environmental problems caused by the use of single-use plastics (The Problems with Single-use Plastics) and played a quiz based on what they watched and discussed for better consolidation and understanding of the problem.

Before the challenge, almost all students were using single use plastic bottles.

Filling a questionnaire after the challenge

Our students understood the value of every waste with this activity. They looked in amazement at the formation of soap from waste oil. They supported their families more in collecting waste oil.

Our students started to accumulate their waste oil at home. The accumulated oils were brought to the school. We made our organic soap using water, waste oil and sodium hydroxide. After 20 days of drying time, we were able to use our organic soaps. You can watch our soap making video by scanning the QR code.

TEACHER: ANA MUGARRA MARTÍNEZ  

PROBLEM : Sometimes there are too much rubbish in the secondary playground and too much noise in the corridors.

CHALLENGE: try to be cleaner and create teams to collect the rubbish left at the end of each school day. For the noise level speak softer indoors and make signs to remember the importance of avoiding noise (Recommended by Mela Ourania)

RESULTS AND EFFECTS: The students were speaking about the problem with the rubbish in the playground and they decided to collect it at the end of the school day. They also realized the importance of working in a proper noise level, so they put some signals both in the class and corridor.

ÖĞRETMEN : JANINA PREDESCU

SORUN :

CHALLENGE:

SONUÇLAR VE ETKİLER

TEACHER:Didem Çağan

PROBLEM:Students do not use recycling bins for their intended purpose

CHALLENGE:You can watch a video explaining the importance of recycling and choose your student who recycles the most as the student of the week(.Recommended by Betul Erdogan)

RESULTS AND EFFECTS:

TEACHER : Tzani Georgia

PROBLEM: Too much litter on the school playground

CHALLENGE:After school, you can pick up the garbage in the school yard.(Recommended by Pınar Ezel)

                TEACHER: PINAR EZEL 

                PROBLEM: Students do not try to produce less waste paper and do not save waste paper for recycling.

               CHALLENGE: You can collect paper for recycling. (Suggested by Aisopou Aikaterini)

               RESULTS AND EFFECTS

 Students became more conscious consumers by learning about the positive effects of recycling on the environment. They learned the importance of reducing paper waste, reusing waste and recycling. The activity helped create a sense of responsibility and pride in students upon completion. Students gained an understanding of sustainability. They are creating a healthier, more sustainable school environment with their choices.

We warned our classes not to waste unnecessary paper and not to tear pages out of our notebooks for a week. We collected waste paper for recycling. We used some of the collected waste paper as material in math class. Our students designed notebooks with the clean parts of the collected paper. Other waste papers were sent to centers to be recycled.

ÖĞRETMEN : NAGİHAN KESİCİ

SORUN :Students leave the taps running and waste water.

CHALLENGE:Create water detectives out of students to prevent wasting waterRecommended by Janina Predescu

SONUÇLAR VE ETKİLER

Water detectives, who were assigned to prevent unnecessary waste of water, raised awareness about water conservation in the school. Students understood how valuable water is. By increasing environmental awareness, we instilled responsibility in students and increased social participation.